Chapter 12- The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Ch. 13- The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868-1877 Ch. 14- White Supremacy Triumphant: african Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1877-1895 Ch. 15- African Americans Challenge White Supremacy Ch. 16- Conciliation, Agitation and Migration, 1895-1928
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What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Which Reconstruction Amendment reads: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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What is carpetbagger?
These people were white northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to either try to make money or assist formerly enslaved African Americans
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What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This supreme court case concluded that it is Constitutional to require the races to be separates as long as their accommodations are equal.
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Who is Booker T. Washington?
This black leader patterned Tuskegee Institute after Hampton Institute which he had attended
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Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
His book The Souls of Black Folk continues to be an influential book.
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Who was General William Tecumseh Sherman?
This general issued Field Order No. 15 that gave formerly enslaved people 40 acres of land and a government mule in order to farm land on the southeast coast.
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What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This secret, faith-based, terrorist organization targeted African Americans for violence in the years after the Civil War.
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Who is Ida B. Wells?
In the late 1800s this African American, woman, journalist was one of the first to advocate an anti-lynching bill.
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What is the Buffalo Soldiers?
This group of soldiers was sent the Southwestern United States to fight Native Americans and protect white settlers
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What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The organization was established by African Americans and white progressives with the purpose of advocating for black civil rights
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What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This Reconstruction Amendment noted that all people born in the United States are citizens and that all citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law
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What are the Redeemers?
In the 1870s as white southerners used violence and other forms of intimidation to gain control of southern governments they used a term with biblical overtones to describe themselves.
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What is the Exocusters?
African Americans moving to the west in the 1870s adopted this name
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Who is Madam C.J. Walker
She is often called America's first Black Millionaire.
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What is club movement?
Black women used these organization to socialize and also to organize initiatives
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What is the Republican Party?
This political party became the advocate for the formerly enslaved in the years immediately after the Civil War
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What is the west?
Southern African Americans began to move to this region of the U.S. in response to racial violence
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What is sharecropping?
This form of farming requires the farmer to pay the landowner by giving him a portion of the plants grown.
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Who is Jack Johnson?
He became the first black heavyweight boxing champion from the United States
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What is Woodrow Wilson's motto for World War I
The purpose of this activity was to "make the world safe for democracy."
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What is Radical Reconstruction
This form of Reconstruction was instituted as a response to frustrations over the form of Reconstruction put in place immediately after the assassination of Lincoln
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What is Mississippi?
This state elected two black senators during the Reconstruction period.
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What is the Convict Lease program?
This form of labor allowed plantation and mine owners to use prisoners to work for them for free
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What is The Talented Tenth?
W.E.B. DuBois coined this name to refer to educated African Americans who he believed were destined to lead the race.
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What are sites of anti-black riots in the first two decades of the 1900s?
Atlanta, Springfield, Ill, East S. Louis, Mo., Houston, Tex., Chicago, Illinois, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Elaine, Arkansas






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