Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

ends slavery

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

gives blacks citizenship and due process of law; no longer property

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

grants African-American men the right to vote

• (women are shocked because they don’t get anything after their efforts for abolition)
• poll taxes and literacy tests later prevent AA’s from exercising their right to vote, especially in the South

Question 4

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 4

law of segregation in all public facilities, separating whites and blacks

Question 5

Black Codes

Answer 5

any laws that restricted mobility of blacks (jobs, housing, everything)

Question 6

KKK

Answer 6

Ku Klux Klan (white supremacist group) emerges to suppress and victimize newly freed slaves. employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans

Question 7

poll taxes and literacy tests

Answer 7

tests made to ensure blacks and even some whites wouldn’t pass

Question 8

lynchings

Answer 8

• a barbaric act that was normalized

- no charges were ever faced

Question 9

1896 Plessy vs Ferguson - “separate but equal” doctrine

Answer 9

• U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized racial segregation and Jim Crow Laws under the “separate but equal” doctrine
• separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace

Question 10

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois’ different viewpoints

Answer 10

• disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress
• B.T.W. = Martin Luther King, Jr. –> urged blacks to accpet discrimination and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material property
• W.E.B. = Malcolm X –> Washington’s strategy would serve only to perpetuate white oppression; advocated political action and a civil rights agenda (helped found NAACP)

Question 11

1920’s Harlem Renaissance

Answer 11

racial pride and culture, literary pride, jazz, and urban migration following WWI

Question 12

Jackie Robinson 1947 and the Brooklyn Dodgers

Answer 12

first African American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Question 13

Pres. Truman ends segregation in the armed forces 1948

Answer 13

abolished discrimination “on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin” in the U.S. Armed Forces –> led to the end of segregation in the services

Question 14

NAACP

Answer 14

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 15

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 15

• goes against 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson

- “separate but equal” doctrine doesn’t apply in educational facilities

Question 16

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 16

have to make a law of no segregation in ANY public facilities (B v. BoE was only in educational facilities)

Question 17

Race relations in America today?

Answer 17

• though media doesn’t portray it improving in some cases

1) diversity rate in cities increasing rapidly
2) Starbucks training employees to treat people equally
3) the unemployment rate amongst blacks decreasing