Name three changes with the Louisiana Constitution of 1879
Lessened the power of the governor, limited the power of the legislature, and eliminated integrated schools
Helped slaves escape to the North
Who was Harriet Tubman?
What was the convict lease system?
Companies leased out prisoners to work.
Born in the South during slavery.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Four key figures in the early Civil Rights Movement.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells
Who did Mary Church Terrell donate money to?
Black women
Name for people who farm on someone else's land in exchange for a portion of their crops.
Black Americans who moved out of the South after the Civil War.
What are exodusters?
Created the 10% Plan for Reconstruction
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Granted 160 acres of land to families with the requirement to farm the land for five years.
Homestead Act
Established the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
What was the purpose of the Tuskegee Institute
Trained Black students in trades and other valuable skills
What was the stance of the Niagara Movement?
Full political, civil, and social rights for Black Americans.
Believed in an academic education rather than skill.
W.E.B. Du Bois
What did Ida B. Wells write about?
Lynching in the South
First governing document of the U.S.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Name three changes with the Louisiana Constitution of 1868
Bill of Rights, right to vote for Black men, married women could own property, integrated schools
When someone tries to undo a decision made by the courts.
What is an appeal?
How did the NAACP fight for rights?
Legal action, lobbying, and publicity
Name three changes with the Louisiana Constitution of 1898
Methods of disenfranchisement, allowed non-unanimous juries for verdicts in felony cases, created road districts, and taxes for road maintenance
Terms of the Compromise of 1877. DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Reconstruction ends, federal troops will leave the South, southern states would accept Hayes as president, and the South would respect the rights of Black Americans
Name one example of the impacts of westward expansion on Native Americans.
Dawes Act, assimilation, reservation system, extermination of the buffalo, treaties
Led to the end of Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
Wrote the Talented Tenth
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
He was the winner of the presidential election with the Compromise of 1877.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?