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Question 1

What did Johnson attempt to do to the 14th amendment?

Answer 1

Veto it - showed southern sympathy and set social standards

Question 2

Activist who was personal friends with Lincoln?

Answer 2

Frederick Douglass

Question 3

When was, and what was the Atlanta compromise?

Answer 3

1895 - Booker T Washington said blacks would learn vocational skills and prove they could be hard working and economically dependant

Question 4

When was the great migration?

Answer 4

1910 - 1930 - moved from the south to then north - made it a nationwide problem - in conjunction with WW1 changing attitude to AAs

Question 5

Effect of WW1?

Answer 5

Troops saw desegregated French and wanted that. Sparked activism and opened some people’s eyes to what is right

Question 6

Effect of WW2?

Answer 6

Same as WW1 - desegregated European countries prompted activism later - also irony of fighting a country that was doing what America was - when they got home in the south they were beaten up etc. poor publicity - TURNING POINT bcs initiated activism

Question 7

When were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?

Answer 7

1865 1867 1870