Chapter 27 Convention of 1870
The Constitution of 1870 established a Poll Tax, how did this affect African Americans?
They could vote if they paid the tax. Most could not afford the payment.
What is segregation?
Who is separation of White and Blacks
Who was Harry Burn's in relations to his vote about women's suffrage?
He decided to vote yes based on his mothers note.
Why would men line up during the Great Depression?
to get a free meal from a soup kitchen because they had not money or job
During WWI, the Dupont plant at Old Hickory produced more of this than anywhere else in the world.
What is gunpowder?
to segregate White and Black Americans, what was the name of the laws?
What is Jim Crow Laws?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Was a hate group determined to keep Black people from having the same rights as White people.
Who was Anne Dallas Dudley?
She was a leader in suffrage association and fought to passage of the 19th Amendment.
Banks closed and people could not get their money
people lost their homes and had to move to shanty towns
Tennessee farmers lost money when crop prices fell
What is The Great Depression?
Park Field at Millington was used during WWI for this.
What is for pilot training?
How did they fund public education in Tennessee after the Constitution of 1870?
White and Black schools were separate and more money was spent on White Schools.
What denied basic freedoms to African Americans?
What is Black Codes?
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is allowing women the right to vote.
High levels of unemployment and low levels of economic activity
What is the Great Depression's impact on the economy?
Shot 25 Germans and took 139 prisoners of war and won Congressional Medal of Honor in WWI
Who is Alvin C. York?
A school for African American after the Civil War.
What is Fisk University?
What forced African Americans to use different public facilities than White students?
What is Jim Crow Laws?
President when the 19th Amendment was ratified?
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
paying farmers to produce fewer crops, providing emergency relief, building dams, providing income to the elderly, planting trees.
What is the actions of the New Deal?
born in Tennessee, served as Secretary of State for President Roosevelt, won the Nobel Peace Prize, famous for planning what became the United Nations after WWII.
Who is Corbell Hull?
Established schools for African Americans, Provided food, housing and medical aid, offered legal services, helped former slaves settle on land
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
What is Reconstruction?
What is rebuilding of the Southern States?
Perfect 36 - What is this in reference to?
Tennessee was the deciding vote! The final state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment.
Hired people to build dams to control floods and generate electricity
What is the TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority?