Reconstruction
This period after the Civil War aimed to rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This case declared "separate but equal" in schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This document outlines the rights and responsibilities of citizens in North Carolina.
What is the North Carolina Constitution?
He was the president during Reconstruction and created a plan to reunite the country.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case approved busing to achieve school desegregation in Charlotte.
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg?
The branch of government responsible for creating laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This civil rights leader worked to desegregate schools and was one of the first Black students at UNC.
Who is Floyd McKissick?
This system allowed freed slaves and poor whites to farm land in exchange for a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
He was denied admission to UNC Law School because of segregation and fought for his rights in court.
Who is Floyd McKissick?
These are freedoms guaranteed to all citizens, like free speech and religion.
What are rights?
This abolitionist and writer fought for equal rights during Reconstruction.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This amendment granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The legal term for treating people differently based on race, which these cases aimed to end.
What is segregation?
Responsibilities include obeying laws and doing this to have a say in government.
What is voting?
The African American educator who helped improve schools during Reconstruction.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
These military districts were created to help enforce Reconstruction laws in the South.
What are Reconstruction military districts?
The year the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education.
What is 1954?
The part of the North Carolina Constitution that lists individual rights.
What is the Declaration of Rights?
She refused to give up her bus seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?