Slavery & the Civil War
This person was the 16th President of the United States and signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
This plan had the goal of bringing the South back into the Union as quickly as possible.
Presidential Reconstruction
This was the reason for increased migration of African Americans from the South to the North.
Better economic opportunities
This person preached non-violence and was seen as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This person preached Black nationalism, self-reliance, and self-protection.
Malcom X
This law allowed Southerners to reclaim 'escaped' slaves in the North.
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
This officially ended slavery, but provided a loophole to put people into involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
This happened in 1919 after the death of Eugene Williams.
The Red Summer
This term refers to African Americans who rode segregated public interstate busses as a form of non-violent protest.
Freedom Riders
The Black Power Movement differs from Dr King's Civil Rights Movement in this way.
Decreased support for nonviolent approach to gaining equality, emphasizing self-reliance and self-defense.
This compromise split the United States into Slave States and Free States.
The Missouri Compromise of
These were ratified into the Constitution giving voting and citizenship rights to previously enslaved people.
14th Amendment and 15th Amendment
This new ideology had African Americans showing pride in their culture and heritage.
The New Negro
These acts were passes in the early 1960's to expand equal rights.
Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965)
This person began using the phrase 'Black Power' to unite the Black community in an effort to gain equality.
Stokely Carmichael
This compromise decided which new territories would be slave states or free states.
The Compromise of 1850
This system was described as 'worse than slavery'.
Sharecropping
This term describes how Black Americans should act to be seen as equal to white people.
Uplift Suasion
This protest was the largest of its kind and brought all types of people in from all over the country.
The March on Washington
This Black Power organization was created to protect and support Black communities.
The Black Panther Party
This act freed all Confederate-owned slaves who escaped to Union lines or lived in occupied territory during the Civil War.
The Confiscation Acts of 1862
This Act led to the ratification of three new Constitutional amendments and military occupation of the South.
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
This term describes the social effect of the ruling in Shelly v Kramer.
White Flight
This group of college students organized non-violent protests, such as sit-ins.
The SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
How was African American leadership in the U.S. minimized in response to the Black Power Movement?
Leaders were seen as a national threat, and therefore were assassinated, imprisoned, or forced to flee to other countries.
This concept allowed citizens of a state to determine whether or not they would allow slavery.
Popular Sovereignty
This organization was created to help formerly enslaved people in the South after the Civil War.
The Freedmen's Bureau
These two terms describe the different ways segregation can be applied in society.
De Jure Segregation (legal segregation) and De Facto Segregation (social and cultural segregation)
This event on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama led to an increase in public support of the Voting Rights Act due to the national media coverage.
Bloody Sunday
What did white people hear when discussing the term 'Black Power'?
Black Power means Black violence.
This new national holiday is observed every June and celebrates the day slaves in Texas discovered they had been freed.
Juneteenth (June 19th, 1865)
This person became the President after Lincoln was assassinated.
Andrew Johnson
How did the Harlem Renaissance change American society's perspective of Black Americans?
Established a growing sense of Black pride.
This campaign, organized by Dr. King, worked to respond to the ongoing economic injustice and inequality African Americans faced.
The Poor People's Campaign
How did the Black Panther Party support their community?
Armed patrols to protect from police violence and anti-poverty programs such as free breakfasts for children.