Vocabulary
The right to vote
Suffarage
Why did African Americans face segregation
Jim Crow Laws
What Violent practice did Ida B. Wells try to end
Women rights to vote
a person who supports extending the right to vote, especially to women
Suffaragist
the killing of a person by a mob, often by hanging
Lynching
How were African Americans affected in their daily life?
They faced segregation in public (water fountains,
bathrooms, restaurants, public transportation) because of
Jim Crow laws
Which early Civil Rights leader was considered an accommodationist?
Booker T. Washington
The deprivation of the right to vote
Political Disenfranchisement
compromises or adapts to the attitudes of someone else
Accommodation
What happens to the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction is over?
Rights of African Americans will be taken away.
How did the 1898 Louisiana Constitution affect the lives of African Americans?
Took away voting rights and allowed for laws to be put in
place that segregated the races
Look at the circled areas A, B, and C in the political cartoon. What do they tell you about African American voting rights in the south?
The circled areas show that African Americans faced
violence at the polls when trying to exercise their right to vote.
restricted the freedom of African Americans and required separate-but-equal public facilities for whites and for blacks
Jim Crow Laws
How were African American voting rights violated during the Jim Crow Era?
Through poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
What Reconstruction Amendment is Justice Harlan referring to " . . . the statute of Louisiana is inconsistent with the personal liberty of citizens, white and black, in that state, and hostile to both the spirit and letter of the constitution of the United States."
14th amendment
Which Civil Rights leaders also worked to get women the right to vote?
Ida B. Wells
Explain the events of the Presidential Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877. Include the results of the 1876 election and the terms of the Compromise of 1877.
It was unclear as to who won the election of 1876. In the Compromise of
1877, HAYES was given the presidency if he agreed to remove federal
troops from the South (which essentially ended Reconstruction)
What are the two purposes of HBCUs?
They have advanced social and racial equality in
education. They have produced African American
leaders in all types of fields.
How did Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois differ in how to gain political equality for African Americans?
Washington wanted African Americans to pursue
educational and economic opportunities while Du Bois
wanted African American leaders to encourage
political change.