African Americans

Question 1

When was the 13th Amendment and what did it do?

Answer 1

1865

Formally frees the slaves

Question 2

When was the first Civil Rights Act and what did ti guarantee?

Answer 2

1866

Legal equality

Question 3

When was the 14th amendment and what did it do?

Answer 3

1868

Granted African Americans citizenship

Question 4

When was the 15th Amendment and what did it do?

Answer 4

1870

Gave African Americans the vote

Question 5

When was the KKK Act and what did it do?

Answer 5

1871

Protected Southern African Americans

Question 6

What did the 1873 Slaughterhouse Case do?

Answer 6

Stated that states controlled citizen rights

Question 7

When was Plessy Vs Ferguson and what did it do?

Answer 7

1896

Established “separate but equal”

Question 8

When was the Fair Employment Act?

Answer 8

1941

Question 9

What year was Plessy Vs Ferguson overturned and by what, and under which president?

Answer 9

1954

Overturned by Brown Vs Board under Eisenhower

Question 10

Which consecutive Acts were introduced by Kennedy and made legit by Johnson?

Answer 10

1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 Voting Rights Act

Question 11

What Act was in 1968?

Answer 11

Fair Housing Act

Question 12

What and When was California Vs Bakke?

Answer 12

1978

White student discriminated against when trying to join school

Question 13

When was MLK Day introduced ?

Answer 13

1983

Question 14

What Act was in 1983?

Answer 14

Civil Rights Restoration Act

Recipients of federal funds must comply with the civil rights laws in all areas

Question 15

When were the Rodney King Riots?

Answer 15

1992

Due to the excessive force used against Rodney King by policemen which killed him

Question 16

Main events during Reconstruction Period 1865 - 1877 (turning point)

Answer 16

Led by Andrew Johnson in wake of civil war

Passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment giving African Americans the vote

Question 17

Main events during the Gilded Age 1875 - 1895 (turning point)

Answer 17

Introduction of the Jim Crow Laws

Increased opposition to African American rights through the KKK

Question 18

World Wars (turning point)

Answer 18

WW1 increases employment, migration, ghettos

WW2 link with Hitler and Jewish persecution discouraging overall discrimination.

Question 19

1950’s (turning point)

Answer 19

Murder of Emmet Till, Brown Vs Board, Little Rock

Rosa Parks, and Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Question 20

1960’s (turning point)

Answer 20

Birmingham Protest, March on Washington, Civil and Voting Rights Act, role of MLK

Question 21

Black Power (turning point)

Answer 21

Malcom X and Nation of Islam
Militant role of the Black Panthers and black consciousness
Other key activists believed it hindered progression of rights

Question 22

Who was Frederick Douglas?

Answer 22

Led abolitionist movement and president of Freedman’s Savings Bank

Question 23

Who was Blanche K. Bruce?

Answer 23

First African American senator to serve a whole term in office 1881- 1885

Question 24

Who was Ida B. Wells?

Answer 24

Co-founded the NAACP and campaigned against lynching’s and Jim Crow laws

Question 25

Who was Booker T. Washington?

Answer 25

Disagreed with Du Bois and promoted education and economic advancement to secure rights Established Tuskegee institute

Question 26

Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?

Answer 26

Established NAACP and believed in political rights campaigns

Question 27

Who was A. Phillip Randolph?

Answer 27

Led organised labour causes in 1920's to pressure govt. | Member of BOTSCP

Question 28

Who was Marcus Garvey?

Answer 28

Established black identity and consciousness

Question 29

Who was MLK?

Answer 29

Led SCLC, credited with Civil Rights Act

Question 30

Who was Malcom X?

Answer 30

Believed in separatism worked with N.o.I

Question 31

Who was Jesse Jackson?

Answer 31

Ran as president candidate in the 1980s

Question 32

Andrew Johnson

Answer 32

Supported rights to hampered by Southern States

Question 33

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 33

Very limited support for African American rights

Question 34

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 34

Introduced New Deal = slight improvements

Question 35

Harry S. Truman

Answer 35

"To secure these rights" published

Question 36

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 36

Forced to act during Brown Vs Board

Question 37

John F. Kennedy

Answer 37

Meets with MLK

Question 38

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 38

Passes Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts

Question 39

Richard Nixon

Answer 39

Introduces Affirmative Action

Question 40

Ronald Reagan

Answer 40

Limited support, opposes MLK Day

Question 41

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

Answer 41

Organisation to support ex-slaves

Question 42

Who were the KKK?

Answer 42

White supremacists group set up in 1867 led lynching campaigns. Resurges in 1920's, 1950's

Question 43

What were the NAACP?

Answer 43

National Association for Advancement of Coloured People set up in 1909. Focused on legal challenges.

Question 44

What was the Tuskegee Institute?

Answer 44

Set up by Booker T. Washington in 1881 to train teachers and promote education improvements

Question 45

What was the UNIA?

Answer 45

Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Garvey in 1914, first large organization.

Question 46

What was the White Councils?

Answer 46

Set up after Brown Vs Board to protest school segregation

Question 47

What was the SCLC?

Answer 47

Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded in 1957. Led by MLK

Question 48

What was CORE?

Answer 48

Congress of Racial Equality founded in 1942. Introduced freedom rides and challenged segregation.

Question 49

What wad the SNCC?

Answer 49

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee established in 1962.

Question 50

What was the Nation of Islam?

Answer 50

Founded in 1930 and Malcom X worked with them to promote African heritage in 1950s/60s

Question 51

What were the Black Panthers?

Answer 51

Founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seal. Called for armed resistance and hostility to whites.