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Who: Black people
What: Civil rights and equal protection under the law
When: Reconstruction
Where: South
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Who: Black people
What: Allowed to vote
When: 1860's
Where: United States
Why Significant: After the 13th amendment that emancipated the slaves, they were given more rights which scared white people. |
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Who: Bureau
What: Aid freedmen in the south after emacipation
When: Reconstruction
Where: South
Why Significant: Was supposed to also help blacks learn to read and write but that was vetoed. |
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Who: People of the south
What: Way of working the land without owning it
When: After and during reconstruction
Where: South
Why Significant: Black and poor southerners had to work long hours and did not really get paid for their hard work |
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Who: Sharecroppers
What: Credit system for sharecroppers
When: 1860-1920
Where: The South
Why Significant: Since they didnt have any money, they gave a cut of their crop to get some money for materials. This started a cycle of debt for many sharecroppers |
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Who: Native people
What: Native tribe in Carolina
When: late 1800's
Where: Carolina
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Who: Americans and the Spanish
What: A war
When: late 1800's
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Why Significant: Get control over ports close to the united states. Also was a way of bringing the north and south together temporarily.
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Who: Southerns
What: A belief that the south only lost because the north had more man power
When: After the war and reconstruction
Where: South
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Who: White Americans
What: Mythical way of the past
When: After Reconstruction
Where: South
Why Significant: Tried to make the days of slavery sound like the good ole days. Tried to justify slavery. |
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Who: ?
What: A movie about the civil war
When: early 1900's
Where: South
Why Significant: Painted the picture of blacks being aggressive and the old south mammy |
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Who: ?
What: Movie in color about old south
When: set in times of slavery
Where: South
Why Significant: Glorified the mammy and showed the good old days of slavery |
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Who: Political party
What: Conservative Democrats
When: During Reconstruction
Where: South
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Who: Illiterate people
What: Have to take tests in order to vote after the 15th amendment
When: After reconstruction
Where: South
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Who: White southerns
What: Tried to intimidate blacks from voting
When: After reconstruction, 1870's
Where: South
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Who: black activist
What: he survived lynching and was saved
When: during Jim Crow
Where: South
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Who: black activist, journalist
What: she documented lynchings
When: 1890's
Where: South
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| Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange) |
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Who: Tried to eliminate the circle of debt started by crop lien
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Who: Party based on the Farmer's Alliance
What: Based on poor white farmers
When: 1890's
Where: South
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Who: Ran for governor of Alabama
What: Started supporting emancipation but ended up supporting literacy tests
When: 1890's
Where: Alabama
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What: Separate but equal
When: 1896
Where: South
Why Significant: Plessy bought a first class ticket and tried to sit in the white section in Louisiana but was not allowed and was arrested. He took it to supreme court where he was denied. |
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Who: Black people
What: Refusal to go along with Jim Crow Laws
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Who: White Women
What: proper and rich. not working
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Dating back to the plantation era, the idea white woman was constructed as the Southern lady, pure and confined to the private realm of the home. |
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Who: black women
What: servent of white people, enjoyed being enslaved and doing the work
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Who: southerns and blacks
What: style of southern food
When: Black power movement in the 60's
Where: South and North
Why Significant: Something to be proud of |
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Who: black blues musician
What: Why I sing the blues is more than just his generation
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Who: Blues singer
What: Black female
When: Mid 1900's
Where: South
Why Significant: Represented Blues Queen. Helped women's rights |
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Who: guitar and way of playing guitar
What: popular in Hawaii
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| For black women, the dominant images (stereotypes) in the larger society were of the mammy (asexual, nurturer of white family) and the jezebel (hypersexual and in many ways the opposite of the Southern white lady). |
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| White women’s work options were often limited, given that they were expected to play a submissive role to the husband/father. Largely out of necessity black women were much more likely to be employed, mostly as field workers or as domestics in white homes. |
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13th Amendment (ends slavery)
14th Amendment (rights of citizenship)
15th Amendment (right to vote)
Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
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