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Slavery and Revolutionary Era
Slave Resistance and Civil War
Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era
Great Migration/ Race Riots/ Harlem Renaissance
African American Activists
100
Which part of the 13 Colonies mainly had plantation slavery?
The Southern Colonies
100
What is the Underground Railroad?
Organized network of abolitionists and free blacks helping slaves escape to freedom
100
What amendment gives blacks the right to vote?
The 15th Amendment
100
What is the Great Migration?
When blacks move en mass from the South to the North in the early 1900s.
100
Why is Rosa Parks famous?
She refused to give up her seat to a white person on the bus.
200
What is an example of something a slave was punished for?
Running away, defying authority, not working fast enough
200
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who is against slavery
200
What is a sharecropper?
Someone who works on a plantation in order to earn part of a crop. They are forced to buy supplies on credit and constantly live in debt.
200
What are three reasons blacks moved north during the Great Migration?
Boll weevil kills cotton crop, to get away from segregation and lynchings, better jobs and schools
200
What type of laws did Martin Luther King advocate breaking?
Unjust laws
300
Who did African Americans fight for in the American Revolution?
Patriots and Loyalists
300
Did slave codes become more or less strict after slave rebellions in America?
More strict
300
What is a lynching?
To punish a person (usually by hanging) WITHOUT the authority of the law.
300
What are two causes of race riots?
Newspaper lies about black crime, unpunished crimes against blacks, economic competition, police inefficiency, racial prejudice
300
Who helped found the NAACP?
DuBois and Ida B. Wells
400
Complete the sentence: "All men are created equal with certain unalienable rights, that among these are...."
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
400
Name two causes of the Civil War
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, election of Lincoln, John Brown's Raid, Dred Scott Decision
400
What is an example of a Jim Crow law?
The schools for white children and the schools for Negro children shall be conducted separately
400
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An explosion of black culture (music, literature, art) in the 1920s
400
Who believed that African Americans should focus on getting a job and then earn the respect of whites to become equal?
Booker T. Washington
500
Who wrote the letter to Thomas Jefferson calling him a hypocrite?
Benjamin Banneker
500
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
It is a document that frees all slaves in the Confederate states.
500
What Supreme Court case makes Jim Crow laws LEGAL?
Plessy v. Ferguson
500
Why did DuBois support the Harlem Renaissance?
Because he thought it promoted a positive image of the New Negro
500
Who is a journalist who documented lynchings?
Ida B. Wells