Laws that legalized segregation between blacks and whites.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
100
The abolishment of Slavery
What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?
100
The rebuilding of the national integration of Freedmen.
What was the Reconstruction era?
100
President John F. Kennedy
Which president was assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement?
100
It emancipated the slaves making them free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
A federal Law to help Freed slaves in the south during Reconstruction.
What did the Freedmen's Bureau accomplish?
200
Citizenship to all persons born in the United States
What did the 14th Amendment accomplish?
200
Civil War
What war ended Slavery?
200
President Abraham Lincoln
Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
Civil Rights Act.
What Act was created in 1964?
300
Right to vote regardless of race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Abraham Lincoln
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
1865-1877
Between what years did the reconstruction occur?
300
President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2,1964.
What president signed the Civil Rights Act?
300
The movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North
What was The Great Migration?
400
A law that states that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting
What is the Grandfather Clause?
400
Voting Rights Act. An act that prohibited literacy tests and polls taxes.
What was the 1965 act?
400
Andrew Johnson
Who was president during the Reconstruction Era?
400
Theodore Roosevelt
Guest: Booker T. Washington
Which president invited the first African American to attend an official dinner in the White House?
400
Governor Ross Barnett
Which governor said these words "No school will be integrated in Mississippi while i am your governor".
500
Laws that restricted African Americans' freedom by having them work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What were the Black codes?
500
Klu Klux Klan
What was the name of the group that was bent on preserving white supremacy?
HINT: they committed violence towards African American voters.
500
He withdrew the last federal troops from the south.
What did President Hayes do to advanced the ending of the Reconstruction?
500
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Which president was considered a racist and civil rights hero at the same time?