This invention actually INCREASED slave labor in the South by processing the crop quickly allowing plantation owners to purchase more slaves to expand their farms.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The Presidents of the Union and Confederacy.
Who were Abraham Lincoln of the Union and Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy?
100
The main two reasons for reconstruction.
What are #1) Unite the states and #2) rebuild the South?
100
Plantation owners needed workers and freed slaves needed land. A portion of the harvest went to the owner. Most farmers were locked into a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
100
Outlawed school segregation.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
This term describes the voyage slaves took across the Atlantic Ocean. Many slaves died on this part of the trip.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
The Generals of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Who were Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army and Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army?
200
A racist hate group that opposes and intimidates minorities, races, and religions often with violence.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
200
Northern cities such as Chicago, New York, and Detroit invited African Americans to move North for better opportunities.
What was the Great Migration?
200
The type of protest four college students did when they tried to get served at a "white only" lunch counter.
What is a sit-in?
300
This law made it a crime to help a runaway slave?
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
The attack on the Union Army at Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC.
What event is considered the start of the Civil War?
300
The Freedmen's Bureau.
What organization helped recently freed slaves find jobs, education, and advice?
300
This started in New York City. Painters, authors, poets, singers, etc. positively changed the way African Americans saw themselves.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
300
Outlawed literacy tests, poll taxes, etc. that kept African Americans from registering to vote.
What are Voting Rights?
400
This black woman is known as the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad that helped fugitive slaves reach Canada.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
400
A northern abolitionist who became a HERO when his group raided Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
400
The Black Codes.
What southern legislation severely limited the rights of freed slaves?
400
A fictitious character in a minstrel show. He/she was an exaggerated, sterotypical Black character played by white actors with black painted faces. It came to be a derogatory remark.
Who was "Jim Crow"?
400
The two civil rights leaders. One was for non-violence and one rejected the idea of nonviolence. Both were assassinated.
Who are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X (in that order)?
500
The Supreme Court case declared that a slave was not a citizen and couldn't petition the court. Also, a slaveholder COULD travel to any state with his slave. Therefore, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was nullified.
What was the Dred Scott Case?
500
Calling for all Confederate slaves to be freed.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
500
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What amendments ended slavery; gave citizenship; and allowed voting rights to men (in that order)?
500
This Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was "separate and equal."
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
A controversial program to help minorities, including women, gain employment opportunities.