Region of the U.S. that people were leaving during the Great Migration
What is the South?
100
These were laws passed in the 1860s in the South, designed to restrict the rights of African Americans
What are black codes?
100
This poet worked as a launderer, busboy, sailor, and many other jobs before he began writing.
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
These laws reinforced segregation
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
The year WWI ended
What is 1919?
200
Approximate number of people who migrated during the Great Migration from 1916-1970
What is more than 6 million people?
200
This phrase refers to the rebuilding of the South after the end of the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
200
This poet was born in Jamaica.
Who is Claude McKay?
200
This law required people to pay in order to vote
What is a poll tax?
200
The year the Great Depression started
What is 1929?
300
How many years long was the Great Migration?
What is 54 years?
300
This amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This author grew up in Eatonville, FL, one of the first incorporated African American towns in the South.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
300
These laws allowed people to vote even if they didn't pass the literacy test, but only if their fathers or grandfathers voted before Reconstruction.
What are grandfather clauses?
300
The year the Civil Rights Act was passed... that guaranteed full citizenship to African Americans and gave federal government powers to protect those rights
What is 1866?
400
city in New York where there was a resurgence of African American literature, art, and music
What is Harlem?
400
Although it was illegal to restrict someone from voting based on skin color, southern states restricted African American voters using these three methods...
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
400
This author wrote "Theme for English B".
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
These laws allowed officials to arrest unemployed African Americans.
What are the black codes?
400
The year the Freedman's Bureau was established
What is 1865?
500
Name of the hate group in the South that terrorized African Americans
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
This Supreme Court case reinforced the notion that segregation was fine, so long as it was "separate but equal"
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
500
This author wrote "If We Must Die"
Who is Claude McKay?
500
This tested potential voters' knowledge of the Constitution
What is a literacy test?
500
The year segregation laws were upheld in a landmark Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson