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14 Cards in this Set
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What was the least common form of black resistance to slavery? Why?
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rebellion; it was always quelled and the consequence was severe or fatal
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What importance did language, music, religion, and family relations have in slave culture?
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Pidgin, folk music, extended kinship networks all helped them to keep their culture and their distinctiveness
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Who was William Lloyd Garrison, and why was he a crucial figure in the abolitionist movement?
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he was one of the most prominent abolitionists (white) he argued for complete release of slaves, slavery was an abomination (Liberator - gave movement juice)
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In the late 1850s, what was Abraham Lincoln's view about slavery?
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he viewed it as morally wrong, but only moved to make it illegal in the new territories, not in the current US states
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What effect did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry have on southern attitudes about the North?
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they saw it as a sign of Northern hostility towards the south
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What were the so-called "Reconstruction Amendments" (13, 14th, and 15th) to the Constitution?
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13th -- freed slaves
14th -- made them citizens 15th -- right to vote |
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What were the "Jim Crow" laws put in place in most areas of the South after Reconstruction?
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segregation
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What practice did the U.S. Supreme Court allow in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
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separate but equal; overturned in Brown vs. Board of Education
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What was the "Harlem Renaissance"?
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black nationalism in the form of arts
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Who were among the targets of the revived Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s?
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Jews, blacks, catholics, immigrants; anyone who challenged them
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During the Eisenhower administration of the 1950s, which branch of the federal government led the advances in civil rights?
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judicial
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What were some of the reasons the Civil Rights movement emerged in the 1950s and 1960s rather than at an earlier point in the century?
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need
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What were some of the effective strategies used by Civil Rights activists for achieving desegregation of lunch counters, bus terminals, and other public facilities?
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an
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What does the phrase "affirmative action" mean?
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answer
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