Chapter 1 - From Slavery to Segregation

Question 1

What year was the American Constitution drafted?

Answer 1

1787

Question 2

What year was the 13th Amendment made in and what did it do?

Answer 2

1865 - Abolished Slavery

Question 3

What year was the 14th Amendment made in and what did it do?

Answer 3

1868 - Citizenship guaranteed for all races

Question 4

What year was the 15th Amendment made in and what did it achieve?

Answer 4

1870 - Voting rights guaranteed for all races

Question 5

What was the Emancipation Proclamation and when was it made?

Answer 5

It declared the freedom of all American slaves.

Made in 1862.

Question 6

What were “Jim Crow” laws and when were they introduced?

Answer 6

Between 1890 and 1910 Southern states introduced legal segregation through Jim Crow laws which denied Black Americans access to facilities used by White Americans.

Question 7

How did Southern states disenfranchise the local black population?

Answer 7

• The ‘grandfather clause’ = People could only vote if their grandfathers had voted.
• Literary tests = Not applied fairly.

Question 8

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 8

‘Defender of the white supremist traditions of the South’ Very powerful between 1915 and 1929.

Question 9

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 9

1896 - Homer Plessy said that ‘Jim Crow’ laws violated the American Constitution = illegal. Took case to Supreme Court. Declared segregation was legal as long as equal facilities.

Question 10

Conditions in North compared to South

Answer 10

• Little enforced segregation in Northern States.
• Pay better in North (still only 50% of white pay)
• Easier for Blacks to vote in North.