African Americans Key Acts and Facts

Question 1

Slaughterhouse case (SC)

Answer 1

1873 - Rights of Citizens under state control

Question 2

US v Cruikshank (SC)

Answer 2

1876 - Overturns the 1875 civil rights act

Question 3

Plessy v Ferguson (SC)

Answer 3

1896 - Separate but equal

Question 4

Mississippi v Williams (SC)

Answer 4

1898 - Rules that Mississippi poll tax is legal

Question 5

Cumming v Board of Education (SC)

Answer 5

1899 - segregation extended to schools

Question 6

Moore v Dempsey (SC)

Answer 6

1923 - Helped change attitudes towards lynching in the south

Question 7

Gaines v Canada (SC)

Answer 7

1938 - Separate but equal facilities had to be equal

Question 8

Browder v Gayle (SC)

Answer 8

1956 - Outlaws segregation on buses

Question 9

Brown v Board of education (SC)

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1954

Question 10

Griggs v Duke Power Company (SC)

Answer 10

1971

Question 11

Swann v Charlotte Mecklenburg board of education (SC)

Answer 11

Supports bussing

Question 12

Miliken v Bradley (SC)

Answer 12

1974 - doesnt support bussing

Question 13

14th Amendment (CON)

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1868 - African Americans could vote

Question 14

Civil rights act (1875) (CON)

Answer 14

1875

Question 15

Hayes compromise (CON)

Answer 15

1877 - Jim crows could start in the south

Question 16

Tennessee Railway act (CON)

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1881 - Regulated railroads. Segregated railways

Question 17

New deal legislation (CON)

Answer 17

1930s

Question 18

Civil Rights act (1957) (CON)

Answer 18

1957 - Strom Thrumbold spoke for 24 hours against it.

Question 19

Civil Rights act (1964) (CON)

Answer 19

(1964)

Question 20

Voting rights act (CON)

Answer 20

1965

Question 21

Lincoln (PRES)

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1863 - Passes emancipation proclamation

Question 22

Wilson becomes president (PRES)

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1913 - Segregates white house

Question 23

Roosevelt and Order 9981 (PRES)

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1941 - Desegregates armed forces

Question 24

600 African Americans served in state Legislature and 22 in Congress

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1870s

Question 25

184 African Americans got lunched (Social)

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1885 - Despite Ida B Wells protests

Question 26

White house was segregated (Social)

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1920s

Question 27

Robert Weaver assigns $45 million in aid for black people (Social)

Answer 27

1934

Question 28

70,000 A.A in education (Economic)

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1876

Question 29

40,000 A.A move west (Economic)

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1890’s

Question 30

47,000 out of 2 mil A.A professionals (Economic)

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1900

Question 31

Harlem population of 23,000 (Economic)

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By 1920

Question 32

30% of blacks were on welfare support compared to 10% white (Economic)

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1935

Question 33

KKK established in Tennessee (Attitude)

Answer 33

1865

Question 34

2000 killed in the run up to presidential elections in Louisiana (Attitude)

Answer 34

1868

Question 35

‘Birth of Nation’ film (Attitude)

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1915 - Boosts KKK membership to 4 mil, but fell to 30,000 in 1930

Question 36

Murder of Emmett Till (Attitude)

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1955 - Sparks national outrage

Question 37

March on Washington (Attitude)

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1963 - 50,000 whites involved in the march

Question 38

Bombing of 16th street Baptist church (Attitude)

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1963 - Kills 4 Black school girls

Question 39

Gallup Poll (Attitude)

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1963 - Suggests its a bad idea to march on Washington (60%)

Question 40

359 violent uprisings in 257 cities (Black Power) (Attitude)

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1960s

Question 41

Reconstruction Era (Unity)

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Black Churches/schools established. 1,544 schools in Georgia which educated 11,000 people

Question 42

Booker T Washington v W E du Bois (Unity)

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Fighting to end segregation versus aiming to improve A.A Status in economy

Question 43

MLK v Malcolm X (Unity)

Answer 43

Not that different.

Question 44

Black panther formed in Oakland California

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1966 - Encourages black self help