Failures of the Progressive Era

Failures of the Progressive Era

Demands for Equal Rights

African Americans demanded equal rights.

- 80% of lived in rural areas in the South, most as sharecroppers (Families renting land from landowners and giving them part of the harvest).

-Black Codes and Jim Crow laws limited the rights of these citizens guaranteed by the constitution.

Plessy versus Ferguson (1896)

Supreme court established the precedent that segregation did not violate the 14th amendment (equal protection under the law).

Discrimination

Black Codes/Jim Crow laws segregated blacks in schools, hotels, restaurants, trains, and other public facilities.

Literacy tests and poll taxes limited black voting.

Lynching and violence were common.

Multiple Choice

Why were the Tulsa Race Riot victims unable to collect insurance claims on their destroyed properties?

• Because they didn't have insurance policies

• Because they were African Americans

• Because their homes were destroyed in a "riot"

• Because they lived outside of the Tulsa city limits

Multiple Choice

How many people were charged and/or convicted for starting the violence?

• 0

• 1

• 6

• 300

Multiple Choice

How fast did Greenwood rebuild

• 1 year

• 10 years

• 5 years

• It never completely recovered

Multiple Choice

Who made exaggerated claims that likely contributed to the riots?

• Tulsa Tribune

• Sarah Page

• Dick Rowland

• The police

Multiple Choice

What helped earn Greenwood the nickname Black Wall Street?

• It was the home of Tulsa's banking industry

• The stock market got its start there

• Many blacks for successful and prosperous

• This is where oil was discovered

Multiple Choice

Which is the best description of Greenwood?

• The white district of Tulsa

• The black district of Tulsa

• The poorest part of Tulsa

• The town just north of Tulsa

Multiple Select

If an African American refused to sign the contract they could be punished by: (check all that apply)

• fines

• beatings

• arrests for vagrancy

• deportation

• house arrest

Multiple Choice

Many African American workers were forced to sign contracts that

• forced them to work for free

• limited them to work for one employer

• made them stay in the old slave quarters

Multiple Select

Black codes deprived African Americans of (check all that apply)

• the right to vote

• the right to serve on juries

• the right to own or carry weapons

Multiple Choice

Due to the 2nd Amendment, Blacks were allowed to carry guns-True or False

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

If a Freedman was unemployed, they may be arrested and required to perform forced labor-True or False

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

You were considered Black if you were 1% African American according to the Black Codes-True or False

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.

• Fraternal Order of Elks
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freemasons
• Illuminati

Multiple Choice

How did the ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson relate to the 14th amendment?

• It said that separate but equal was unfair

• It created laws that separated blacks and whites.

• It created laws that desegregated blacks and whites forever

• It created laws to unify America

Multiple Choice

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women
• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

Multiple Choice

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

• Grandfather clause

• Father Clause

• Grandmother Clause

• Santa Clause

Multiple Choice

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

• Grandfather clause

• Father Clause

• Grandmother Clause

• Santa Clause

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• Keep public facilities cleaner

• keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

• keep the races pure

• keep African-Americans from voting

Multiple Choice

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Multiple Choice

Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Integration
• Conflagration
• Confederation
• Segregation

Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

Black civil rights leaders were divided on how to address racial problems. Two leaders were most influential: WEB DuBois (left) and Booker T Washington (right).

Booker T Washington

- Born a slave in Virginia and used hard work

and education to become

a teacher after the Civil War

-He founded the Tuskegee Institute, a school to train black workers and teachers.

- On race relations, he argued in favor of accommodation: Blacks should work hard, educate themselves, and earn the rights they wanted.

WEB DuBois

- DuBois was born in Massachusetts and was the first black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard.

- He opposed Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” and…

- …called for immediate civil rights and the promotion of the “Talented Tenth” of young black leaders.

WEB DuBois

We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free American, political, civil and social, and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America

—W.E.B. DuBois

“Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom, we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands and fail to keep in our mind that we shall prosper as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor…It is at the bottom of life we should begin and not the top…In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

—Booker T. Washington

 ”Atlanta Compromise” (1895)

Atlanta Cotton States Exposition

The Niagra Movement

- In 1905, DuBois and other black leaders led the Niagara Movement .

- They demanded an

end to segregation and discrimination and economic and educational equality.

- The meeting led to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 to fight for black equality.

NAACP

- The NAACP fought voting restrictions and segregation laws by using the 14th Amendment to file lawsuits.

- WEB DuBois was the most outspoken early member of the NAACP by using The Crisis newsletter to call attention to black causes.

Multiple Choice

Many African Americans criticized this leader calling him an "accommodationist" and a "compromiser" who gave-in to white demands?

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

His can be considered a "giant leap" forward approach to civil rights.

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

His can be considered a "baby steps" approach to civil rights.

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

Who would have said: "The right to spend a dollar in an equal society is more important than the right to earn a dollar at a job"?

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

Believed political rights were more important than economic rights

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

Was an original founding member of the Niagara Movement (an early civil rights organization)

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

Delivered his Atlanta Compromise speech at the 1895 International Cotton Expo

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Dubois

Multiple Choice

WEB DuBois believed in

• African-Americans needed to be educated and involved in politics

• believed job skills were most important

• being a slave was fun

• having a job was not important

Multiple Choice

WEB DuBois

• founded the NAACP

• worked in a salt mine at age 9

• was born in Tennessee

• taught job skills to African-Americans

Multiple Choice

Booker T Washington

• was born rich

• equality for all

• believed education was not important

• was principal of the Tuskegee Institute

Multiple Choice

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed

• white people are superior

• the telephone is the best invention

• Education for African-Americans is important

• Equal rights for all

Multiple Choice

Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?

• William Lloyd Douglas
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• George Washington     
• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

Booker T Washington's Job

• educator

• Fireman

• Officer

• Pilot

Open Ended

In 2-3 sentences, summarize the approach of Booker T. Washington & WEB DuBois regarding civil rights to help African-Americans .

"Back to Africa" Movement

Marcus Garvey

- Jamaican immigrant

Marcus Garvey believed

that whites and blacks

could not coexist in America

- In 1907, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association to encourage blacks to return to Africa

-He created a number

of businesses to promote Black Nationalism 

-Garvey lost credibility when he was jailed for mail fraud and deported to Jamaica 

Multiple Choice

Which leader promoted Black Pride?

• Booker Washington

• William Du Bois

• Marcus Garvey

Multiple Choice

Marcus garvey was arrested for _______

• fraud associated with the UNIA

• working without a permit

• Starting the UNIA

• fraud associated with the Black Starline

Multiple Choice

What was the Black Star Line?

• An airline company

• A shipping company

• A YouTube channel

• A marching band

Multiple Choice

Who stared the back to Africa movement to free Africans from their colonial oppressors?

• Langston Hughes

• Henry Ford

• Marcus Garvey

Multiple Choice

Who stared the back to Africa movement to free Africans from their colonial oppressors?

• Langston Hughes
• Henry Ford
• Marcus Garvey