Geography Flashcards by Emily Campbell Harry

Q

1850 slave no

A

3.2 million

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1850 free blacks no

A

400 000

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Civil war

A

1861-65

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No of blacks joined federal army

A

300 000

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Emancipation proclamation

A

Jan 1863

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Number of freed slaves

A

3.5 million

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Transition slave to free

A

1863-77

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Southern Homestead Act

A

1866

44 acres for ex slaves

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Freedom

A

1865

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Slow drift north and west

A

1865-1917

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Economic depression

A

1914

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Great migration

A

1915-45

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First great migration

No of Blacks to northern cities from south

A

1.6 million

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First great migration

No of blacks to cotton belt

A

7 million

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1910-30 black northern pop % increase

A

+40%

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Boll weevil

A

1914

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KKK rapidly grew

A

1915-26

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Economic boom

A

1920s

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Great Economic Depression

A

1929

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New deal

A

1929-41

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Economic recovery

A

1933

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WWII

A

1941-45

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Wealth and industrial production

WWII

A

X2

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Unemployment decrease New Deal

A

11 million in 12 years

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WWII no of new jobs

A

17 million

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Average wage increase WWII

A

+30%

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Move north WWII

No of whites and blacks

A

15 million

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Migration North and West

A

1941-45

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Migration back south

A

1965-80

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% blacks urbanised by 1970

A

80%

Q

Fraction move back south

A

2/3 rds

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% of blacks reasoned for returning to their families

A

52%

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Legal segregation

A

1880s-90s

Q

Please v Ferguson

A

1896

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Harlem

A

1905

Q

Number of blacks in Harlem

A

87 000

1920-30

Q

Number of whites moved out of Harlem

A

118 000

1920-30

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Harlem Resistance

A

1925

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Race riots

A

1935-43

Q

Harlem revitalised

A

1960s

Q

Chicago Riots

A

1919

27th July

Q

Red summer

A

1919

26 race riots

Q

Chicago Riots

no of homes attacked

A

1000

Q

Chicago riots

Number dead and wounded

A

38 dead

537 wounded

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Tulsa Race riot

A

1921

May

Q

Tulsa

blacks moved

A

2500

1/2 of pop

Q

Race riots

A

1917-21

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Watts Riots LA

A

1965

August

Q

Number of Watt rioters

A

3500

Q

Watt Riots

Casualty

A

34 deaths

1032 injuries

Q

Watt riots

Property damage

A

$40 million

Q

Newark riot

A

1967

Q

Newark riot

Casualties

A

26 black deaths

1000 black injuries

Q

Newark riot

Property damage

A

$10 million

Q

Leviitown

No of new homes

A

17 000

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De facto segregation

A

1960s

Q

Population settlement

No inner city / no suburbs

A

1970s
80 million suburbs
15 million inner city

Q

Greater black equality

A

1950s-60s

Q

US Supeme court demanded greater integration

A

1968&71

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No more racial public schooling

A

1970s