Question 3 Flashcards
(77 cards)
P1 - 13th Amendment abolished slavery in _____, wiping out $_billion in capital
1865, 2
P1 - 14th Amendment in ____ granted citizenship and equal protection under law
1868
P1 - 15th Amendment in ____ prohibited denial of voting rights based on race
1870
P1 - The Military Reconstruction Act in ____ divided the South into 5 Military districts and enfranchised over _____ ex-slaves
1867, 700,000
P1 - Black U.S. Senators from Mississippi included B____ K. B___ and H____ R____, whilst _____ black Americans served in state legislatures
Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels. 600-700
P1 - During 1865-1866 B____ C____ were introduced which restricted voting and employment, such as Mississippi’s vagrancy laws
Black Codes
P1 - The Colfax Massacre of _______ saw 280 blacks killed and lead to US v Cruikshank in 1876 which determined the federal government had less control over voting rights than state governments.
April 1873
P1 - The KK were established in ____ and were one of many white supremacy groups. For instance the Red Shirts killed __ blacks during the 1875 Mississippi Plan
1865, 75
S1 - Freedmen’s Bureau was created in ____ to provide food housing and medical aid
1865
S1 - By 1870, ____ children were in school, __ out of 21 million rations were issued to AA, __ hospitals were set up
150,000, 15, 46
S1 - M____ and N___ O____ riots saw a total of 80 black americans killed in 1866
Memphis + New Orleans
S1 - Over ____ people were lynched from 68-71 and the KKK burned 25 schools, killing __ black teachers
400, 50
E1 - S____ S____ F____ O_____ no. 15 gave 400,000 acres of land to freed slaves, but was overturned by Johnson in 1865
Sherman’s Special Field Order
E1 - The S____ H____ A___ opened 46 million acres of public land, but only _ AA obtained any
Southern Homestead Act, 4000
E1 - The Freedmen’s Savings Bank deposits reached $____ million by 1874, but then collapsed.
3.3
E1 - Sharecropping systems became very common, with interest rates of ___%, meaning blacks only possessed ___% of the South’s wealth despite being a third of the population
50%, 1.3%
P2 - The 1883 C___ R___ C____ overturned the 1875 C____ R___ A___
Civil Rights Cases, Civil Rights Act
P2 - Disenfranchisement came from Mississippis poll taxes and literacy tests in 1890, reducing black voting from __% to __%, which was confirmed by Williams v Mississippi in ____
67 to 5.7, 1898
P2 - L______ Grandfather Clauses in 1898 excluded almost all blacks. Only _% of Southern Black Males could vote
Louisiana’s 3%
P2 - White Primaires established in ____ and the lack of Black Congressmen after G____ W___ in 1901 limited AA political involvement
1896, George White
P2 - President H____ and M_____ all refused to intervene with Supreme Court’s hostility and left it to the states
Harrison, McKinley
P2 - the N____ M____ 1905 by W.E.B Du Bois paved the way for the NAACP in ____ and thier C___ M____
Niagra Movement 1909, Crisis Magazine
P2 - Guinn v United States in ___ deemed grandfather clauses unconstitutional
1915
S1 - After Plessy v Ferguson gave the green light for segregation, F___ mandated railroad car segregation in ____, Followed by M____ in ____
Florida 1887, Mississippi 1888
