Geography Flashcards
1
Q
1850 slave no
A
3.2 million
2
Q
1850 free blacks no
A
400 000
3
Q
Civil war
A
1861-65
4
Q
No of blacks joined federal army
A
300 000
5
Q
Emancipation proclamation
A
Jan 1863
6
Q
Number of freed slaves
A
3.5 million
7
Q
Transition slave to free
A
1863-77
8
Q
Southern Homestead Act
A
1866
44 acres for ex slaves
9
Q
Freedom
A
1865
10
Q
Slow drift north and west
A
1865-1917
11
Q
Economic depression
A
1914
12
Q
Great migration
A
1915-45
13
Q
First great migration
No of Blacks to northern cities from south
A
1.6 million
14
Q
First great migration
No of blacks to cotton belt
A
7 million
15
Q
1910-30 black northern pop % increase
A
+40%
16
Q
Boll weevil
A
1914
17
Q
KKK rapidly grew
A
1915-26
18
Q
Economic boom
A
1920s
19
Q
Great Economic Depression
A
1929
20
Q
New deal
A
1929-41
21
Q
Economic recovery
A
1933
22
Q
WWII
A
1941-45
23
Q
Wealth and industrial production
WWII
A
X2
24
Q
Unemployment decrease New Deal
A
11 million in 12 years
25
WWII no of new jobs
17 million
26
Average wage increase WWII
+30%
27
Move north WWII
| No of whites and blacks
15 million
28
Migration North and West
1941-45
29
Migration back south
1965-80
30
% blacks urbanised by 1970
80%
31
Fraction move back south
2/3 rds
32
% of blacks reasoned for returning to their families
52%
33
Legal segregation
1880s-90s
34
Please v Ferguson
1896
35
Harlem
1905
36
Number of blacks in Harlem
87 000
| 1920-30
37
Number of whites moved out of Harlem
118 000
| 1920-30
38
Harlem Resistance
1925
39
Race riots
1935-43
40
Harlem revitalised
1960s
41
Chicago Riots
1919
| 27th July
42
Red summer
1919
| 26 race riots
43
Chicago Riots
| no of homes attacked
1000
44
Chicago riots
| Number dead and wounded
38 dead
| 537 wounded
45
Tulsa Race riot
1921
| May
46
Tulsa
| blacks moved
2500
| 1/2 of pop
47
Race riots
1917-21
48
Watts Riots LA
1965
| August
49
Number of Watt rioters
3500
50
Watt Riots
| Casualty
34 deaths
| 1032 injuries
51
Watt riots
| Property damage
$40 million
52
Newark riot
1967
53
Newark riot
| Casualties
26 black deaths
| 1000 black injuries
54
Newark riot
| Property damage
$10 million
55
Leviitown
| No of new homes
17 000
56
De facto segregation
1960s
57
Population settlement
| No inner city / no suburbs
1970s
80 million suburbs
15 million inner city
58
Greater black equality
1950s-60s
59
US Supeme court demanded greater integration
1968&71
60
No more racial public schooling
1970s
