Reconstruction
This organization was created to provide food, education, and legal aid to newly freed African Americans.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This act of racial terror was used to intimidate and control African Americans in the South.
What is lynching?
This African American scholar and activist introduced the concept of "double consciousness."
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This leader believed in economic self-sufficiency and vocational training as a path for Black progress.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
These laws were passed by Southern states to restrict the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This Black journalist and activist led a national campaign against lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
African Americans established these types of schools to educate children and adults despite segregation and funding shortages.
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)?
These laws were designed to limit Black political participation after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This book, written by W.E.B. Du Bois, introduced the idea of double consciousness.
What is The Souls of Black Folk?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This organization used violence and intimidation to prevent Black Americans from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Before the lynching of Thomas Moss, Ida B. Wells friends, said the following famous quote.
What is "Tell my people to go west, there is no justice here"
This form of tax was used to prevent Black citizens from voting by requiring a fee to cast a ballot. This method required Black voters to interpret complex legal documents before being allowed to vote, a test often graded unfairly.
What is a poll tax? What is a literacy test?
What is double consciousness?
"Double consciousness" describes how African Americans navigate being both Black and American in a society dominated by white perspectives.
This Supreme Court case established "separate but equal," allowing racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This organization was founded in 1909 to fight racial injustice and legal segregation.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This 1919 period of racial violence, where white mobs attacked Black communities across the country, was known by this name.
What is Red Summer?
This amendment, ratified in 1870, stated that the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This institution, founded by Booker T. Washington, trained African Americans in practical skills like farming and mechanics.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
The compromise that ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This form of resistance involved African Americans migrating out of the South to escape violence and find economic opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
This African American man was elected to the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction, becoming the first Black senator in U.S. history.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This clause allowed poor whites to vote even if they failed literacy tests or couldn't pay poll taxes, as long as their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction.
What are white primaries?
First Woman Millionaire
Who is Madam C. J. Walker