Gracie - History

Question 1

Poll tax

Answer 1

fee paid to vote

Question 2

Grandfather clause

Answer 2

southern voting law allowed voters whose grandfather had been a registered voter before Reconstruction started to be exempt from taking a literacy test to vote

Question 3

Prejudice

Answer 3

an unfair belief or opinion in which a person judges another before knowing them

Question 4

Discrimination

Answer 4

an action taken to treat someone unfairly

Question 5

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 5

Supreme Court ruling in 1896 that legalized segregation and the Black Codes/Jim Crow laws of the states and local governments - “Separate, but Equal” - Homer Plessy lost his case before the Supreme Court. This allowed segregation until Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Question 6

NAACP

Answer 6

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - early civil rights organization that worked to end Jim Crow laws and guarantee full access to civil rights granted by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Question 7

Booker T. Washington

Answer 7

founder of the Tuskegee Institute; early civil rights activist who believed that African Americans had to achieve educational and economic equality before demanding political equality; had been born into slavery before the Civil War

Question 8

W.E.B. Dubois

Answer 8

one of the founders of the NAACP; early civil rights activist who believed that African Americans needed to demand political equality first in order to guarantee the opportunity to achieve educational and economic equality, born fee in Massachusetts after the Civil War.

Question 9

Frederick Douglass

Answer 9

Civil Rights activist who began calling for an end to slavery before the Civil War and later grew to become a powerful voice for human rights, civil liberties and equal voting rights for all people; men and women, all ethnic and racial groups, and immigrants.

Question 10

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 10

federal agency from 1865-1872 that was meant to help recently freed people and others in the South after the end of the Civil War. It’s goal was to help provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land but the aims grew to include educational opportunities (built schools) and employment negotiations on behalf of displaced Southerners especially newly freed African Americans

Question 11

13th Amendment

Answer 11

Freed the slaves

Question 12

14th Amendment

Answer 12

Made citizens of the former slaves

Question 13

15th Amendment

Answer 13

Gave freed male slaves the right to vote.

Question 14

Compromise of 1877

Answer 14

effectively ended the last part of Reconstruction in the South by giving the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes with an agreement that he would remove the last federal troops from the South.

Question 15

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 15

guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to African Americans, even if they had been enslaved. Also, it strengthened the federal government’s powers to enforce these laws granting civil rights.