Reconstruction
Reconstruction and beyond
20th Century BLACK HISTORY
BLACK Women's HISTORY
Miscellaneous (All units)
100
This Amendment officially abolished slavery when ratified in 1865.
13th Amendment
100
After Sherman's orders were overturned, freed people were evicted from their land and had to resort to this, unfair type of farm system in order to survive.
Sharecropping
100
This author of the New Negro Movement advocated for African Americans to return to their home continent with his "Back to Africa" campaign
Marcus Garvey
100
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
100
Name 2 of Africa's 5 climate zones
Rainforest
Grassland (Savannah)
Desert
Semi-arid (sahel)
Mediterraean
200
This Amendment granted citizenship to African Americans and established equal protection for all, but this second part was overturned and avoided by later Supreme Court cases.
14th Amendment
200
This is what HBCU stands for
Historically Black College and University
200
The time period between 1917 and 1921 punctuated by race riots and massacres is also known as
The Red Summer
200
Black female singer of the Harlem Renaissance who famously sang "Strange Fruit"
Billie Holiday
200
Story tellers, musicians, and history-keepers in traditional African communities responsible for keeping the culture alive through oral tradition
griots
300
This white supremacist organization was founded in 1865, during Reconstruction in the devastated South, by men opposed to the Reconstruction efforts
The Ku Klux Klan
300
One major positive effect of the 15th Amendment in the South was...
Over 2,000 Black men were elected to some kind of local, county, state, or federal office through the power of the vote.
300
The Greenwood district in Tulsa, destroyed in the massacre in 1921, is better known as
Black Wall Street
300
Singer, dancer, and actress of the Harlem Renaissance known for her famous "Banana Dance". She moved to France and became a French citizen after facing discrimination in the US
Josephine Baker
300
Name 3 Kingdoms of Medieval Africa
Mali
Nubia/Kush
Egypt
Aksum
Songhai
Ghana
Axum
Ethiopia
Ashanti
400
This Amendment secured Black men the right to vote (for a while).
15th Amendment
400
This Supreme Court case approved of state laws that segregated Black and white folks in public spaces.
Plessy v. Ferguson
400
Booker T. Washington's uplift strategy was primarily focused on...
African Americans remaining in the South and learning a trade to gain economic independence.
400
This Black writer documented African American culture and lunguistic expression, especially throughthe use of Black vernacular.
Zora Neale Hurston
400
How was capoeira a form of resistance against enslavement in Brazil
Afro Brazilians kept the instruments, music and call and response of Africa alive through capoeira. They disguised martial arts as dance in an act of defiance
500
Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former Black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War, this organization provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.
The Freedmen's Bureau
500
One unfortunate result of the post-Reconstruction times in the South was the criminalization of almost everything, turning minor offenses or debt into felonies with fines. This system would become known as....
Convict Leasing
500
DuBois's uplift strategy included
higher education, civil rights, and political participation
500
This actor and musician was the first African American to star in her own TV show in 1939.
Ethel Waters
500
Songs sung by enslaved African americans that usually held messages about the hope of eventually being free. these songs eventually led to the creation of gospel music
Spirituals