Ep.2

Question 1

Frederick Douglass

Answer 1

“At last the Black Man has a future”

Question 2

Robert Smalls

Answer 2

Enslaved –> State legislator

Stole Confederate ship and gave it to the Union

Pro education legislation

Question 3

Hiram Revels

Answer 3

First Black Congressman

Question 4

Black gains

Answer 4

• AA’s in government
• Black education (…segregated)
• AA $ independence
• AA in public service pos.
  (sherif, judge, jury)

Question 5

John Lynch

Answer 5

Born a slave –> Miss. speaker of the house

Question 6

Redeemers

Answer 6

White supremacy group who was anti-Republican

Often KKK members who attacked AA’s and “sympathizer’s”

Question 7

KKK targets

Answer 7

“Alpha males” and successful blacks

Question 8

KKK Hearings & Act

Answer 8

KKK Hearings (1871) - Fed gov’t investigating the KKK and collecting testimony

KKK Act (1871) - Gave the fed gov’t power to intervene with the clan in states where they were active

Question 9

Cult of Lee (Robert E.)

Answer 9

Symbolic focal point, flatteries of Lee, seen as the perfect role model for Southerners.

Question 10

Colfax, Louisiana Riot

Answer 10

After a contested election, white mob storm the Grant Parish courthouse, black men were murdered while surrendering to white men

Question 11

Panic of 1873

Answer 11

Leads to political shift, Democrats majority of House of Representatives, Democrats gain control in multiple Southern state governments.

Question 12

Civil Rights Act of 1875 ***

Answer 12

Guaranteed equal access to hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transportation.

Question 13

Debate between Alexander Stephens & Robert Brown Elliot

Answer 13

Both had a full hour, Stephen went, then Elliot went the next day so that he got the support of African Americans in the room, Elliot supported the Civil Rights bill and wanted it to be passed.

Question 14

Frederick Douglass & Emancipation Monument

Answer 14

At the unveiling of the Emancipation statue, Frederick Douglass said “He was pre-eminently the white man’s president. You are the children of Lincoln; we are his step children.” Was very surprising as it was supposed to be a good day of celebration and the president was there.

Question 15

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 15

Republicans select Hayes, Union general, governor of Ohio, not corrupt, no objection to anyone.

Question 16

Samuel Tilden

Answer 16

Democrats select Tilden.

Question 17

15th Amendment

Answer 17

Grants the right to vote for all men, no matter their race, ethnicity or prior slave status.

Question 18

Black Schools

Answer 18

South starts writing public education into their constitutions, making it a right for black and white children.

Question 19

Black Communities

Answer 19

Institutionalized, support structures, churches were cornerstones