Acts of Legislation
This law prohibited passengers from entering the cars that were not for their race.
What is the Separate Car Act?
Federal agency, that helped people freed from slavery with basic needs, provided education and helped reunite families.
What is the Freedmens Bereau?
This individual emphasized the value of practical education, which would help Black men and women become vital parts of the economy.
Who is Booker T Washington?
The separation of the Black and White races...
What is Segregation?
Used to describe the many laws and customs that restricted and mistreated Black people for almost 100 years after the end of Reconstruction.
What is Jim Crow?
What did the 13th and 14th Amendments do?
Tactic in which All Black citizens had been removed from voting polls in southern states, giving them no say in politics
What is the White Primary?
Laws specifically aimed at Black people. They often restricted where Black people could live and how they might buy property, conduct a business, or move from place to place. (Pre Reconstruction and During)
What is Black Codes?
To take away a right, especially the right to vote is to...
What is disenfranchise?
This unfortunate requirement created an insurmountable financial obstacle for most Black citizens to vote
What are poll taxes?
Guaranteed suffrage to all MEN, born in the United States
What is the 15th Amendment?
An important event following the Election of 1876 that changed the landscape of African American life in the South
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This individual was a strong advocate for true equality between the races and one of the Founders of the NAACP
Who is WEB Dubois?
Traveling entertainments often featuring White actors wearing blackface makeup and portraying stereotypical Black characters
What is Minstrel Shows?
A bill that guaranteed all citizens, regardless of color, equal access to places such as hotels, theaters, schools, churches, and cemeteries...but was not enforced in the South...
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
1860s act that provided land grants for colleges and universities to be built and cultivated on
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
When the election cycle came around, this assessment was used to exclude less-educated Black Americans, and many immigrants, from voting
What are literacy test?
What are the 2 Louisiana land grant Universities?
What is LSU and Southern University A&M?
The US Supreme Court ruled this doctrine to be legal following the Plessy V. Ferguson case
What is "Separate But Equal"?
The time period before war was called...
What is the Antebellum Period?
What are the general differences between the Constitution of 1868 and 1879?
It enfranchised freed men. It disenfranchised ex-rebels. The constitution established integrated public schools, property rights of married women(1868)
It strengthened the power of the governor, and put limits on the legislature. Integrated schools ended. Parish courts were abolished, and an intermediate appellate court established, restricted Black Americans progress (1879)
What happended following the passage of the LA Constitution of 1898?
What is dramatically disenfranchising both Black and poor White voters, which dropped the voting registration numbers?
Reconstruction saw the birth of a terrorist organization and the associates of a former regime, name both!
What is the Ku Klux Klan and Former Confederates/Southern Democrats?
In your own words, what was the Grandfather Clause?
It allowed people whose Grandfather voted before the 15th Amendment was passed, vote without paying a poll tax and/or passing a literacy test.
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?