Laws
These controlled virtually every aspect of Black Americans' lives until they were overturned by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Amendments.
Black Codes
He was the first Republican president.
Abraham Lincoln
Black men formed these armed groups to defend their communities from white violence.
Militias
DuBois became the first African American PhD. graduate from this acclaimed university.
Harvard
Name given to the federal agency responsible for aiding formerly enslaved Americans.
Freedmen's Bureau
These specifically made it illegal for Black Americans to be actively working every moment of their waking lives.
Vagrancy laws
This party supported human enslavement and, later, the denial of rights to Freedmen.
Democrats
Six white supremacists were killed when they tried to disrupt a meeting of Black Republicans.
Cainhoy Riot
DuBois studied this social science, which informed his writings on Reconstruction.
Sociology
Sherman's "Field Order #15" is associated with which false promise?
40 acres and a mule
Prohibits "slavery and involuntary servitude"
13th Amendment
This was the more extreme wing of the Republican Party that wanted to harshly punish the Confederacy for the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
Famed abolitionist associated with this quote: "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box."
Frederick Douglass
Fill in the blank of this quote by W.E.B DuBois:
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again towards ______________."
Slavery
A biography of Frederick Douglass would be considered which type of source? And why?
Secondary, because it is written after the event and is based on the author's interpretation of other sources.
Created birthright citizenship and naturalization and extended legal protections to all citizens
14th Amendment
He undermined Reconstruction, becoming the first president to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
Black militias focused specifically on protecting voting rights
Union Leagues
According to DuBois, what was the main fear driving white violence?
Fear of losing jobs/ fear of losing money
Some historians refer to the American system of human enslavement with this term, which means that humans were treated like property.
Chattel slavery
Granted Black men the right to vote (suffrage)
15th Amendment
Reconstruction ended when he ordered the withdrawal of soldiers from the South.
Rutherford B. Hayes
This song about lynching remains one of the nation's most powerful protest songs.
Strange Fruit
This Black Georgia Republican lawmaker's testimony to Congress about his experience with the KKK could serve as evidence to support DuBois's claim about fear and mob violence.
Abram Colby
This Union general who later became President used his troops in a failed attempt to disarm militias following the Cainhoy Riot.
Ulysses S. Grant