African American History 1850-1940

Question 1

What did the Emancipation Proclamation signed in 1863 say and who signed it?

Answer 1

President Abraham Lincoln

all slaves in Confederates states are free

Question 2

What problems did the freedmen had at the end of the civil war?

Answer 2

landless
lack of food, clothing, shelter
illiteracy
no job skills, only aricultural knowledge

Question 3

What were Freedman’s Bureaus?

Answer 3

helped slaves build a life

Question 4

Which higher learning institutions were established by the Freedmen’s Bureaus?

Answer 4

Fisk University

Hampton Institute

Question 5

What did the 14th Amendment introduce?

Answer 5

citizenship for Blacks

Question 6

What did the 15th Amendment introduce?

Answer 6

the right to vote for black men

Question 7

What did the Amnesty Act legalize in 1872?

Answer 7

disenfrachisement of blacks

by making property and literacy tests and poll tax

Question 8

What was the Great Migration in the 1890s?

Answer 8

Migration of blacks from Southern farmlands to Northern cities
> black neighborhoods/ghettos/slums

Question 9

What did the Jim Crow laws in the 1890s inroduce?

Answer 9

total racial segregation, apartheit Black and White

Question 10

What were Lynchings in the 1910s?

Answer 10

black men were lynched in public by white for alleged rape of white women
white amusement

Question 11

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Plessy vs Ferguson decision?

Answer 11

doctrine “seperate but equal”

segregation is in accordance with the constitution as long as facilities are equally good

Question 12

Who were leading figures in the fight for black emancipation?

Answer 12

Booker T. Washington
William E.B. DuBois
Ida Wells-Berret

Question 13

What did Booker T. Washington do?

Answer 13

Gradualism (Atlanta Address)

Tuskegee Institute: black industrial training

Question 14

What did William E. B. DuBois do?

Answer 14

demand full equality immediately

Washington = Uncle Tom

Question 15

Which biracial Association was founded to fight for black emancipation?

Answer 15

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 16

What happened to Black during and after WW1?

Answer 16

Many Blacks opposed to fight in WW1

Black lost the jobs they had acquired during the war
President Harding: “Return to Normalcy” policy: Racism
red summer

Question 17

What was the red summer 1919?

Answer 17

bloody race riots in several cities

Question 18

What was the “New Negro” like?

Answer 18

Growth of race pride

Question 19

What was the Garvey Movement?

Answer 19

rediscover black heritage
race pride
black naionalist ideas of Marcus Garvey

Question 20

What happened during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s?

Answer 20

success of black writers, musicians, artists
new image and respect for Blacks
Jazz
Harlem = city district in NY

Question 21

What happened to the Blacks during the Great Depression in the 1930s?

Answer 21

extreme unemployement (2-3x whites)
boycotting chain stores that had mostly black customers but hired only white people
New Deal reforms strengthen black support for Democratic Party

Question 22

Name important Black Writer of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 22

Booker T. Washington
William E. B. DuBois
Alain Locke
Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes
Nella Larson
Zora Nora Hurston