Key Terms Flashcards
(13 cards)
What are Black Codes?
Restrictive laws passed in the South after the Civil War to control Black labor and limit their rights and freedoms.
What is disenfranchisement?
The process of depriving a person or group of people of the right to vote.
What was the Great Migration?
The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West, primarily between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s, celebrating Black life and culture.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What is lynching?
Extrajudicial killing by a mob, often used as a tool of racial terror against African Americans.
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What was the purpose of the NAACP?
A civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination and advocate for Black equality.
What does the term ‘New Negro’ refer to?
A term used during the Harlem Renaissance to describe a new generation of African Americans who embraced self-expression, racial pride, and political activism.
What is meant by the ‘New South’?
The term used to describe the post-Reconstruction South, with its supposed emphasis on industrial development and racial reconciliation.
What is sharecropping?
A system of agriculture in which landowners allow a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced.
How did sharecropping impact Black farmers?
Often trapped Black farmers in cycles of debt and poverty.
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
An organization founded by Marcus Garvey that advocated for Black nationalism, self-reliance, and the establishment of an independent Black nation in Africa.
