Who was the president during the Reconstruction Era?
Andrew Johnson
100
This court case set up Jim Crow and segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
100
This term refers to the growth of culture in African-American society in the 1920s.
Harlem Renaissance
100
Name 3 famous cities that were impacted due to the great migration.
New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, St. Louis
100
30 pushups!
1st group to 30 pushups
200
Name 2 famous Jazz Musicians from the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Cab Calloway
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
200
This major movement of African-Americans is a direct link to the flowering of art and music in the North.
The Great Migration
200
What does the KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan
200
What political leader said this quote?
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
W.E.B. DuBois
200
Who is the artist of this song?
Chuck Berry
300
Who was the only dissenter in the Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 court case?
Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan
300
Describe all 3 of the reconstruction amendments.
13th - ended slavery
14th - citizenship to all born in the U.S.
15th - Voting rights for all males regardless of race
300
Describe at least 3 ways African-Americans were disenfranchised after the earning the right to vote by the 15th Amendment.
Shotgun policy
KKK
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
300
Name 5 New Deal Programs
AAA
CCC
PWA
WPA
TVA
300
Who wrote the song, Strange Fruit?
Abel Meeropol
Billie Holiday
400
This President created the New Deal.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
400
What was the black cabinet?
A group of African-Americans who advised President FDR during the Great Depression and New Deal to alleviate discriminatory practices.
400
Who wrote the famous line..."What happens to a dream deferred?"
Langston Hughes
400
Describe 2 successes and 2 failures of the Freedmen's Bureau
- housing, land, education, food, fuel
- poor land, not enough agents, led to sharecropping,
400
Best Lombardo Compliment
Tell Lombardo he's the best teacher ever. Best Compliment wins.
500
This black politician created the NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
500
Define sharecropping
System of labor in which African-Americans worked the land and did not receive full pay.
500
Name three famous AA sports heroes from the early 1900s.
Jack Johnson
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Harlem Rens