Ch 7: African Americans

Slave Codes

laws that defined low position of slaves

Cannot marry or meet with free black people

Slave Code Rule

Marriage between slaves is not legally recognized

Slave Code Rule

Cannot buy or sell anything except buy special arrangment

Slave Code Rule

Couldn’t possess weapons or liquor

Slave Code Rule

No arguing or abusive language towards white people

Slave Code Rule

Couldn’t possess property unless allowed by enslaver

Slave Code Rule

Couldn’t make a will or inherit anything

Slave Code Rule

Couldn’t make a contract or hire themself out

Slave Code Rule

Couldn’t leave a plant without a pass noting their time and destination

Slave Code Rule

No one could teach them how to read or write or give them a book

Slave Code Rule

The had to obey cerfews

Slave Code Rule

Couldn’t testify in court unless it was against another slave

Slave Code Rule

Slave Breeding

effort to maximize the number of offspring

Racial Formation

process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed

The more slaves attacked slavery, the more intense the oppression got

True

Abolitionists

people who advocated to end slavery

The Three Fifths Compromise

slaves counted at 3/5ths of a person in determining population in the house of representatives

Fredric Doglass and Sojourner Truth are famous for…

freeing slaves and becoming visible in the fight for anti-slavery through their speeches and publications

Harriet Tubman was famous for…

the underground railroad

Fugitive Slave Act

returned slaves even if they reached free states

Emancipation Proclamation

freed slaves in the confederacy

13th Amendment

abolished slavery

Reconstruction Act 1867

put each southern state under military control until a new constitution could be written

Plessy v. Fergeson

separate but equal, segregation

Williams v Mississippi

constitutional use of poll taxes, literacy tests, and residential requirements to discourage black people from voting

White primary

black people can’t vote in primary elections

Party Primary

parties that excluded black people from voting

Slavery Reparation

the act of making amends for the injustice of slavery

Booker T. Washingtone accomplished…

Head of black educational institute for black students in Tuskegee, Alabama. Brought national recognition to the institute and became a national figure withing 15 years.

W.E.B Bu Bois accomplished…

Attended Fisk University and the University of Berlin. The 1st black person to receive a doctorate from Harvard.

Booker T. Washingon Atlanta Speech, Sep 18th, 1895

Pledged continued dedication of black people to white people

Niagara Movement

29 black people were invited to a strategi session near Niagara Falls in 1905. After seven sessions they cam up with seven demands that placed responsibility for problems faced by African Americans on white society.

Talented Tenth, Du Bois

the 9/10ths of privileged blacks must serve the others

What did the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People mark?

The merging of white liberism and black militancy