Civil War
This President from Illinois delivered the Gettysburg Address and was elected to two terms before being assassinated.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Born in Great Barrington he was a key figure as part of the Niagra Movement and a founder of the NAACP.
Who is W. E. B. DuBois
The famous cultural rebirth of the 1920s is named after this New York City neighborhood, becoming the heart of African American art and literature.
What is Harlem?
Who is John Lewis?
What is Virginia?
Sworn in on April 15, 1865 after Lincoln's assassination this President presided over much of Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What is the Amenia Conference?
This mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Midwestern cities helped spark the cultural explosion of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
Named for two men, his father, and another religious leader he led the non-violent protests in Alabama and Georgia before being assassinated in Memphis Tennessee.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This Presidential Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed due process to all men.
What is the 14th Amendment?
His Tuskegee Method established schools which provided basic education and vocational training for African Americans
Who is Booker T Washington?
A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance he wrote poems including Harlem which were published in the Crisis
Who is Langston Hughes?
Known as the "Queen of Soul," she recorded the 1967 hit "Respect," which became an anthem for both women's empowerment and the civil rights movement.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This General surrendered at Appommatux after leading troops throughout the Civil War, notably at Gettysburg
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
This man was inaugurated to be president after the Corrupt Bargain of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Similar to slavery this economic system relied upon free labor and workers providing landowners with a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
The Charleston, a fast-paced dance craze that involved swinging the arms and kicking the legs, became the defining dance of this vibrant decade.
What are the 1920's or Roaring Twenties?
A theme for the Civil Rights Movement
We Shall Overcome
The first success for the North, this Battle fought in Sharpsburg, MD included the bloodiest day in American History
What is Antietam?
This federal organization worked for economic freedom and schools in the former confederacy
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
She worked as a sociologist and journalist documenting lynching across the South before moving to Chicago.
Who is Ida B Wells?
Known for his signature trumpet playing and gravelly voice, this "Satchmo" was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Before serving on the Supreme Court he argued on behalf of the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Who is Thurgood Marshall?