African American Position

Question 1

What was the main job for AA

Answer 1

Sharecropping tied to the land as they had no means of work to get money

Question 2

After freedom what could they do

Answer 2

Get married

Change their surnames

Question 3

Was it any better in the north?

Answer 3

No due to no legal segregation due to the civil rights act there was still discrimination in employment and housing

Question 4

13th amendment loophole

Answer 4

Allowed freedom to all slaves except those tho were prisoners, who then were used as labourers

Question 5

1877

Answer 5

Lack of military regulation meant there was the development of black codes which then became the Jim crow laws

Question 6

1883

Answer 6

Courts denied civil rights cases that hotels and public places deserved statutory protection against discrimination

Question 7

Social darwinism

Answer 7

The white people were of higher intelligence than AA giving justification for racial discrimination

Question 8

In order to vote they had to

Answer 8

Get past the grandfather clause and the literacy tests

Question 9

Lynching

Answer 9

3500

Question 10

Positive

Answer 10

3 universities set up

Question 11

Booker T Washingron

Answer 11

Set up first coloured school for teachers