Initial Points

Question 1

American Constitution

Answer 1

Written in 1787, adopted in 1788. Rights, duties and structure of government in America.

Question 2

Bill of rights

Answer 2

Addition to the constitution in 1791 - Sets out freedoms that all Americans should enjoy.

Question 3

Civil war

Answer 3

‘Slave states’ in the south and the ‘Free states’ in the north. The north won led, by Abraham Lincoln.

Question 4

Freedom of all slavery

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln, leading the North, declared that the freedom of all American slaves in his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 5

13th Amendment

Answer 5

Made slavery illegal.

Question 6

Civil war dates

Answer 6

1861-1865

Question 7

14th Amendment

Answer 7

Give citizenship to all people born in the United States, guaranteeing the rights of people formerly slaves.

Question 8

15th Amendment

Answer 8

Gave all citizens voting rights.

Question 9

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 9

1890 and 1910 - Legal segregation. Denying blacks access to facilities used by whites. Healthcare, education, transport and public facilities were segregated.

Question 10

Black voting rights

Answer 10

Southern states prevented blacks voting - Grandfather clauses, Literacy tests.

Question 11

Good old time Negro

Answer 11

Rich whites used blacks to nurse, care for children, cook/clean houses. Intimate relationship. Inferior race, that are happy to be segregated and serve for whites. Hired people that fit to stereotype.

Question 12

The Ku Klux Klan

Answer 12

Radical white supremacy group, targeting blacks romantic, prosperous, challenged segregation. Lynched victims. 1900, 115 cases. Policemen, judges, politicians, no justice. Birth of a nation - vulnerable whites against blacks $10m ($220m)

Question 13

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 13

1896 - Court case showing that segregation was unconstitutional. Train ride Louisiana white area, violated 14 amendment everyone equal. Supreme court - separate but equal.

Question 14

North Conditions for Blacks - Good

Answer 14

Little legally forced segregation. South agriculture, north industrial. WW1 ‘great migration’ 500,000 moved north, economic boom 1920. Pay was better. Easier to vote.

Question 15

Philip Randolph

Answer 15

Organised first successful black union - Brotherhood of Sleeping car porters

Question 16

North Conditions for Blacks - Bad

Answer 16

Huge discrimination and racism. Payed less than whites, forced to live in undesirable neighbourhoods. Ghettos - black population, poor facilities. Economic deprivation.