Reconstruction & Civil Rights
NYS Regents US History
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| Abolished slavery | ||
| To get rid of | ||
| All people born in the US are citizens with equal rights | ||
| Right to vote for all male citizens | ||
| 13th Amendment, South never really left the union, forgiveness | ||
| Similar to Lincoln's plan offering forgiveness but also gave amnesty to Confederate Leaders | ||
| Historical period marked by military occupation, Constitutional changes and Presidential Impeachment | ||
| Congressmen who wanted full equality for freedmen and disagreed with President Johnson's Plan | ||
| Voting barriers for African Americans, limited the effectiveness of the 15th Amendment | ||
| Created segregation in the South | ||
| Attempted to provide political and legal rights for Freedmen and created a Consitutional basis for the Civil Rights Movement | ||
| A form of Agricuture that limited the freedom of African Americans by keeping them on the plantation and dependent on their former masters | ||
| Due to the Election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1877 the Federal troops were removed from the south | ||
| Regulations that limited the freedom of African Americans | ||
| Formerly enslaved persons (African Americans) after the Civil War | ||
| provided for legal segration based on race if "seperate but equal" facilities were available | ||
| African American leader who advocated vocational training as way of economic opportunity and gradual equality for African Americans | ||
| African Americans should achieve immediate equality by obtaining college education and challenging segregation in court | ||
| Orgainzation created by WEB DuBois to provide lawyers for African Americans whose civil rights were violated | ||
| Vocation training school created by Booker T Washington in order to improve the economic standing of African Americans | ||
| Period from 1900-1930 where African Americans left sharecropping in the south to obtain factory jobs in nothern urban areas | ||
| 1st group of black students who were able to attend an all white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision | ||
| Executive order by President Harry Truman to integrate the Armed Forces after WWII | ||
| Official beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. becomes a national celebrity | ||
| Based on writings of Saint Augustine and actions of Gandhi, citizens used non-violence to peacfully break unjust laws | ||
| An example of civil disobedience used to force the desegrgation of lunch counters | ||
| reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decison, declaring that "seperate but equal is inherently unequal" and legally ended segregation | ||
| Passed after Martin Luther King's March on Washington it made it a crime to discriminate based on race or gender | ||
| Made it a crime to create barriers or restrictions to voting | ||
| Peaceful actions used to end barriers of African American voting rights |