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Chapter 7 African Americans Flashcards

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1
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With African Americans they had ________ when coming to America

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no free will

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2
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Slaves were generally

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captured; imprisoned; thretened with force and violence

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3
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History of Slavery is a

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world wide phenomenon

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No single country ___ slavery

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owns

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In 1641 Massachusetts was the ___

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1st colony to make slavery legal

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W.E.B Du Bois was a sociologist that

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was the first african american sociologist and wrote about slavery as an economic institution

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Du Bois asked the question

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why slavery happened so much more in the South than the North

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Cheapest form of labor

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slaves

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The reason slaves were such a cheap form of labor was because

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minimal food, clothing and housing.

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Lucrative Trade Triangle begins ships would carry

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The middle passage: Slaves from Africa; Run & goods to Europe; Goods from Europe to Africa

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11
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African Americans were traded and sold through the

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trading block

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12
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The planters ideology/mentality had a process of

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cultural genocide with african americans; family, language, religion.

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in 1793 congress passed the first

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fugitive slave act

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Abolitionists

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Abolish slavery growing movement in the north to rid US of Slavery

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1857 what case was ruled on by the US Supreme Court

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Dred Scott decision; all people of african ancestry could never become US citizens so they could not sue; the federal court did not have power to judge slave ownership

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16
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1861 civil war begins when

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the confederated open fire at fort sumter

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the civil war ends in

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1865

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18
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1865-1877=

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Reconstruction

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1895=

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Post Reconstruction

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20
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in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signs the

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Emancipation Proclamation on Jan 1

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21
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1877 begins the dismanteling of the

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new south

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A society made up of different races of people is called a

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heterogenous society.

23
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In the history of America, African American slavery, the Native American Indian Reservations, and the Japanese American Concentration Camps are all good examples of

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Internal or Domestic Colonialism.

24
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The period where laws protecting blacks are repealed and black codes are instituted which begin to replace the gains made by the emancipation proclamation and the 13th amendment is called

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post reconstruction

25
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The period after the civil war which saw many gains by african americans in the south was called

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reconstruction.

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After the civil war the passing of the 14t and 15th led to many gains by african americans in politics and society. This period was called

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reconstruction.

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in 1857 the US Supreme Court opens Northern territory to slavery and denies citizenship to American Blacks. This decision was called

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the Dred Scott Decision.

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The 1954 US Supreme Court decision that stated that the segregation in public schools violates the 14th amendment to the constitution was called

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Brown v. the board of education

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Poll taxes, literacy tests, and property tests were part of the disenfranchisement process and called

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black codes

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As part of the post reconstruction disenfranchisement of african americans, black codes were used to keep african americans away from the voting booth. Another tactic used to keep blacks away from the polls was terrorism. Between 1885 and 1894 there was an estimated 1,700 public lynchings where african americans were hung and their bodies left hanging as a reminder to others. This statement is

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true

31
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One important fact concerning the explanation of slavery is to study slavery as

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an economic institution.

32
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The KKK and their use of terror and lynchings began in the period called

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post reconstruction.

33
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Post Reconstruction period

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black code laws were passed; state and local laws; regulated civil rights

34
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Post reconstruction is also known as

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black disenfranchisement

35
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Black Disenfranchisement tried to remove the power that african americans had previously gained such as

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voting rights; poll taxes; literacy tests; property tests

36
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Another part of the disenfranchisement of african americans happens with the supreme court decision of 1896

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Plessy v Ferguson

separate but equal

37
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The term Jim Crow originated by

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thomas “daddy” dartmouth rice a white minstrel show entertainer

38
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Disenfranchisement also used terror. For ex

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KKK secret society; use of fear; black lynching

39
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African American Benchmarks;

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Civil War; Reconstruction; post-reconstruction/disenfranchisement; migration northward; WWI; WWII

40
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1917 US enters

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WWI

41
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Racism after WWI increase in

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KKK

42
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1915-1930 there was a migration

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northward

43
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The migration northward was in search for

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better opportunities; education; less racism

44
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1932-1972 Tuskegee Experiment US public health experiment with syphilis in

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black men. They tracked the natural progression of syphilis without medicine.

45
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1955 a woman refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery alabama this is known as

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Rosa Parks and it started a boycott

46
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1960 ___ were popular

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sit ins

47
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1964 the civil rights bill was signed by

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president Johnson

48
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1964 24th amendment did three major thing

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voting rights; ends segregation and jim crow; insures equal rights

49
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Watts riots of 1965 was attributed to

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the civil rights signing; the national guard had to be brought in

50
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kkk had a resurgence in

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1965

51
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African American Politics 1890-1930 three key players

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Brooker T Washington
WEB Dubois
Marcus Garvey

52
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Booker T Washington believed in

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self sufficient; self determination/assimilating through your job; accept discrimination/elevate yourself through hard work and material prosperity

53
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WEB Dubois believed

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Booker T Washington perpetuated white oppression; helped start NAACP; believed in college education, political action, and civil rights

54
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Marcus Garvey believed

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National African Homestead; did not want to deal with racism and oppression in america; back to Africa Movement wanted to take back Africa from colonial oppression

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