American History: 1.2 Key Dates of Events and Statistics Flashcards
Congress passed 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery
31 January 1865
14th Amendment passed which made all people born or naturalised in the USA (inc. those who had been slaves) US Citizens
9 July 1868
15th Amendment passed declaring that all US citizens had the same voting rights
3 February 1870
Year when Fannie Lou Hamer went to vote in Ruleville, Mississippi and was sacked from her job and she was told that people weren’t “ready” for her to do this
1962
Year when black Americans were supposedly free and equal
1870
Year when Wilson introduced segregation in government offices and the White House
1913
Year when there was about 25 anti-black race riots, often set off by police injustice and hundreds were killed
1919
By which year did the South have a large number of Jim Crow Laws?
1917
By ? the number of black Americans registered to vote had dropped considerably
1917
Number of black voters in Louisiana
Fell from 130,334 in 1896 to 1,342 in 1904
Plessy vs Ferguson
1896
Lynchings of 65 white men and 579 black men
Between 1915 and 1930
Emmett Till lynched
1955
KKK revived
1915
Estimate of membership of KKK by 1925
Between 3 and 8 million
How many segregated people did Harding speak to at the Uni of Alabama about the evils of segregation?
30,000
Who were committed to Laissez-Faire?
Harding and Coolidge
Great Migration
1917-32
By ? almost 40% of African Americans in the North were living in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus Ohio
1920
Population of New York in 1910, 1920 and 1930
91,709
152,467
327,706
Population of Detroit in 1910, 1920 and 1930
5,741
40,838
120,066
Population of Chicago in 1910, 1920 and 1930
44,103
109,458
233,903
Great Depression
1929-39
During the 19…s black voters shifted from mainly voting republican (who abolished slavery) to voting democrat (New Deal)
1930s
NAACP established
1910
NAACP turned down the case of 9 young black men framed for raping 2 white girls on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama
1931
In the early 19…s, Birmingham, Alabama had 6 black American members of the NAACP and 3,000 + black American communists
1930s
Another depression hit the USA in
1937
Resettlement Administration set up by Executive Order 7027 in
May 1935
The Resettlement Administration still only helped
3,400 of 200,000+ farmers
In ….. around 2 million people signed a petition for Federal Aid to move to Africa
1939
In September ? WW2 broke out in Europe
1939
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on
7 December 1941
USA’s first conscription bill pushed through Congress
1940
A. Philip Randolph threatened a 100,000 strong all-black march on Washington unless Roosevelt banned discrimination in the army and in defence factories
May 1941
Summer of 1942 - 3% of defence workers black
1944 - rose to …
8%
What year saw outbreaks of racist violence and strikes lead by white people over having to work with blacks for the war effort?
1943
In 19…, Truman set up the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, which called for equal opportunities in work and housing
1946
In 19…, Truman issued Executive Orders desegregating the military and all work done by businesses for the government
1948
UN set up
1945
Direct Action
1917-55
NAACP membership went from 9,000 in 1917 to 90,000 in 1919 and 600,000 in …
1946