African American History Test

Sharecropping

Freedmen, poor white farmers and white landowners, working for a labor system where they farmed land for a share of a crop, this was during reconstruction in the South, this replaces slavery as the dominant labor system.

14th amendment 

the U.S. congress granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born in the US in 1868 to protect the rights of freed african americans.

Plessy V Ferguson

Supreme Court Decision where the court ruled seperate but equal facilities is acceptable this gave approval to segregate policies until 1984

Lynching

White mobs agaisnt black americans killed and hung african americans in the late 1800s mid 1900s in the south to terrorize black communities and enforce racial hierarchy.

Great Migration

African Americans moving from the south to Northern cities in 1916-1970 to Chicago, Detroit and New York to seek jobs and escape Jim crow

Characterize the challenges that freedpeople faced during Reconstruction, making sure to describe the strategies that white southerners used to restore white domination in the South.

After the civil war the freed african americans had to rebuild their lives. They wanted to own land, get education, and get family back , The freedmens bureeau helped provide things to help them get back on their feet. But white southerners tried to restore domination like make the black codes to restrict blackc labor rights, the KKK attacked black americans, sharecropping that kept black families depending white landowners. But through violence and political supression white southerners reestablished almost all control over the south reversed many of the gains that african amerians had after slavery was over.

Discuss African Americans’ contributions to the Great War and the racial tensions that erupted at the war’s end.

During WW1 a lot of african americans served in the military in segregated unit, at home black workers filled industrial jobs while white men worked at war, Despite all of their hard work the black soldiers that came back and the racial hostility got worse. White americans were threatned by the progress of black people. This is where the red summer started these attacks showed that whites refused to accept black equality. The war stengetned demands for civil rigths inspring new organizations and movements