The Long Civil Rights Movement

What were Black Codes?

• Laws passed by Southern states to restrict the freedom and rights of African Americans
• Laws passed to promote equality and freedom for African Americans
• Measures to provide financial support and resources for African Americans
• Regulations to ensure fair treatment and opportunities for African Americans

Match the following

• Gave Black men the right to vote

• 15th Amendment

• guarantees individual rights

• Bill of Rights

• establishes citizenship

• 13th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• 14th Amendment

What were Jim Crow laws?

• Laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
• Laws governing property ownership in the Southern United States
• Laws regulating voting rights in the Southern United States
• Laws promoting racial integration in the Southern United States

Define segregation

• Segregation is the act of treating everyone equally
• Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things.
• Segregation is the process of bringing people together
• Segregation is the state of mixing different groups of people

What did Plessy v. Ferguson establish?

• The right to free speech
• The abolition of slavery
• The establishment of the Bill of Rights
• The 'separate but equal' doctrine

Who was the only justice not to vote in favor of "separate but equal?"

• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Justice John Marshall Harlan
• Justice Clarence Thomas
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor

What violent act did some southerners commit when they felt Black Americans were "out of line?"

• Stoning

• Crucifixion

• Lynching

Who wrote about many of the lynchings to inform the public?

• Ida B. Wells
• Booker T. Washington
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman

What was the Lost Cause in the South?

• A distorted view of the American Civil War, that portrayed the war as a struggle for states' rights rather than slavery.

• A historical account of the American Civil War based on factual evidence

• A movement to abolish slavery in the South

• A celebration of the Union victory in the American Civil War

What movie, screened at the White House, glorified the KKK and claimed they saved the South from Black misrule?

• The Help
• 12 Years a Slave
• The Birth of a Nation
• Gone with the Wind