Causes & Beginnings
These were the 4 main causes of the American Civil War.
What is the economy, slavery, states’ rights, election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
This important proclamation in 1863 expanded the Union’s goals to include fighting against slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Amendment abolished slavery; African Americans could no longer be owned as property or forced to work without pay.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case in 1896 declared that separate was equal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
These were examples of non‑violent protest tactics used by the Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott, lunch counter sit-ins, March from Selma to Montgomery, March on Washington
South: plantation farming and slave labor focused on cash crops (cotton, tobacco, sugarcane). North: industry and factories.
What is how the Southern economy differed from the Northern economy before the Civil War.
Early in the war the Union’s main stated goal was to preserve what?
What was to preserve the Union?
This Amendment declared African Americans citizens and promised equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These type of laws limited many African American rights in the South when it came to voting, education, and or public life, some examples include (Poll taxes, literacy tests, segregation in schools and public places)
What was the Jim Crow Laws?
The purpose of this speech was to promote freedom and equality for African Americans (civil rights and equal treatment)
What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech."
What was secession?
Lincoln redefined national purpose: honoring the dead, calling for unity and equality, and connecting the war to a larger goal for democracy.
Why is Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address remembered as significant beyond battlefield victory?
This Amendment prohibited denying citizens the right to vote based on race & gave African American men the right to vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
This system included formerly enslaved people rented land and paid with a share of the crop; planters controlled contracts and prices, often trapping many in debt and poverty.
What was sharecropping?
This march in 1963 had thousands of children and students marched in Birmingham, Alabama; their participation showed national audiences the brutality of segregation and increased public sympathy and pressure for change.
What is the Children's March?
What was the important event in 1860 that greatly increased Southern fears and helped trigger secession.
This is the number of sentences to the of the most significant speeches in all of U.S. History
What is 10 sentences?
This group provided food, education, legal protection, and job assistance for African American men.
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The Court said the 14th Amendment was satisfied as long as separate facilities were “equal” — allowing segregation under “separate but equal.”
How did Plessy v. Ferguson used the 14th Amendment in its decision (what claim did the Court make about “separate” facilities?).
Churches provided organizing centers and moral leadership; newspapers raised awareness and spread information; HBCUs educated leaders and supported progress.
What is role that churches, newspapers, and HBCUs play in strengthening the African American community during the movement?
These are two reasons why slavery and economic differences together made compromise difficult between North and South.
What was slavery was central to the Southern economy while the North’s industrial economy did not rely on slavery; moral and political opposition in the North made compromises over slavery difficult; political representation and economic interests clashed.
By making the war about ending slavery discouraged foreign governments (like Britain or France) from recognizing or supporting the Confederacy, since supporting slavery would be politically costly.
How the change in Union goals after 1863 affected the international view of the war (how might it affect foreign governments deciding whether to support the Confederacy?
Elected African American officials represented African American interests in government, passed or supported laws protecting rights, and provided role models and political power for the community.
How did electing African American government officials after Reconstruction helped promote civil rights?
This organization created during the Jim Crow Era, they organized legal challenges, published awareness materials, and advocated for civil rights.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
This new mass medium helped expose the brutality faced by African Americans in the South to wider audiences?
What is the television (TV)?