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Which continents were part of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

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The Americas, Europe, Africa

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The Middle Passage was the journey from:

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Africa to the Americas

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Why did the British take over the slave trade in the late seventeenth century?

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They needed labor for tobacco and sugar cultivation in North America and the Caribbean

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Certain slaves were more valuable than others because:

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They possessed agricultural expertise

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What steps did Europeans take to reduce the risk of rebellion on ships, American plantations, and in slave factories in Africa?

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Families and ethnic groups were separated

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How would an African most likely become a slave?

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Their town or village was conquered by another African army

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What was a common characteristic of a typical slave ship?

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Slave captains packed ships tight to maximize profit

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What does the story by Olaudah Equiano reveal about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

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It was a brutal, perilous, death-encountering experience

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What did the first European slave traders trade for stolen Africans, and who were these Africans taken from?

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Food and the Dutch

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What important finding was revealed via Isaac Jefferson’s memoir?

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Information about the Hemmings’ Family Tree

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In the 1940s, what room constructed right next to Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom in the Monticello Mansion?

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A men’s public restroom right over Sally’s room

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Who led Cato’s Conspiracy / Rebellion aka the Stono Rebellion?

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Jemmy

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Who took a leading role in the events that led up to the famous Boston Tea Party?

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Samuel Adams

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Who was one of the first Africans in America that earned his freedom, gained land, and even owned African and European slaves?

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Anthony Johnson

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According to Frederick Douglass, slavery turns masters (both old and new) into:

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Inhumane, immoral, brutal people

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According to Frederick Douglass, the one thing his second master despised is what he committed his life to. What was it?

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Education, specifically literacy

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According to Booker T. Washington, who was his father and what is his response to this?

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A master at a nearby plantation, an unfortunate circumstance of the institution of slavery

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What material artifact did Booker T. Washington cherish most?

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His first cap/hat, given to him by his mother

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What did Booker T. Washington do in order to arrive at school on time?

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Change the time on the work clock

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The title “Brotherly Love,” according to African Americans’ historical experiences represents all of the following except for:

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Freedom, liberty, and justice for all

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The title “Brotherly Love” represents what?

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The city of Philadelphia; the supposed love shared between brothers and sisters in Christ; hypocritical contradictions embedded in the origins of the US

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What are 3 paradoxes of Thomas Jefferson?

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He proposed all men are created equal, but was only referring to rich white men with property; he produced public and private writings about slavery that insisted blacks are inferior beings, simple, and child-like; he proposed blacks and whites could never live together as equals

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Who was the black American preacher who helped start the Free African Society and the African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel) because blacks were ousted from full inclusion in white American churches?

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Richard Allen

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All are aspects of slave marriages in the early 1800s, except for:

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Slaves had no interest or saw any value in family or community

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What are 3 aspects of slave marriages in the early 1800s?

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White ministers omitted in the slaves wedding ceremony till death do you part and those who God joins together let no man come between; slaves celebrated weddings by jumping over a broom; slaves were not legal citizens and could be sold at any moment

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Which was not a historical aspect of the cotton gin?

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It allowed for half of the world’s cotton production (it allowed for 75%)

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What are 3 historical aspects of the cotton gin?

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It was a machine used for separating the seeds from cotton fibers; it was invented by Eli Whitney, a school teacher; it allowed two workers to do the work of 100 men in one day

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Who gathered about 1,000 rebellious slaves outside of Richmond, but was betrayed by 2 followers before the uprisings began?

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Gabriel Prosser

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What is not true of the Napoleon and the Louisiana Territory sale?

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Napoleon sold it to Jefferson for 5 million dollars (actually 15 million)

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What are 3 aspects of the Louisiana Territory sale?

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Napoleon had no choice but to sell land because he lost it to Haiti; Napoleon lost his French military navel ground in the Americas and lost all interest in North America and the New World; the French architecture and cultural influence made a significant impact on the Southeastern region of the US

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What anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison drew attention to abolitionists about the horrors of slavery?

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The Liberator

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Who was stolen/kidnapped and placed into slavery, but later escaped after a little more than a decade?

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Solomon Northup

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What did Eli Whitney supposedly invent?

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The cotton gin

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What slave revolt was victorious that led to the expansion of the US? (occurred on one of the Caribbean islands)

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Toussaint Louverture’s Revolution, Saint-Domingue

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What city did Walter White’s story take place?

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Atlanta

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36
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How did Walter White say he became conscious of his race, namely what is meant for him to be a black boy in white America?

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Being hunted in his neighborhood by a mob

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What are the self-ascribed characteristics of Walter White?

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White-looking; middle class; somewhat neat and orderly (like his mother); curious but non-confrontational when it comes to violence

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What is not a self-ascribed characteristic of Walter White?

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Sneaky and deceptive

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Richard Wright was born on a plantation in Mississippi, but left the US and died where?

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Paris, France

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40
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Richard Wright came to understand that whites and blacks lived very separately where?

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In schools; in church; in the jobs they worked; in the sexual relations they had

41
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Richard Wright learned that blacks and whites lived separately, except for:

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In the violence they engaged in

42
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Where did Richard Wright’s story take place when he began to investigate and question race relations?

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On a train

43
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What did Richard Wright learn about his grandparents from his mother?

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They were slaves

44
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T or F: scientific racism corresponded with religious racism to keep blacks out of white churches, but place them in white homes as cooks, servants, and medical caretakers.

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True

45
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US Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney made what major decision about Africans in 1857?

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Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

46
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What was the name of the 21 year old who hid in the floor boards for 7 years (in NC) who saw her children and slave master from a small hole in the wood?

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Harriet Jacobs

47
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A text/book called ‘an appeal’ written by _________ around the 1930s called for slaves to rise up against their masters (it was smuggled from the north to the south by black sailors)

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David Walker

48
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The smuggling of an appeal by Walker resulted in what?

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A bounty was put on the writers head; southern states outlawing the teaching of blacks to read; a rise in abolitionism

49
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The smuggling of an appeal by Walker did not result in what?

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The lynching of David Walker

50
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What was the name of the man from Kansas who avenged the free soil killings in his state? (His sons were also involved)

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John Brown

51
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T or F: In the 1830s, colored people in the north were barred from voting, attending white schools, unable to testify against whites, sign a binding contract with whites.

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True

52
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T or F: in the mid 1830s, the word “white” became part of the legal language in many local, state, and federal documents, which continued to keep Negroes in social bondage.

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True

53
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T or F: during the 1830s, most whites in the south knew slavery in the US was wrong, but thought it would be worse to eradicate slavery because the US socioeconomic System was built on it.

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True

54
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What was the peanut gallery that Gordon Parks mentioned?

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The section where black people had to sit in public

55
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What was Gordon Parks looking for in the river and why?

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A dead body, the policeman offered him money to find it

56
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According to Gordon Parks, who is Capt’n Tuck?

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An old dead man at the morgue

57
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What was the advice Gordon Parks’ brother gave him on his deathbed?

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Use your head/brain

58
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About how many slaves were sold in the largest slave auction in the US?

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450

59
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What was the significance of Anthony Burns’ trial?

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It showed deference to the south

60
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T or F: the Free Soil Movement enabled anybody who moved west past the Mississippi River to obtain free land, a mule, and exercise the right to vote.

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False

61
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T or F: the Emancipation Proclamation freed all enslaved people in the US.

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False

62
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T or F: Frederick Douglass fought and died at Harpers Ferry alongside free and enslaved Negroes?

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False

63
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Southern whites who aligned with the Republican Party in the south were called what by southern Democrats?

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Scalawags

64
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Which former Confederate state had the least number of blacks holding office during Reconstruction?

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Tennessee

65
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What is true about black officeholders during Reconstruction?

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Some had been free before the war, some had been slaves

66
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What is not true about black officeholders during Reconstruction?

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They were always well-qualified for their offices; a large majority had attended college; farmers and workers were poorly represented

67
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What was a major problem faced by Republicans in establishing schools during Reconstruction?

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Some blacks and whites were opposed to compulsory education laws

68
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What was the purpose of stay laws?

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To assist blacks by prohibiting state authorities from taking property

69
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How did class and social status divide blacks during Reconstruction?

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Leaders - former slaves and free could not agree on strategy

70
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What did white southerners mean when they said they wanted to “redeem” their states?

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They wanted to remove blacks and Republicans from political office

71
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Where was the KKK most powerful in the south?

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In areas where blacks embodied a large minority of the population

72
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Why did local law enforcement fail to effectively prosecute the Klan?

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Local law enforcement or white troops often sided with the Klan

73
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What is the connection between the KKK and Reconstruction?

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The Klan promoted violence in the interest of southern Democrats who ended Reconstruction

74
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What is true about the Enforcement Acts of 1870-71?

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It authorized the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus

75
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What is not true about the Enforcement Acts?

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It was a misdemeanor crime to interfere with someone’s right to vote; it prevented the President from sending in federal troops if necessary; they were not put into effect because of white racism

76
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Why did the Freedmen’s Savings Bank fail?

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White leaders of the bank invested poorly and lost everything in the Panic

77
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What was the “shotgun policy”?

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A massive campaign of violence against blacks in Mississippi to bring the state back under “civilized” white control

78
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Political violence in Alabama in 1874 against blacks is symptomatic of what aspect of Reconstruction?

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The redemption of the southern states from Republican rule

79
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The Colfax Massacre is an example of what pattern of violence?

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A well-armed White mob attacked black defenders

80
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What is the connection between the Voices section (letter) on black leaders and the Civil Rights Act, and the main themes of thentextbook chapter?

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Reflects the desire of black leaders for stronger civil rights laws

81
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How did Congress react to southern attempts to stop black political power?

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They passed the 15th Amendment

82
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T or F: black leaders in the state legislature compelled the University of SC, which had been all white, to admit black students and hire black faculty, but many of the white students and faculty left, and several black politicians enrolled in the law and medical programs.

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True

83
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T or F: in 1877 as part of a compromise with the Democratic Party, President Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south.

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True

84
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What party were most blacks loyal to in the post-Reconstruction south?

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Republicans

85
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How did Democrats limit black political power in the south?

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They created oddly shaped congressional districts to prevent blacks from being elected to office

86
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What view did the white farmers’ alliance have on black voting?

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They did not think that blacks should vote but ironically encouraged them to vote for certain candidates

87
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Why is the year 1892 significant in US history?

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In the 1892 election, when Democrats carried every southern state and sought to destroy the Populist challenge, there was an explosion of violence: 235 people lynched

88
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What new twist did Louisiana add in 1898 to make sure whites voted but blacks did not?

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The grandfather clause

89
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Where did the term “Jim Crow” originate?

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It was the name of a routine in a popular white minstrel show that ridiculed black people

90
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What was the problem, in the views of southern states, with voting laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and property qualifications?

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Laws might eliminate poor illiterate white voters as well as black voters

91
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How did the railroad companies view segregation?

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They opposed the idea because they did not want to pay the expense of maintaining separate cars

92
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What were grandfather clauses?

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Voting restriction clauses which held that someone could vote only if his grandfather or father had been able to vote before a certain time, usually before the end of slavery

93
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What was the effect of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?

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It demonstrated that the highest court in the land accepted the racially discriminatory treatment of blacks

94
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What do the actions of Homer Plessy tell us about black people and segregation?

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Blacks were testing laws by getting arrested and trying cases in court

95
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How did whites expect blacks to behave after the Civil War?

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Black men were never to look at (or touch) white women

96
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What incident prompted the racial violence in Wilmington, NC?

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The editor of a local black newspaper wrote an editorial that condemned white men for the sexual exploitation of black women and suggested that black men had sexual liaisons with rural white women

97
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What is true about the number of lynchings in the south over the period 1889-1932?

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2 to 3 people were lynched, on average, every week for 30 years

98
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What was a crop lien?

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Merchants, in exchange for goods and products needed at a general store, would have a legal claim to part of the black family’s crop

99
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What was the stated reason given by whites for many lynchings?

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A black man had raped a white woman

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