Finals

Question 1

Hiram Revels

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First African American senator

Question 2

Black Codes

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Laws that severely restricted african Americans’ lives.

Question 3

Radical Republicans

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Led by Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, they wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders.

Question 4

14th Amendment

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Made african-americans citizens and barred Confederate leaders from holding public offices.

Question 5

15th Amendment

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Gave african-americans the right to vote.

Question 6

Tenure of Office Act

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Denied the president the power to remove from office anyone appointed by the Senate. President Andrew Johnson attempted to remove Edwin Stanton but the Senate did not ratify the act. Johnson attempted to appoint a new Secretary of War anyway, leading to his impeachment (the first presidential impeachment ever).

Question 7

Blanche K Bruce

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An American politician. Bruce represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate.

Question 8

Role of Blacks in Southern Politics During Reconstruction

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During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African Americans held public office, from the local level all the way up to the U.S. Senate, though they never achieved representation in government proportionate to their numbers”

Question 9

Who Headed the Friedman’s Bureau

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Oliver Otis Howard

Question 10

White supremacists throughout the south resorted to violence known as:

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Lynching

Question 11

Between 1868-1876, how many blacks were killed by the KKK

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20,000

Question 12

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 stipulated that

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discrimination in public places throughout the country was banned.

Question 13

Compromise of 1877

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This settled the election of 1876, troops were removed from Louisiana and South Carolina and concessions for building a southern transcontinental railroad made

Question 14

10% Plan

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decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the US and pledged to abide by emancipation

Question 15

Exodusters

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freed African Americans who fled to Kansas during the Reconstruction Era of the 1880’s

Question 16

Sharecropping

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This system traded a freedmen’s labor for the use of a house, land, and sometimes further accommodations.They would usually give half or more of their grown crop to their landlords.

Question 17

Tenant farming

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tenant farming was a system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter

Question 18

Jim Crow Laws

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State and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederacy.
1890, a “separate but equal” status for African Americans.
Economic, educational and social disadvantages.

Question 19

Booker T Washington’s personal philosophy was based on the idea that:

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racial integration and the power of the franchise could come only after black people acquired work skills that made them indispensable to the southern economy.

Question 20

National Negro Business League

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Founded by Booker T. support businesses owned and operated by African Americans.

Question 21

According to WEB DuBois, the problem of the 20th century is:

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The problem of the color line

Question 22

Pan Africanism

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A movement that wanted Africa to become a homeland for all people of African descent.

Question 23

Souls of Black Folk

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Book by WEB DuBois.spoke of the color line, veil, and duality.

Question 24

Close Ranks

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WEB DuBois. Encouraged blacks to engage in “close ranks” with whites by joining the armed forces, as they did during the Civil War.

Question 25

Ida B Wells

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African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores

Question 26

Plessy v Ferguson

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A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregated, “equal but separate” public accommodations for blacks and whites did not violate the 14th amendment.

This ruling made segregation legal.

Question 27

William Monroe Trotter

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radical civil rights supporter; wanted to use violence to get equal rights; editorial writer

Question 28

Scott Joplin

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Scott Joplin was a pianist and one of the most important developers of ragtime music

Question 29

Madam CJ Walker

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First Black Female millionaire

Question 30

Carter G Woodson

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First black to get PhD from Harvard. He was the force behind “Negro History Week” which later became Black History Month.

Question 31

A Phillip Randolph

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America’s leading black labor leader who called for a march on Washington D.C. to protest factories’ refusals to hire African Americans

Question 32

New Negro

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willing to fight for equal rights; more assertive and more militant

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Harlem Renaissance

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time of literature and art that rediscovered AA culture

Question 34

Marcus Garvey

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black activist; tried to get people to move back to afric

Question 35

Great Migration

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the migration of African Americans in the south to go north or mid west in 1910-1960

Question 36

Tulsa Riot of 1921

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race riot that occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 left homeless after a white mob burned an all-black section of the city to the ground.

Question 37

In 1915, the ________ came alive again, this time as a national organization dedicated to targeting blacks, Jews, and Catholics.

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KKK

Question 38

A rift developed between Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois because:

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Garvey advocated seperatism, and Du Bois wanted equality & integration

Question 39

As black Americans migrated to the cities, upper-class white Americans

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Fled to the suburbs

Question 40

Great Depression affect on Blacks

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Times had always been hard for them, and then it just got harder. Many just viewed the Great Depression as a white people problem

Question 41

Tuskegee Airmen

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The 1st african american pilots to fly for the US military during WW II after being denied leadership roles b/c of the color of their skin

Question 42

Thurgood Marshall

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American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States

Question 43

Massive Resistance

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Southerners reacted to desegregation with this. They worked through local governments and organizations to obstruct desegregation. Produced delays.

Question 44

Southern Manifesto

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Southern congressmen write this to protest congress’ ruling on mixing public schools. argued that supreme court violated states’ rights.

Question 45

Little Rock Nine

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nine African American students to Central High a school with 2,000 white students

Question 46

One reason that Kennedy could become a vocal supporter of the civil rights movement was

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The civil rights movement was gaining broad based support

Question 47

Ella Baker

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Ella Baker was the executive director of the SCLC

Question 48

When plantation worker Fannie Lou Hamer tried to register to vote, she not only lost her job and home but also was:

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Severely beaten in jail

Question 49

SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Provided larger roles for younger African Americans regarding Civil Rights and became more militant to receive immediate change

Question 50

James Meredith

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First black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, shot during a civil rights march in 1966

Question 51

Stokely Carmichael

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Coined term “black power.” head of SNCC

Question 52

Watts Riot

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In 1965, in the Watts section of Los Angeles, a riot broke out. This triggers a week of violence and anger revealing the resentment blacks felt toward treatment toward them.

Question 53

Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Banned Discrimination in any area open to the public.

Question 54

H Rap Brown

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He was a black activist as a member of SNCC. Compared to others, he was very militant strongly advocating black power.

Question 55

By 1967, King had come to believe that it was necessary to move beyond civil rights legislation and focus on what?

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Economic growth for the poor

Question 56

COINTELPRO

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An FBI program begun in 1956 and continued until 1971 that sought to expose, disrupt, and discredit groups considered to be radical political organizations: Targeted antiwar groups during the Vietnam War.

Question 57

Poor People’s Campaign

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Organized by Martin Luther King Jr. It addressed the issues of economic justice and housing for the poor in the United States.

Question 58

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

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The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (aka the Black Panther Party) was an organization of armed black militants