Us History-America First-Hand Quiz 1

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Documents and artifacts directly produced by the individuals and groups that participated in or witnessed the situation, event, or topic being researched are called?

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Primary sources

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All the sources included in America Firsthand Book are what type of sources?

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Primary sources

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Books and articles in scholarly journals that bring together a collection of evidence in order to interpret and build arguments around what happened are called

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Secondary Sources

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Secondary sources offers?

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Answers to research questions and provide stories that link together all the evidence into coherent and interesting narratives

Front 5

The courts have a __________ process lawyers to share their evidence with opposing counsel before trial

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Discovery

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On what date did the Union victory in the Civil War effectively end slavery? (but however did not resolve the questions about the roles that African American men and women would play in American society)

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April 1865

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The first attempts to secure rights for the former bond servants occurred during the?

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Postwar Reconstruction period

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The first attempts to secure rights for the former bond servants, which occurred during the postwar Reconstruction period, produced three new?

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Amendments to the Constitution

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Despite federal laws mandating economic freedom for Blacks, violent opposition from white Southerners blunted the radical edge of Reconstruction. In part, this resistance took legal forms, such as?

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– Marshaling public opinion

– Applying economic power

– Organizing politically

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After resistance took legal forms it then changed when people resorted to terror that came early and continued for generations. What was this organization of people called?

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The Ku Klux Klan

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What was the Ku Klux Klan?

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An extralegal group that intimidated, whipped, and killed African Americans and their white allies who dared to speak out for freedom.

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What black journalist from Mississippi, took on the Klan, in print and on the stump. She denounced lynching and demanded federal intervention on behalf of of Blacks. Her efforts and those of countless other protesters failed to eliminate racial violence, as demonstrated by the rise of lynching as a public spectacle.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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In the end, three institutions replace slavery in the postwar South. What were these?

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– Segregation in social affairs

– A whites–only Democratic Party in politics

– Share cropping and tenant farming in the economy

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At the same that the former slaves hopes for freedom were being dashed in the South, what was occurring in the West?

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The West drew capital and immigrants from far and wide and stirred the American imagination

"The Peopling of the West"

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When was the completion of the first transcontinental railroad link?

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1869

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What happens with the completion of the first transcontinental railroad link in 1869?

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Accelerated newcomers movement to the West, along with the collapse of the buffalo herds that fed and sheltered the Plains Indians, and help to decimate the remaining independent Native American peoples.

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In 1869 with the completion of the railroad link and the movement of Americans to the west the Native Americans were shunted to reservations often far from their ancestry homes. What happened to their young children?

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Their young people were placed in building schools for education in the ways of the settler society

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After the Civil War, freedmen struggle to define their?

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Freedom

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Many or most freed African Americans slaves thought that they would achieve freedom by having?

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Ownership of land (a dream encouraged by a field order issued by Gen. William Sherman in 1865 that assigned some vacant lands to former slaves)

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What important amendments came into being in the aftermath of the Civil War to the U.S. Constitution?

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The Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth Amendments (1870)

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Although the so-called civil rights amendments decreed equality between races, what ended up actually happening?

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Equal status did not become a reality in African Americans daily lives in either the North or the South.

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Who said this saying

"We thought we was going to be richer than the white folks, cause we was stronger and knowed how to work, and the whites didn't, and they didn't have us to work for them anymore. But it didn't turn out that way. We soon found out that freedom could make folks proud, but he didn't make him rich".

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Felix Haywood

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Who worked for Massa for four years after freedom because he was forced to. Then he stole a horse and ran away with a girl named Govie and started a farm in Texas?

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Toby Jones

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What was Ida B. Wells known for?

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She not only spoke out against the lynching of Blacks but also orchestrated a vigorous public campaign to end the lynchings

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In adulthood Ida B. Wells later became a journalist and focused her reporting on?

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Contemporary Southern politics and wrote movingly about the steady decline of African-American liberties and the rise of violent white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan

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One of Ida B. Wells most famous writings is called the?

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (published in 1892)

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What message did Ida B. Wells give to African Americans in her writings?

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She encourage fellow Blacks to respond aggressively and to assert themselves Blacks must arm themselves and be willing to put their rifles and revolvers to use in self-defense

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In Ida B. Wells view, who was to blame for the rise in the number of lynching in the late 19th century South?

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She argued that the real cause of the rise in extralegal racial violence was the growing economic power of African Americans