Famous Figures
Who abolished slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Segregation was required by ____for most southern states.
Law
True or false. Many white Southerners did not support/like the actions of the Freedman's Bureau.
True
What did the Separate Car Act do?
It separated Blacks and Whites in a supposedly equal manner when on public trains.
What year did Lincoln give the Emancipation Proclamation?
1863
Who formally started Reconstruction?
Ulysses S. Grant
Where were most states that had Segregation Laws?
The South and some Western states.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Constitutional Amendment that ended slavery
What law did Louisiana pass in 1890?
The Separate Car Act
In what year did the Civil War end and the Reconstruction era begin?
1865
What president removed US troops from the South and formally ended Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
How were White facilities different from Black facilities for the most part?
Generally, facilities for White people were much better maintained and higher quality.
What is sharecropping?
Share cropping is renting land and supplies for farming in exchange for a share of the overall sale of the crop.
What was the outcome of the Plessy vs; Ferguson case.
The outcome was the opposite of what Plessy wanted: it reinforced segregation laws.
In what year did the Reconstruction Era end?
1877
What famous abolitionist also advocated for equality and full citizenship for black people after the Civil War ended?
Frederick Douglass
What was the informal name of segregation laws?
Jim Crow Laws
During Reconstruction, what was the reason Africans Americans traveled to the North?
To look for factory jobs.
What group was Homer Plessy working with?
Citizens’ Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law
In what year did Brown vs. Board of Education begin to end the legal segregation of Schools throughout the US?
1954
Who was the leader of the Freedman’s Bureau?
Major General Oliver Otis Howard
What case made it Constitutional legal for states to pass and uphold segregation laws?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
When did reconstruction start and end?
1865 - 1877
What amendments did they argue the Separate Car Act violated?
They argued it violated the 14th and 13th amendments.
In what year was the Civil Rights Act passed, formally ending segregation laws in the US?
1964