US Film Test 1 Flashcards
(53 cards)
Most slaves with coming of Yankee troops
Joined/followed Union troops
Three opportunities confederacy came close to winning war
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Siege of Atlanta
14th amendment
Defined citizenship
-limited power of state governments over individual rights and freedoms
Southern blacks controlled political power. Explain why this is false.
Southern blacks were rarely a majority in southern legislature
Only two U.S. senators from the south were African American
No governors of the south in the reconstruction period were African American
15th amendment
Suffrage could not be denied due to race, color, and previous status as a slave
Most important public institutions
Public south
Morality of convict labor
Slavery was not as bad
Slavery would have ended without the civil war
Dual purposes of vigilante groups stop crime
EX: red shirts, white leagues, Mississippi rifle club
Stop crime
Send white supremacy
Cause of southern families
Creation of their independent nation
-rights, traditions, etc
The south won the peace
White southerners red stablished white supremacy and stopped southern blacks their constitutional rights with Jim Crow laws, racial voting discrimination laws, and lynching
Lincoln justify slavery
Aided confederacy’s war effort
Radical republics
EX: Thaddeus Stevens
Blacks and who’s are naturally equal
Slavery must end immediately with no financial compensation
Blacks must become citizens
Black males must have the right to vote
ALL ACHIEVED WITH THIRTEEN FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH AMMENDMENT
Importance of emancipation proclamation
Made civil war an end to slavery in confederacy as well as preserve the union/USA
Importance of Lincoln’s election
Campaigned for a constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery throughout USA
With victory, he could claim a mandate from the voters to push for an antislavery constitutional amendment
13 amendment
Prohibited slavery without financial compensation
Lincoln advocated giving rights to which African Americans
Soldiers
Very intelligent
Limited small suffrage versus universal male suffrage for white Americans
Booth
Believed lincoln supported citizenship for African Americans
Murderers of Chaney goodman and schwerner
Civil rights violations
Public school segregation
Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional
Importance of Birmingham protests
Desecration of Birmingham
Presidential support for civil rights legislation
SNCC
Student nonviolence coordinating committee
Civil Rights Act 1964
Ended Jim Crow(legal segregation) laws
Lyndon B. Johnson broke a senate filibuster
Civil Rights Act 1964
Ended Jim Crow(legal segregation) laws
Lyndon B. Johnson broke a senate filibuster
Goal of Mississippi freedom summer
Registration of black voters
