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Dunmore proclamation

1775 - The British would accept Black escapees from slavery in the colonies into their ranks for freedom

When did George Washington allow Blacks to join the Continental Army

1776

Dred Scott Case

1857 - ruled that Black people weren’t citizens and had no rights and made slavery legal in all states

Nat Turner

1831- Armed rebellion

Who was the first White Northern abolitionist group

The Quakers, organizing for the first time in 1775

American Anti-Slavery Society

William Lloyd Garrison founded it in 1833

American Colonization Society

pushed to slowly end slavery and send Black people back to Africa to Liberia

Which states were the first to secede?

South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas

Which states joined after the first battle at Fort Sumpter?

Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia

What did the first Emancipation Proclamation do

1862 - It gave 100 days to the Confederates to return to the Union or have all their slaves freed

What did the second Emancipation Proclammation do

1863 - It freed all slaves who were still within Confederate owned territory

When was the 13th Amendment ratified

December 6, 1865; ended slavery

What was and who led Wartime Reconstruction

1863- Under Abraham Lincoln it was hallmarked by the 10% plan that allowed Southern states to reform their governments and be readmitted if they swore loyalty to the Union, it effectively ended with Lincolns assassination in 1865

What was and who led Presidential Reconstruction

1885- President Andrew Johnson pushed for more reconciliation with the South ending in 1867 when radical Republicans took charge in Congress who were fed up with Johnson’s leniency

What was and who led Congressional/Radical Reconstruction

1867- Congress and the Radical Republicans took charge and demanded that the Confederate states do more things such as universal male suffrage and finally ended in 1877

14th amendment

1868- guarantees equal citizen rights under the law

15th amendment

1870 - gave all male citizens the right to vote

Compromise of 1877

In exchange for the end of reconstruction in the South the Southern Democrats in the house would agree to elect Rutherford B Hayes as president

What was and when was the KKK founded

1866- a group who attacked Black people

Enforcement Acts/ KKK Acts

1870/71 both made it a federal crime to interfere in a persons right to vote, hold office, serve on a jury, or have equal protection under the law

What were the methods used to stop black sufferage

attacks, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and the most common was poll taxes

Plessy v Ferguson

1896 - legalized racial segregation

What was one of the first Black towns in the West

Allensworth, CA

What were some economic push factors from the South?

low wages, sharecropping, boll weevil and floods (natural disasters)

What were some economic pull factors to the North?

labor shortages because of WWI, new industrial job openings, higher wages than in the south

What were some social push and pull factors?

segregation, sexual exploitation, craving city life

What were some educational push and pull factors?

Southern states allocated unequal amounts of money to Black and White schools, South had very few Black public schools, North had more and better schools in general

What were some criminal justice system push and pull factors?

racial violence, black people couldn’t be jurors, standards to convict black people were lower