Civil Rights Vocab.

Question 1

Civil Rights

Answer 1

The rights of an individual to political, social and legal equality

Question 2

Abolitionism

Answer 2

The movement to end slavery

Question 3

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 3

The court ruled in favor of desegregating all public-funded schools to comply with the 14th Amendment

Question 4

Freedom Rides

Answer 4

White and black people got on buses and rode into the South to oppose segregation, were asphyxiated and firebombed

Question 5

Voting Rights Act 1965

Answer 5

Effectively enforced the 15th Amendment and removed all the voting registry exams, 60% of blacks were voting as a result

Question 6

Apartheid

Answer 6

A system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s

Question 7

The Great Migration

Answer 7

Was a movement of many rural southern African Americans to northern cities, beginning a transition to the urban centers that would continue through much of the 20th century.

Question 8

Peonage

Answer 8

The use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt

Question 9

Lynching

Answer 9

Illegal killing (usually hanging) of (usually black) people, was instigated largely by rape accusations.

Question 10

Emmitt Till

Answer 10

A young boy who catcalled a white woman and was lynched as a result, a picture of the brutality was put in the magazine The Jet, which was on Rosa Parks’ mind when she didn’t give up her seat

Question 11

Enforcement Act of 1870

Answer 11

An act passed by Congress to ban the use of terror, force, or bribery to prevent people from voting because of their race

Question 12

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Answer 12

White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties

Question 13

Dick Rowland

Answer 13

An African American teenage shoeshiner whose arrest was the impetus for the Tulsa Race Massacre

Question 14

Red Scare

Answer 14

The fear that communists were working to destroy American security.

Question 15

Reconstruction

Answer 15

The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

Question 17

Ballot Stuffing

Answer 17

filling polls with extra illegal votes to sway the vote

Question 18

literacy tests and poll taxes

Answer 18

Ways that the government tried to prevent African-American men from voting.

Question 19

Grandfather Clause

Answer 19

A black voter could only vote if his grandfather was a freedman before 1865

Question 20

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 20

Once Reconstruction ended in the North and troops were removed, attention returned to maintaining white supremacy, and these were passed to effectively keep segregation legal, name is based off of a dumb comic character, did actually guarantee equal rights but these were never practiced

Question 21

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 21

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Question 22

New Deal Programs

Answer 22

President FDR’s federal relief programs during the Great Depression

Question 23

Civil Rights Movement

Answer 23

Aimed to secure the civil rights of all peoples through changes in the law or in the way the law is interpreted, also incorporated gaining the support of the federal government