The enslavement of African Americans into forced labor without any pay. if one did not work he would be punished.
What is slavery?
100
A plan that provided food, medical care, "40 acres and a mule," and education- free public schools.
What is freedman's bureau?
100
laws,(tests and tax) that didn't apply to any man whose father or grandfather could vote on 1/1/1867.
What is the Grandfather Clause
100
Equal protection under the law
What is the 14th amendment
100
A supreme court case that outlawed separate schools for blacks and whites.
What is brown vs. board of ed.
200
It outlawed slavery in all the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Laws passed in the south to control their former slaves.
What is black codes?
200
A special tax made by the south to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote. If they could not pay, they could not vote.
What is poll tax
200
a secret society, (wore long, hooded robes) that threatened black voters and officeholders with beating, tarring and feathering, and murder.
What is the KKK?
200
A black man who fought for civil rights. He gave his famous speech at the Lincoln memorial in D.C.
What is Martin Luther King
300
a crop usually grown for mass sale.
What is a cash crop?
300
When white landowners allowed tenants to use their land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (usually 1/3 or 1/2 of tenants' crops)
What is sharecropping?
300
laws that segregated blacks from whites in public. (water fountains, restrooms, and restaurants were all segregated.)
What is the Jim Crow Laws?
300
A law that covers many areas of discrimination, most notably voting rights and segregation.
What is the civil rights act of 1964?
300
He helped shape black Muslim power. He was followed by many people.
What is Malcolm X?
400
the place that slavery started in
What is Virginia?
400
the separation of blacks from whites in public.
What is segregation?
400
a law that outlawed discriminatory acts in the U.S.
What is the voting rights act?
400
the rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have, the right to vote or to receive fair treatment from the law.
What is civil rights?
400
A Woman who did not get up when a white man asked her to move to the back of the bus
What is Rosa Parks?
500
A former slave who sued for freedom after his master died.
What is Dred Scott?
500
the hanging of African Americans.
What is lynching?
500
gave African american men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
500
not giving equal rights to someone
What is a violation of civil rights?
500
When people of all races marched for jobs and freedom. Many were arrested on the way. M.L.K. gave his speech at the end of the march at the Lincoln memorial.