Constitutional Promises Unfulfilled
Abolished Slavery
13th Amendment
minstrel show character that depicted a happy slave and was the origin of the nickname for segregation laws
Jim Crow
The act of mob execution through hanging after being accused of a crime
Lynching
Requiring proof of reading writing of the law before voting is allowed
Literacy test
Anti-lynching writer from Memphis Tennessee
Ida B Wells
Granted citizenship to all former slaves
14th amendment
1914 film depicting the Klan as the heroes of the post Civil War era
The Birth of a Nation
A system that ties freed people to the land through constant debt
Sharecropping
Requiring proof of taxes paid before voting eligibility is secured
Poll tax
Response of millions of AA to the economic opportunities of the north and a rejection of the Jim Crow south
Great Migration
Established equal protection under the law and due process
14th amendment
System of labor that kept poor and mostly black people in debt
Sharecropping
disempowering someone politically
disenfranchisement
Terrorist organization that used the threat of violence and intimation to limit the economic and political power of African Americans
KKK
What was the enticement of moving north for AA during the great migration
jobs
established universal male suffrage
15th amendment
In what industries were manufacturers hiring AA workers in the north
Auto, steel, coal, meat-packing
Segregation by law
de Jure'
Which AA activist was born a slave and was a guest at the Roosevelt White House?
Washington
Wrote Up From Slavery
Booker T Washington
States circumvented this amendment by establishing poll taxes, literacy test, and the grandfather clause
15th amendment
Requiring proof that an ancestor voted in the 1860 election for eligibility
Grandfather clause
Segregation by practice
De Facto
Which AA activist was Harvard educated?
DuBois
Founder of the NAACP
WEB DuBois