Civics - Quiz 5

Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln declares all enslaved people in the southern states that rebelled are free

Juneteenth

holiday on June 19 to commemorate freeing of the last enslaves people in Texas after civil war.

Reminds us that not everyone was always free and treated fairly

Jim Crow Laws

Racist laws created to limit rights and day to day actions of Black Americans

restricted their access to education, voting rights, public accommodations, transportation, family and marriage by making segregation legal

Segregation

When people are separated by race

limited right and freedoms of black americans

Great Migration

African Americans relocate to north and west cities to get away from Jim Crow Laws and get better jobs and opportunities

Harlem Renaissance

Flourishing of arts and culture in the African American commuity

Opened People’s eyes to African American culture and struggles

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Supreme Court decides that accommodations/ facilities can be “separate but equal”

Made segregation and Jim Crow laws legal. Lost their voice in their government.

“separate but equal”

Made segregation and Jim Crow laws legal

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

Disenfranchise

take away someone’s voice in their government by taking away their right to vote

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

“Separate but equal” ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson was declared unconstitutional in schools

Schools can’t reject, discriminate, or segregate students based on race

Desegregation/Integration

To stop separating/segregating people by race

Next step towards racial equality

Little Rock Nine

They wanted to integrate schools

9 black students started to attend a white school and kept attending even when a mob tried to stop them

Bright awareness to racial inequality when people saw the mob

Montgomery Bus Boycott

People stopes riding on busses until they integrated then

Supreme Court supported decision that is was unconstitutional to segregate public transit

Greensboro Sit Ins

Went in to segregated department store and waited to be served. Attracted lots of attention and support and department store starts losing a lot of money.

The department store integrates their lunch counters as a result.

Civil Rights Act

1964

Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, or national origin

Ends segregation

Voting Rights Act

1965

Banned and restrictions on voting this also made the poll tax, literacy tests illegal

African Americans can finally get a say in their government

Literacy Tests

tests taken before being allowed to vote

designed to disenfranchise African Americans

Poll Tax

You had to pay to be able to vote

disenfranchised African Americans