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Clep 1890 BlackIssue
Significant Laws, People and Issues on Black
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The _________of African Americans began in the 1890s, and involved waves of African Americans moving from the South to the urban North to escape the increasing discrimination. | Great Migration |
| The ___________ were not only in favor the abolition of slavery but believed that freed slaves should have complete equality with white citizens. | Radical Republicans |
| Radical Republicans passed a series of laws in their campaign for equal rights for African Americans including the Civil Rights Bill, _________Acts, Freeman's Bureau, and 14th Amendment. | Reconstruction |
| Some Radical Republicans, wanting to punish the South for causing the War, suggested that Southern ___________ should be taken from their owners and divided among the former slaves but never happened. | plantations |
| Booker T Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He believed that African Americans should focus on ______________ rather than social equality and civil rights | economic self-improvement |
| Booker T Washington outlined his accommodationist position in a speech in Atlanta in 1895. His position became known as the Atlanta ________ as a result of that speech. | Compromise |
| __________ had a differing philosophy from Booker T. Washington on how equality was going to be achieved in "The Souls of Black Folks." | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| The Souls of Black Folks, written in 1903, states W.E.B. Du Bois's philosophy on how to achieve equality for African Americans. He believed _______ was the key--an educated African American elite would lead the way to equality. | higher education |
| In the late nineteenth century, the majority of African Americans in the South worked as sharecroppers or _____________ . | tenant farmers |
| A sharecropper is a tenant farmer who gives a portion of his crops to the _____ for rent. | landowner |
| The Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited racial __________ in public accommodations, including hotels, railroads, and theaters. | discrimination |
| The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was an attempt to fight widespread racial discrimination in the South. It was ruled ______ by the Supreme Court in 1883 in the Civil Rights Cases. | invalid |
| ________ laws were laws passed by the Southern states which enforced and legalized racial segregation. | Jim Crow |
| The ruling, _____________ was famous for the "separate but equal" doctrine set forth by the Supreme Court. It upheld the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation. Segregation was enforced as long as the facilities for blacks & whites were equal. | Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 |
| The first large-scale black nationalist a. Washington's the Atlanta Compromise. b.Du Bois's Talented Tenth. c. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. d. Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. | d. Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association. 1920 |
| Booker T. Washington | Proponent of Black civil rights; end of 19th Century; advocated 'patience'. 1880 |
| One 19th Century method of protesting slavery: | Petitions to Congress |
| Calls for reparations for slavery began . . ? | Late 20th Century 1990 |
| Reparations: definition | Monetary compensation for wrongdoing. (to Blacks for slavery; to the North from the South after the Civil War) |
| Booker T. Washington encouraged his fellow Blacks to: | Work hard; acquire property and prove they were worthy of their rights. 1880 |
| A contemporary and a critis of Booker T. Washington: | W.E.B. DuBois 1880 |
| W.E.B. DuBois encourages his fellow Blacks to: | Question racial inequality; be more militant in demanding their rights; not accept separate-but-equal facilities and form an organization to advance their rights. 1910 |
| What organization did W.E.B. DuBois form? | The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 1910 |
| Who formed the NAACP? | W.E.B. DuBois 1910 |
| What does 'NAACP' stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1910 |
| Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were black civil rights proponents when? | Late 19th Century / early 20th Century 1910 |
| Two black civil rights proponents of the late 19th / early 20th centuries: | Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois 1910 |
| Significance of the Dred Scott Case: | No black slave could be a citizen. 1867 |
| When was Dred Scott v. Sanford decided? | 1857 |
| What Supreme Court ruling said that no black slave could be a citizen? | Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857 1857 |
| What influenced the creation of American Jazz in New Orleans? | European musical influences of wealthy Creoles intermingled with African musical influences of poor blacks. 1890 |
| Where is the birthplace of American jazz? | New Orleans 1890 |
| During what decade was American jazz born? | The 1890's 1890 |
| How did jazz influence the lives of the musicians who performed it? | They were wealthier than any other blacks in the country and enjoyed a level of respect and recognition not given to most other blacks. 1890 |
| Where did 'blues' develop? | The rural South 1890 |
| What came first: Jazz or Blues? | The Blues 1890 |
| Define: Jim Crow Laws | 'Separate but equal' facilities for blacks and whites. 1876 |
| How did the Jim Crow Laws come into being? | The Supreme Court struck down desegregation laws during the 1880's and 1890's and upheld 'separate but equal'. 1876 |
| What two strategies were used in the South before the 1960's to prevent blacks from voting? | Poll taxes and literacy requirements. Prior to 1964 24th Amend. |
| The major difference between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois centered on | the way African Americans could make a place for themselves in American society. 1880 |
| Plessy v. Ferguson established the principle of a. one man, one vote. b. separate but equal. c. judicial review. d. equal protection. e. right to privacy. | b. separate but equal. 1896 |
| Significance: Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court upheld separate but equal facilities. 1896 |
| What case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson? | Brown v. Topeka Board of Education 1954 |
| The _____ was started in 1905 by W.E.B. Du Bois and called for equality for blacks. This group later joined with the NAACP. | Niagara Movement 1905 |
| The Niagara Movement was started in 1905. It ended up joining with the ________ , which was successful in making progress with legal challenges for equality. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
| The NAACP was started by white_____ and African-Americans working for equality for blacks. Its attorneys fought many cases to fight prejudice and promote equality. | progressives |
| For example, in Guinn v. United States, its attorneys were able to convince the Supreme Court to strike down the________ preventing blacks from voting in Maryland and Oklahoma. | grandfather clause |
| The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) used the _____ to try to achieve its means. | courts |
| When was Plessy v. Ferguson decided? | 1896 |
| Difference between methods of MLK and Booker T. Washington: | MLK: civil disobedience BTW: patience 1955 |
| Booker T. Washington | Proponent of Black civil rights; end of 19th Century; advocated 'patience'. 1880 |
| Were separate or integrated public schools part of Reconstruction? | No 1870 |
| What Compromise did W.E.B. DuBois oppose? | The Atlanta Compromise 1910 |
| Who authored the Atlanta Compromise? | Booker T. Washington 1895 |
| Who led the Niagara Movement? | W.E.B. DuBois 1905 |
| Which of the following campaigned against lynching in the South? a. Ida B Wells b. Frederick Douglass c. Ray Stannard Baker d. Ida M. Tarbell e. Jane Addams | a. Ida B Wells 1880 |
| Who was Ida B. Wels | An African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband.She documented the extent of lynching in the United States, and was also active in the women's rights movement and the women's suffrage movement. |
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