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Antebellum period
Civil War and Reconstruction
Reconstruction, part II
Jim Crow
Twentieth Century
100
Edited the "North Star" newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
Enslaved African Americans who made it into Union lines.
What is contraband?
100
Replaced slavery.
What are black codes and sharecropping?
100
Decided "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
WPA, CCC and TVA
What are New Deal programs?
200
Edited the "Liberator" newspaper, mentored Douglass.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
First African American combat unit, fought with distinction at Fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment?
200
Northerners who went south to exploit the defeated Confederates.
Who were carpetbaggers?
200
Example of a law meant to disenfranchise African Americans.
What is the Grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy test?
200
Attempt to be patriotic and push civil rights during World War Two.
What is the Double V Campaign?
300
Admitted California as a free state, enforced a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Established to aid African American refugees after the war.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
Southerners who aided Reconstruction to get African Americans into politics.
Who were scalawags?
300
Beguiling jazz song about lynching.
What is Billie Holiday's, "Strange Fruit"?
300
Leading member of Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet".
Who was Mary McCleod Bethune?
400
Declared African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in court.
What is the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?
400
Opposed leniency for the former Confederates.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
400
The need for evidence to detain or arrest someone.
What is habeas corpus? (produce the body)
400
Publication of the NAACP
What is the "Crisis"?
400
First major civil rights victory in the Supreme Court that began the "movement".
What is Brown v. Board of Education? (1954)
500
Wrote a manifesto demanding justice for African Americans as envisioned by the Declaration of Independence.
Who was David Walker?
500
Moderate response to reconstruction.
What is Lincoln's 10 percent plan?
500
Johnson, Grant and Hayes
Who were the Reconstruction presidents?
500
Worst race riot in American history.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921.
500
Southern Christian leadership Conference
What is Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's civil rights organization?