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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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The KKK terrorized African Americans and whites who supported equality

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Segregation

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the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

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De jure segregation

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Segregation by law

Segregation in public places including
Schools
Restaurants _______________
Railroad cars
water fountains

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Black Codes

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Laws passed from state to state to keep former slaves dependent on white people.

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Carpetbaggers

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People from the North moved to the South to help

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Jim Crow laws

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African-Americans and white people had to be separated

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Lynching

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Illegal hanging
racially motivated murder

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Sharecroppers

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instead of working for money, farmers worked for a share in the landowners’ crop. (keeping former slaves/African-Americans poor)

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Voting Rights Act 0f 1965

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Outlaw of literacy_______________ test
Racial minorities right to vote
Prohibition of voting discrimination

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Literacy Tests

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Test given to anyone without a fifth grade education (usually poor whites and African-Americans) so they could vote
One wrong answer, a person could not vote
Another way to stop African-Americans from voting
Continued into the 1960’s

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Poll Tax

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A tax that had to be paid in order to vote, in the South

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Scalawags

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Southern Supporters of African American rights

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Civil rights law that outlaws discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex and/or national origin

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De facto segregation

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Segregation based on way of life in society (housing, economics, jobs, colleges, etc.)

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Separate but equal is legal/constitutional

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the US, inferior to whites

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Dred Scott

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“Separate but equal” unconstitutional in school

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Brown v. Board of education

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What two states were added under the Missouri compromise?

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Maine and Missouri

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What is the North called? What is the South called?

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North = Union
South = Confederacy

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Who won the civil war

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The Union

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What are 2 ways that voting rights were restricted?

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Voting fee
Grandfather clause

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What was the precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson?

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Separate but equal

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Reconstruction Era

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-time period after the Civil War in American History (1865-1877)
Rebuilding the South after the Civil War

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What did the Missouri Compromise do regarding slavery?

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Banned slavery in the remaining portion of the Louisiana Purchase, from the southern border of Missouri (36º 30’ parallel)

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Name 3 causes of the civil war

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The Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred-Scott case

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What was the last battle fought in the North?

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Battle of Palmito Ranch?

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Which side succeeded from the Union? What did they call themselves?

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The Confederate States of America

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Presidents during the reconstruction era

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Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant

29
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Political Party in support of African American rights and equality:

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Republican Party

30
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13th Amendment:

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Abolished Slavery in the U.S

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14th amendment:

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all Americans have equal protection under the law.

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24th amendment:

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Outlaws (bans) poll taxes!

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Famous elementary school integration, the little girl who is escorted to school by military

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Ruby Bridges and William Frantz Elementary

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College students peacefully sit at lunch counters to protest illegal segregation at restaurants.

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Greensboro Sit-In

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KKK bombs church killing 4 girls who were getting ready to sing in the choir at Sunday Service

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Birmingham church Bombing

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African Americans refuse to ride the bus for 381 days and force the bus company to change its policy of “whites in the front and African-Americans in the back.”

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Montgomery bus boycott

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Students are escorted to high school by the military, the start of integration.

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Little Rock 9

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Passed by President to end discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Boy from Chicago, brutally tortured and murdered, death shows the North how violent the South

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Emmett Till

40
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A peaceful march to Birmingham to demand equal voting rights but police block protests & attack them

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Bloody Sunday

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Students from the North ride buses to the South to show segregation and violence are major problems in the South.

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Freedom Riders

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Who had the plan to forgive the South after the Civil War?

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Abraham Lincoln

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What did President Andrew Johnson do that hurt the fight for equality?

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supported the return of the prewar social and economic system—except for slavery—cut short any hope of a redistribution of land to the freed people

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What was the precedent set in Brown v. Board of Education?

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separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.

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What happened to Emmett Till and why was it important?

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14-year-old boy from Chicago murdered by 2 white men for allegedly flirting with one of their wives in Mississippi
August 24, 1955
The murderers were found not guilty
Started Civil Rights Movement

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What two documents did President Lynden B. Johnson sign to help Civil Rights?

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Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

47
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What group used non-violence tactics to gain equality for African-Americans and helped get Brown v. Board of Education to the Supreme Court?

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NAACP

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What was Charles Houston’s main goal?

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to end Jim Crow laws

49
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What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Resulted in the integration (intermixing people of all races) of the busses

50
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What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Resulted in the integration (intermixing people of all races) of the busses

51
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What war was going on during the modern-day Civil Rights Era?

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WWI

52
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Television helped the Civil Rights Era so people would know what was happening. True/false

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True

53
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What two events sparked the Civil Rights Movement?

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The Montagmory Bus Boycott amd Greensboro Sit-In

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