USA - Civil Rights Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
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What was the 13th amendment?
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It abolished enslavement in 1865.
2
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What was the 14th amendment?
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Equal protection of all laws and can’t deprive anything by race in 1868.
3
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What was the 15th amendment?
A
Prohibits denying the vote by race in 1870.
4
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What were the ‘Jim Crow laws’?
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Laws that determined where certain people lived, sat and went to school.
Along with lynching and the KKK.
5
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What was the ‘Great Migration’?
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1917-1932 - 1.5m African Americans moved from the south to cities in the north and west.
500 people fled per day.
By 1933 1/10 of the black population relocated.
6
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What were pull and push factors?
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Pull - better jobs, stories of improved lives.
Push - lynchings, riots, KKK.
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