Rights & Freedoms
What labor system(s) kept African Americans in a cycle of debt and poverty?
+100 if you name BOTH systems
What is sharecropping/tenant farming?
Who's presidency was plagued with corruption and dishonesty?
+100 for naming an example of corruption?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Examples of Corruption: The Whiskey Ring, Credit Mobilier Scandal, The Indian Ring, the Gould and Fisk Scandal
Name the Voice of the New South.
Who is Henry Grady?
What did Jim Crow Laws make legal?
What is (racial) segregation?
Fill in the Blank: Dubois believed in _____ and ______ resistance.
What is quick and active?
Fill in the Blank: To escape discrimination and violence in the South, some African Americans moved to _____ _____
What are Northern cities?
Name the Democrat nominee in the Election of 1876.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
Fill in the Blank: The South encouraged investment from the _____ to help rebuild and industrialize
What is the North?
Fill in the Blank: The Plessy decision set the precedent that “_____ ____ _____" was constitutional.
What is "separate but equal"?
Who was born into slavery in Virginia in 1856?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Name ALL Reconstruction Amendments AND the civil rights they provided.
What is the 13th Amendment (abolition), 14th Amendment (citizenship/equal protection), and the 15th Amendment (suffrage)?
Fill in the Blanks: In the Compromise of 1877, the Democrats sacrificed the _____ and Republicans sacrificed ______.
What is presidency and Reconstruction?
What two things needed to be diversified to create the New South?
What is agriculture and the economy?
What is the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote?
What is disenfranchisement?
According to DuBois, who should pursue college degrees to become leaders who would advocate for civil rights and equality?
Who is the Talented Tenth?
What did the Homestead Act aim to provide freedmen?
+100 for naming how much they provided
What is land (up to 80 acres)?
Which three states had disputed electoral votes in the Election of 1876?
What is Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina?
Who initially resisted industrialization in the New South?
Who are farmers and African Amercians?
When were Jim Crow laws overturned?
When is 1954?
Name the vocational school that trained Black workers, farmers, and teachers.
What was the Tuskegee Institute?
Who was the first African American senator?
Who is Hiram Revels?
What was a major financial crisis that caused a severe economic depression?
What is the Panic of 1873?
What was the most successful industry in the New South?
What is the textile production industry?
Who helped Homer Plessy deliberately break Louisiana's 1890 separate car law?
What is the Citizens’ Committee of New Orleans?
What did the NAACP use to file lawsuits and fight Jim Crow laws?
What is the 14th Amendment?