Black Codes & Reconstruction
This type of law fined freedmen for unemployment and targeted them after the Civil War.
Answer: What is a vagrancy law?
Ida B. Wells used this method to expose lynching.
Answer: What is journalism?
This leader promoted industrial education and economic self-sufficiency in the Atlanta Compromise.
Answer: Who is Booker T. Washington?
HBCUs were established primarily because of this condition in higher education.
Answer: What is segregation and discrimination?
Jim Crow laws did this to public spaces.
Answer: What is segregate them?
African Americans migrated North primarily to escape this Southern system.
Answer: What is Jim Crow and racial violence?
Which of the following best describes Du Bois’s concept of the “color line”?
a. A literal border between North and South
b. Economic class divisions
c. The global problem of racial segregation and discrimination
d. A voting restriction
c. The global problem of racial segregation and discrimination
The main goal of Black Codes was to do this to African Americans’ legal and economic freedom.
Answer: What is limit rights and opportunities?
The motive behind many lynchings was to accomplish this.
Answer: What is terrorize Black people into submission / reinforce white supremacy?
This leader argued for immediate full equality and higher education for the “Talented Tenth.”
Answer: Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
One major impact of HBCUs was creating this type of cultural and intellectual space.
Answer: What are spaces of Black scholarship and pride?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review (not about race, but on your test as a distractor concept reminder).
Answer: What is Marbury v. Madison?
The Greenwood District in Tulsa was known as this.
Answer: What is Black Wall Street?
The Great Migration was largely driven by:
a. Industrial expansion in the South
b. Increased Black land ownership
c. Racial violence and economic opportunity in the North
d. The Black Star Line
c. Racial violence and economic opportunity in the North
The Black Codes were most similar in purpose to this earlier legal system.
Answer: What are slave codes?
The Supreme Court case that legally upheld segregation.
Answer: What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Du Bois’s concept describing the internal conflict of seeing oneself through both Black and American identities.
Answer: What is double consciousness?
Washington would most likely support founding this type of institution.
Answer: What is an industrial / vocational school?
This method of voter suppression required payment before voting.
Answer: What is a poll tax?
The summer of 1919 was called “Red Summer” because of this.
Answer: What is widespread racial violence / bloodshed?
Which of the following best describes the long-term impact of convict leasing?
a. It strengthened Black economic mobility
b. It undermined the intent of the 13th Amendment
c. It eliminated racial labor hierarchies
d. It encouraged industrial education
b. It undermined the intent of the 13th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery.
Answer: What is the 13th Amendment?
The election that effectively ended Reconstruction.
Answer: What is the Election of 1876?
Du Bois’s metaphor describing the barrier separating Black Americans from white society.
Answer: What is the veil?
Du Bois believed this would lead to equality before economic advancement.
Answer: What are civil rights / political equality/political engagement?
This clause allowed white men to vote if their grandfathers had voted.
Answer: What is the grandfather clause?
Claude McKay’s poem “If We Must Die” encourages this response to racial violence.
Answer: What is resilience and resistance?
The founding of HBCUs was primarily a response to:
a. Black desire for segregationd. Exclusion from predominantly white institutions
d. Exclusion from predominantly white institutions
This amendment guaranteed voting rights to Black men when first ratified.
Answer: What is the 15th Amendment?
This period between Reconstruction and WWII is called the lowest point in American race relations.
Answer: What is the Nadir?
Anna Julia Cooper emphasized the importance of educating this group for racial progress.
Answer: Who are Black girls / Black women?
This ideology emphasized education and moral development as pathways to racial progress.
Answer: What is racial uplift?
Failure in sharecropping often led to this exploitative labor system.
Answer: What is convict leasing?
The broader historical context influencing McKay’s poem included this.
Answer: What is the Red Summer and racial terror under Jim Crow?
Which of the following best explains why many Black Southerners supported Booker T. Washington’s approach to uplift?
a. It emphasized economic safety within violent systems
b. It promised armed resistance
c. It demanded immediate desegregation
d. It rejected all education
a. It emphasized economic safety within violent systems