The Civil Rights Movement

In 1863, this legally freed all slaves in the Confederacy.

• Reconstruction

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freedom Rides

This amendment outlawed slavery.

• 14th

• 15th

• 13th

In 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, making African Americans citizens and granting them

• equal rights

• food and shelter

• land

The Jim Crow laws, passed in 1881, segregated

• buses

• state railroads

• schools

This kept many African Americans from voting.

• slavery

• Emancipation Proclamation

• poll tax

This is when millions of African Americans traveled north.

• Industrial Revolution

• Sit ins

• The Great Migration

During the Race Riots, ______ African Americans were killed.

• 20

• 30

• 40

In 1919, scores of race riots during this time period left 100 people dead.

• Red Summer

• Black Summer

• Red Winter

In 1947, he became the first African American to play in major league baseball.

• Jackie Chan

• Jackie Robinson

• Hank Aaron

This president issued an order to desegregate the military.

• Roosevelt

• Eisenhower

• Truman