obstacles to civil rights Flashcards
Abraham Lincoln issued the __________proclamation in _____, hoping that announcing that_________ people were free would help the union win the war . When the confederacy was defeated in _______, slavery finally ended with the ______amendment to the constitution.
emancipation
1863
enslaved
1865
13th
despite the legal protection now ensured in the ______________, many white Americans were unwilling to accept an______ status for black Americans.
constution
equal
the jim crow laws were a system of laws and _________ introduced in the southern states between the_____and the early 1900s to enforce segregation - the _______ of white and black people.
regulations
1870s
separation
it was named after a _______ of a black American who often featured in ________ shows. the most common jim crow laws were those that required separate spaces for black and white Americans in ______ places such as toilets, trains, ______ rooms, and leisure facilities.
caricature
ministreal
public
waiting
the governments of states _____ the Jim Crow laws which caused the separation of white and black people. For example, it shall be _______ for a white person to _______anyone except a white person, in ________.
passed
unlawfu;
marry
georgia
the __ ___ ____ was originally formed in Tennessee in ____, in the aftermath of the US civil war. it was a ______ society set up by former confederate leaders including ______ Bedford Forrest.The second Ku klux klan of the _____ and 1920s had similar objectives and methods to the _______ klan.
ku klux klan
1866
secret
nathan
1910s
original
they were white ___who saw it as their responsibility to act as a ______ police force to _________. some methods the kk used were the ____t rides when members would drive up to their houses at night to i______ and threaten them.
supremacists
vigilante
enforced
night
intimidate
size and _____ of the Klan began to decline again by the _____
influenece
1930s
. on paper, no us citizens could be _______ their right to vote on account of their race. this guarantee was set out in the ___Amendment, ratified in _____. it is obvious that these various voter ______________ were designed to disenfranchise people on the basic race, in violation of the ____ amendment
denied
15th
1870
qualifications
15th
however, many __________ states which had large populations of black Americans, looked for legal _________to stop black Americans from voting. They did this by making ________qualification basically ___________for black Americans to register a vote.
southerm
loopholes
voter
impossible
in 1910, before the great __________began, over __% of black Americans lived in the south. The surge in black Americans in northern cities created increased _____________for jobs and housing and resulted in a marked escalation in _______tension. for example, in the east __ ______riot in 1917, over ____ black Americans were killed.
migration
80
competition
racial
st louis
100
tensions over competition for _________ and jobs became even more _______________at the end of WW1. white soldiers returning from Europe saw the recently arrived black immigrants as a _______to their livelihood.
housing
‘pronounced
threat
the outbreaks of __________in northern cities served to bring racial issues and _________facing black Americans to the __________of the public, making it more likely that something would be done to address them. This shows that the ____________ of popular prejudice could actually drive change rather than simply _______ it.
violence
problems
attention
outbursts
obstruct
three main leaders of the civil rights movements emerged during the early 19th century: W.E.B du ____, _________T. Washington, and Marcus ____. They took fundamentally different approaches to the problems facing black Americans.
bois
booker
garvey
Washington, du Bois, and garvey openly disagreed with and disparaged one another. In particular, Washington and du Bois spoke publicly against one another due to the complete opposition of their philosophies.
