Vocab
Movement
Trailblazers
Famous Laws
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100
This war was first over keeping the Union together.
What is the Civil War?
100
Movement for equal rights and social justice for African Americans?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
100
Original Fly Girls
Who are the Wasps?
100
Ratified in 1868, this amendment granted citizenship to all person's born or naturalized in the US, ensuring equal protection under the law. What amendment is this?
What is Amendment 14?
100
During the American Civil War, states such as Virginia, Georgia, and Mississippi. What term is often used to collectively refer to these Southern states that seceded from the north?
What are Confederates?
200
A person who wanted to end slavery?
What is an abolitionist?
200
Following the Civil War, this era aimed to rebuild the Southern states and address the challenges of integrating newly freed slaves into society. What is the name of the historical period that spanned from 1865 to 1877?
What is reconstruction?
200
American minister and leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and the 1960s?
Who is MLK Jr?
200
Instituted in the Southern United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these laws enforced racial segregation in public facilities and often perpetuated systemic discrimination. What is the collective name for these state and local statutes?
What are Jim Crowe Laws?
200
A presidential decree and executive order made by President Lincoln in 1863. It freed all the slaves in the Confederate states and territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This discriminatory practice, prevalent in the United States until the mid-20th century, enforced the separation of racial groups, particularly in public facilities, transportation, and education. What is the term for this systematic policy of racial division?
What is segregation?
300
In the early 20th century, this significant movement saw millions of African Americans leaving the Southern United States to seek better economic opportunities and escape racial discrimination. What is the name of this mass movement?
What is great migration?
300
Born into slavery this influential leader and educator founded Tuskegee Institute, emphasizing vocational training and practical skills for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington
300
Ratified in 1868, this amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishments for a crime.
What is Amendment 13?
300
unfair or prejudiced treatment of a person or group.
What is discrimination?
400
What does the acronym NAACP stand for, representing a prominent organization that has advocated for civil rights and equality since its founding in 1909?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
400
The movement formally began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in New York.
What is the Women's Rights Movement?
400
US Black nationalist leader and Muslim minister was active in the mid-20 century
What is Malcolm X?
400
Landmark case that established ruling of “separate but equal”
hint: In this case, a Black man sat in a train car for whites only. He did this intentionally to challenge segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
The first person to win two Nobel Prizes and the only person who has won the Nobel in two different sciences.
Who is Marie Curie?
500
The right to vote in political elections?
What is suffrage?
500
An important 1954 Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
As the first African American supreme Court justice, this legal giant successfully argued the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
This amendment gave American women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
The portion of the US that remained loyal to the federal government during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
600
The meaning of the term disenfranchise
What is to take away a legal right, especially the right to vote?
600
Promoted cutural pride and community programs.
What is the Black Power Movement?
600
Two leaders who sharply disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress.
Who are W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington?
600
Also known as the Recontruction Amendments?
What are the 13, 14 and 15th Amendments?
600
After the abolishment of slavery, Black men and women faced extreme challenges to their freedom right away. In the South, many states passed laws that fined or imprisoned freedmen who did not find work. Other state laws prohibited freedmen from assembling or required them to sign yearly labor contracts. Collectively, these laws were known as
What are The Black Codes?