The making of America: african-american changes in 1877-1900.

Question 1

what had changed by 1877?

Answer 1

13, 14 and 15th amendments introduced.
freedoms won in CW slowly being eroded away.
collapse of cotton prices left many living in poverty.
growing racism.

Question 2

what were the aims of the 13, 14 and 15th amendments?

Answer 2

new equality for Ba, now had basic rights entrenched in constitution.

Question 3

how were the freedoms won in the civil war started being eroded away?

Answer 3

started with undoing of reconstruction after president Hayes removed federal troops from south in 1877 and allowed south and their chosen local governments to act without any accountability or oversight.

Question 4

what was the role of the 13th amendment?

Answer 4

abolish slavery.

Question 5

what was the role of the 14th amendment?

Answer 5

if you are born in the USA then you are a full citizen.

Question 6

what was the role of the 15th amendment?

Answer 6

right to vote for black men.

Question 7

how Aa life’s change: economic- how did the normal income change?

Answer 7

changes in the amount of money that the average Aa earnt and how they earnt that money.

Question 8

how Aa life’s change: economic- how did the civil war led to cotton collapse?

Answer 8

euroupe relied on other sources of cotton.

Question 9

how Aa life’s change: economic- what did the south do as they largely failed to establish steel/ iron industries?

Answer 9

relied on income from northern railroads.

Question 10

how Aa life’s change: economic- why did the Aa feel trapped?

Answer 10

were free from slavery but trapped in low paying jobs.

Question 11

how Aa life’s change: economic- what is an example of a low paying jobs Aa could find themselves in?

Answer 11

sharecropping.

Question 12

how Aa life’s change: economic- what was an Exoduster and who ‘made it’?

Answer 12

Benjamin singleton.
encouraged move to kansas using the homestead act.

Question 13

how Aa life’s change: economic- how many people moved in exodus in 1879?

Answer 13

6000.

Question 14

how Aa life’s change: economic- what did northern migration lead to?

Answer 14

competition with white western workers and increased racism.

Question 15

how Aa life’s change: economic- in 1882 what did booker t Washington set up?

Answer 15

school for black students.

Question 16

how Aa life’s change: economic- in 1900 what did booker t washington also set up?

Answer 16

national negro business league to support black business.

Question 17

how Aa life’s change: social- what were the Jim crow laws?

Answer 17

allowed states to segregate based on race.

Question 18

how Aa life’s change: social- what did the supreme court of the united states claim each segregated facility was eg: water fountains.?

Answer 18

separate but equal.

Question 19

how Aa life’s change: social- who was also included in the Jim crow laws?

Answer 19

immigrants.?

Question 20

how Aa life’s change: social- how did their land ownership change?

Answer 20

almost tripled but living conditions continued to be poor.

Question 21

how Aa life’s change: social- between 1865- 1893 how many major books and journal articles were published by black authors?

Answer 21

over 100.
206.

Question 22

how Aa life’s change: social- what did black churches become hubs for?

Answer 22

community offering emotional and spiritual support.

Question 23

how Aa life’s change: politically- what were redeemers?

Answer 23

governments in south dominated by ex-slave owners. (called redeemers, saw it as ‘fixing’ damage caused by end of slavery and civil rights in the south.)

Question 24

how Aa life’s change: politically- what was done to limit voting and how many people were voting?

Answer 24

literacy tests.
1896- over 130,000 registered black voters, by 1905- 1342.

Question 25

how Aa life’s change: politically- in the 1890’s what group were introduced and what were they doing?

Answer 25

kk reformed and grew threatening Ba.

Question 26

how Aa life’s change: politically- why did lynching’s increase?

Answer 26

enforce white supremacy.

Question 27

how Aa life’s change: politically- what could people be lynched for?

Answer 27

black men could be lynched for: hitting a white man, being disrespectful or being too wealthy.
the most common justification was that a black man had raped a white woman.

Question 28

how Aa life’s change: Ida b wells- when was she born, how was she educated and what was her first job?

Answer 28

1862. educated under freedman’s bureau.
      teacher.

Question 29

how Aa life’s change: Ida b wells- when did she experience racism, what was the event and what did she try and do?

Answer 29

1884.
travelling first class on train.
ordered to move to a carriage for Aa but refused.
tried to sue train company but lost in court.

Question 30

how Aa life’s change: Ida b wells- what encouraged her to become a journalist, and as a journalist what did she write about?

Answer 30

outraged at unfairness of Aa lives.
wrote about poor quality of education black children received and the growing problem of lynching.

Question 31

how Aa life’s change: Ida b wells- what book, what date did she write about the problems black americans faced?

Answer 31

red record.
1895.

Question 32

how Aa life’s change: Ida b wells- what did she do in 1909?

Answer 32

create the national association for the advancement of coloured people (NAACP.)