Reconstruction (1865-1877)
This government agency provided education, healthcare, and assistance to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The Compromise of 1877 ended this period of U.S. history.
What is Reconstruction?
The Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Great Migration refers to the movement of African Americans from the __ to the __.
What is the South to the North and West?
This was the main goal of Reconstruction.
What is reunite the country and protect the rights of formerly enslaved people?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
This presidential candidate won the election of 1876 after a disputed vote count.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Give two examples of facilities that were segregated under Jim Crow laws.
What are schools, water fountains, buses, restaurants, theaters, restrooms, etc.?
Name one push factor that made African Americans leave the South.
What is Jim Crow laws, racial violence, or lack of economic opportunity?
These laws, passed immediately after the Civil War, restricted Black freedoms before Jim Crow.
What are Black Codes?
This group used violence and intimidation to suppress Black political power after the Civil War.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Southern Democrats agreed to let Hayes become president in exchange for what?
What is the withdrawal of federal troops from the South?
Name one way Jim Crow laws limited Black voting rights.
What is a literacy test, poll tax, or grandfather clause?
Name one pull factor that attracted African Americans to the North.
What is job opportunities, higher wages, or better education?
The Great Migration took place over these six decades.
What are 1910 to 1970?
This system kept many Black farmers in economic hardship, making them dependent on white landowners.
What is sharecropping?
The Compromise of 1877 led to the rise of these discriminatory laws.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This Southern state passed a new constitution in 1895 that disenfranchised Black citizens.
What is South Carolina?
This cultural movement was a major result of the Great Migration and centered in Harlem, New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
In the 1960s, this type of protest involved Black and white activists sitting at segregated lunch counters to challenge Jim Crow laws.
What are sit-ins?
The three Reconstruction Amendments were the 13th, 14th, and 15th. What rights did the 14th and 15th Amendments guarantee?
What are citizenship and equal protection under the law (14th) and voting rights for Black men (15th)?
Name two consequences of the Compromise of 1877 for African Americans.
What are loss of political power and an increase in segregation and discrimination?
These were the two main effects of Jim Crow laws on daily life for African Americans.
What are economic limitations and constant fear/intimidation?
True or False: The North was free of racism and discrimination.
What is False?
These violent events often erupted in Northern cities due to racial tensions and job competition during the Great Migration.
What are race riots?