Important Years
What Year did the U.S. begin?
1776
What is the main reason the transatlatic slave trade started?
For enslavers to get money and power
What was the root cause of the Civil War?
slavery
*South wanted to keep slavery
Reconstruction happened after what event?
The Civil War
What does segregation mean?What does integration mean?
Segregation= separated by race
Integrated= races together
What years were the Civil Rights Movement?
1950s-60s
What year did slavery end?
1865
The Declaration of Independence is a document that said…
The colonists were separating from the British
What did the Abolitionist movement want to do?
To end slavery
What years was Reconstruction?
1865-1877
When was the Jim Crow Era?
1877-1960s
What was the main goal of the Civil Rights Movement?
End segregation under law and get equal treatment
What year were enslaved people first brought to the U.S.?
1619
What was the middle passage?
After the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the South…
Left the U.S. and formed the Confederacy
What was a SUCCESS of Reconstruction?
13th, 14th, 15th amendment
Black political power
Majority Black lawmakers in South Carolina (pass laws for fair taxes, public schools, etc.)
Some gains in land
Reuniting families
What and where were Jim Crow Laws?
Enforced segregation in the South
What was the end result of the Civil Rights Movement?
Segregation was made illegal and laws were passed to stop discrimination
What year did segregation end under law?
1954 (Brown v. Board of Education!)
What is the Constitution?
Document that sets up the U.S. government and our rights
What years was the Civil War?
1861-1865
What was 40 Acres and a Mule?
Land given by gov. To African Americans in South- then taken away
In 1896, this supreme court case said “separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
What did the Black Panther fight for?
To help poor people of all races
What year did the slave trade end in America?
1808
In what way was the Constitution pro-slavery?
It said the slave trade could not end until 1808
It made sure slaves who ran away got returned to their masters
In what way was the Nat Turner Rebellion a success?
It likely helped slavery end faster
It made people discuss the cruelty of slavery
*Nat Turner and others were killed after
What was sharecropping?
Job very similar to slavery- would be stuck in job due to debt
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) decided that…
Segregation in schools was not allowed
What types of actions did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee use?
Voter Registration
Sit-Ins
What year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
1955
How did the Europeans try to justify slavery?
By saying Africans were “savages” so they had to be saved by Europeans
What were the two sides of the Civil War (say both names)? What was each side fighting for? (include how one side changed what it was fighting for)
SOUTH/ Confederacy: Fought to keep slavery and create a separate country where slavery would be allowed
NORTH/ Union: At first were fighting to keep the country together, eventually they were fighting to end slavery
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? (200 points each)
13th= end slavery
14th= anyone born in U.S. is a CITIZEN
(African Americans now citizens)
15th= can't stop someone from VOTING based on race
(African American men could vote)
What was a method that was used to segregate neighborhoods? *say it's name and explain it
*many options
- Redlining: creating maps and deciding what areas could get home loans, areas with people of color were red and couldn't get loans. Wealth not passed down.
- Contract Buying/Selling: African Americans couldn't get home loans and then would get them from scammers who would put them in unfair contracts and when they missed a payment they would be forced to move.
Which group really helped the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed?
The Women’s Political Council (WPC)