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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
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?
Battle of Palmito Ranch?
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Which side succeeded from the Union? What did they call themselves?
The Confederate States of America
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Presidents during the reconstruction era
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant
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Political Party in support of African American rights and equality:
Republican Party
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13th Amendment:
Abolished Slavery in the U.S
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14th amendment:
all Americans have equal protection under the law.
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24th amendment:
Outlaws (bans) poll taxes!
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Famous elementary school integration, the little girl who is escorted to school by military
Ruby Bridges and William Frantz Elementary
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College students peacefully sit at lunch counters to protest illegal segregation at restaurants.
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
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.”
Montgomery bus boycott
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Students are escorted to high school by the military, the start of integration.
Little Rock 9
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Passed by President to end discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Boy from Chicago, brutally tortured and murdered, death shows the North how violent the South
Emmett Till
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A peaceful march to Birmingham to demand equal voting rights but police block protests & attack them
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.
Freedom Riders
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Who had the plan to forgive the South after the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
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What did President Andrew Johnson do that hurt the fight for equality?
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?
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?
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?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
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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?
NAACP
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What was Charles Houston’s main goal?
to end Jim Crow laws
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What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Resulted in the integration (intermixing people of all races) of the busses
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What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Resulted in the integration (intermixing people of all races) of the busses
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What war was going on during the modern-day Civil Rights Era?
WWI
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Television helped the Civil Rights Era so people would know what was happening. True/false
True
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What two events sparked the Civil Rights Movement?
The Montagmory Bus Boycott amd Greensboro Sit-In

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