Reconstruction
What is Reconstruction?
The period after the Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery
What does KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
What day does Juneteenth take place on and what does the holiday celebrate? (100 points per question)
Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19th. It is the day when enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, over 2 years after when they were actually emancipated under the Emancipation Proclamation.
Daily Double - What did the 14th Amendment do?
There are two parts to the 14th Amendment that you need to know for the test - if you can identify both, you earn an extra 200 points.
It established birthright citizenship, which gave formerly enslaved people citizenship.
It established the Equal Protection Clause, which required states to treat people equally.
What was the purpose of the KKK when it was established?
A secret society established after the Civil War to prevent African Americans from voting and preserve white power in the South.
During which decade were African Americans elected to political office after the Civil War?
1870s
What did the 15th Amendment do?
It gave Black men the right to vote.
The song "Strange Fruit" is a protest song which tried to bring awareness to an issue that affected mostly Black Americans. What issue was the song trying to bring awareness to?
Lynching
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
government agency founded during Reconstruction to help freedmen with education, finding jobs, negotiating fair contracts, and healthcare
What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Include the states it applied to and what it did in those states.
An order issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 which freed enslaved people in Confederate states (not in the entire U.S.)
Why was Emmett Till's murder also considered a lynching?
- It was done by a small mob of white men
- He had been accused of a crime but never went through the criminal legal system because he was killed by the mob before he could be brought to trial.
- He was Black and the men who killed him were white. They targeted him because of his race.
Why did the Compromise of 1877 bring an end to Reconstruction?
The Republicans agreed to take U.S. army troops out of the South and in exchange, Democrats agreed to give the Republican presidential candidate (Hayes) the election. The U.S. army troops were the only way that Black Americans in the South were protected from white Southerners and once they were gone, the reforms created by Reconstruction were taken away.
Describe one example of a Jim Crow law (250 points)
Examples will vary
What was Ida B. Wells most well known for?
Her work to bring awareness to the issue of lynching (anti-lynching journalist).