US apartheid, Colonialsim 1790-1954

Question 1

1848 Treaty of Guadalupe

Answer 1

Ending Mexican War

Question 2

1862 Homestead Act

Answer 2

Access to land

Question 3

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 3

Only in rebellious states

Question 4

1865 13th Amendment

Answer 4

Freed slaves.
No forced labor - except when convicted of a crime.
40acres and a mule - overturned by Andrew Jackson

62% of American History most blacks were slaves

Question 5

1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 5

Principle of separate but equal in public institutions

Question 6

1898 Wilmington resurrection

Answer 6

Insurrection by whites. Blacks law makers removed

Question 7

1898 ?? Election rights remove

Answer 7

Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Grandfather clause to enable poor whites to vote

Question 8

1933 New Deal Legislation

Answer 8

Made available $120 billion in loans, 98% went to white people.
3 R’s. Relief, recovery, reform

Question 9

1934 Federal Housing Act

Answer 9

Manuals and practices codify channeling funds to white neighborhoods and ‘block busting’. Redlining.

Question 10

1935 Social Security Act

Answer 10

Did not include farm or domestic workers , 68.75% of blacks were in those fields.
There was also a minimum income requirement.

Part of compromise to get southern white congressmen to vote for it.

Question 11

1944 GI Bill

Answer 11

Provided low interest mortgages and funds for education to vets.
Of the first 67,000 Lon’s, 100 %went to white recipients.
20,000 black vets who applied to colleges were unable to find spots.
HBC’s (historically black colleges) grew but could not meet the demand. Most state college still segregated. UNC first accepted blacks in 1973???

Question 12

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 12

Look up

Question 13

1883 Wounded Knee

Answer 13

Extermination of Indians including women & children

Question 14

1922 Ozawa vs. U S

Answer 14

Determined not white

Question 15

1888 Dawes Act

Answer 15

Prove ½ native to be eligible for land