The End of Reconstruction
What was better for Black Americans, the Reconstruction Era or the Post-Reconstruction Era?
What is the Reconstruction Era?
What group terrorized and killed formerly enslaved American people?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What is the practice of forcing people of different racial groups to live separately?
What is segregation?
Where would Southern University, New Orleans be?
(identify on map)
Who brought about change by focusing on the single topic of lynching?
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The Reconstruction Era ended in 1877 when Rutherford B. Hayes removed federal _______ from the South.
What are troops?
_____ _____ were laws that separated White and Black people.
What is Jim Crow?
Who was arrested and then found guilty for sitting in the "Whites Only" section of a train in Louisiana?
Who is Homer Plessy?
What is the only historically Black university system in the United States?
What is Southern University?
The ________ was later founded by Whites and Blacks, including Du Bois and Terrell, to fight for rights of Black Americans and became the nation’s most prominent civil rights organizations.
What is the NAACP?
The __________ _________ encouraged former enslaved people to continue farm work, which caused many Black people to work for their former slaveholders.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What clause included in the 1898 Louisiana Constitution protected poor and illiterate male Louisianans?
What is the grandfather clause?
What Supreme Court case ruled separate public facilities as constitutional?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The 2nd Morrill Land Grant Act's passing lead to the establishment of what type of colleges?
What are HBCU's?
Who believed Black American people deserved full political, civil, and social equality immediately?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Black people were often arrested for petty crimes, and after arrest, they were often made a part of the _______ _______ system.
What is one tactic used to deny African Americans the right to participate in elections in some states?
What is poll taxes/literacy test/grandfather clause?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation is acceptable under the U.S. constitution as long as the facilities were what?
What is separate but equal?
In 1862, Congress passed the ___________ to fund higher education which gave states grants of federal land.
What is the Morill Land Grant Act?
The ______ was created by Du Bois in 1905, worked for full political and civil rights for Black Americans.
What is the Niagara Movement?
______ ______ were laws aimed at Black people and restricted where they could live and how they might buy property, conduct a business, or move from place to place.
What are Black Codes?
Which came FIRST: Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws?
What are Black Codes?
"He shall be able to read and write, and shall demonstrate his ability to do so when he applies for registration..."
What is a Literacy Test?
The failure of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 led California to create its own legislation known as the _________.
What is the Dibble Civil Rights Act?
Who started the Tuskegee Institute to help Black people learn a skill or trade?
Who is Booker T. Washington?