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76 Cards in this Set
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When was the Fugitive Slave Act (part of the Compromise of 18**)? |
1850 |
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When was Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Toms Cabin' published (selling 300,000 copies in it's first year)? |
1852 |
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When was the Dred Scott case? |
1858 |
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When was John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry? |
1859 |
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When was the American Civil War? |
1861-1865 |
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When was Bleeding Kansas? |
1854 |
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When was the Homestead Act and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? |
1862 |
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When was the assassination of Lincoln, the beginning of Johnson's presidency, the 13th Amendment, and the start of Presidential Reconstruction? |
1865 |
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When was there race riots in Memphis, a Civil Rights Act, and the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan? |
1866 |
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When was the Military Reconstruction Act, Command of the Army Act, and the beginning of Radical Reconstruction? |
1867 |
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When was the 14th Amendment and Freedmen's Bureau Bill? |
1868 |
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When was the 15th Amendment and the Force Acts to try and stop the K.K.K? |
1870 |
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When was the Amnesty Act? |
1672 |
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When was the Amnesty Act? |
1872 |
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When was there a Civil Rights Act? |
1875 |
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When was the end of the Reconstruction period and the beginning of the Jim Crow era? |
1877 |
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When were the court cases U.S v. Reese and U.S v. Cruikshank? |
1876 |
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When were the Civil Rights Cases? |
1883 |
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When was the Slaughterhouse Descision and a severe economic depression? |
1873 |
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When was the publications of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'? |
1885 |
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When was the Florida rail travel change? |
1887 |
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When did Mississippi introduce income amd literary qualifications to stop black American's from voting? |
1890 |
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When was Plessy v. Ferguson? |
1896 |
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When was Williams v. Mississippi and the introduction of Louisiana's grandfather clause? |
1898 |
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When was ******* v. Board of Education? |
1899 |
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When were there serious race riots in New York City? |
1900 |
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When did 20,000 black Exodusters migrate to Kansas? |
1879 |
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When did mass migration into Harlem begin? |
1905 |
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When was the NAACP established? |
1909 |
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When was the First Great Migration? |
1910-1930 |
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When did 'Birth of a Nation' come out? |
1915 |
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When were there race riots in Chicago and 24 other American cities? |
1919 |
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When was the Harlem Renaissance? |
1920s |
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When did cotton prices drastically reduce? |
1920 |
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When was a black community destroyed in Tulsa, Oklahoma? |
1921 |
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When did membership to the UNIA peak and A. Philip Randolph establish a labour union for railroad porters? |
1925 |
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When did the Wall Street crash trigger the Great Depression? |
1929 |
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When did Roosevelt become president and establish the CCC, AAA, FERA, TVA, NRA, and PWA? |
1933 |
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When was the establishment of the FHA, the lynching of Claude Neal and the defeat of the Constigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill? |
1934 |
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When was the Wagner Act, the Social Security Act, the WPA, and significant race riots in Harlem? |
1935 |
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When was Breedlove v. Suttles? |
1937 |
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When was 'Gone With the Wind' Published and Marian Anderson invited (by Eleanor Roosevelt) to sing at the White House? |
1936 |
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When was 'Gone with the Wind' filmed and Marian Anderson's performance at the Lincoln Memorial? |
1939 |
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When was the Second Great Migration? |
1940-1970 |
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When was the attack on Pearl Harbour and the establishment of the FEPC? |
1941 |
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When were the significant race riots in Detroit and Harlem? |
1943 |
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When did the construction of the first Levittown begin? |
1947 |
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When was Morgan v. Virginia? |
1946 |
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When was McGhee v. Sipes and Shelley v. Kraemer (against restrictive covenants)? |
1948 |
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When was William Hastie made a federal judge and thr congressional urban renewal programme? |
1949 |
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When were there housing riots in Cicero, Chicago? |
1950 |
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When was Brown v. Board of Education? |
1954 |
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When was the Emmett Till case and Rosa Parks arrested for sitting on a bus? |
1955 |
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When were the Montgomery bus boycotts and Browder v. Gayle? |
1956 |
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When was the Little Rock Nine and the establishment of the SCLC? |
1957 |
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When was Boynton v. Virginia, the establishment of the SNCC (after sit-ins) and the publication of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (filmed two years later)? |
1960 |
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When was the Albany movement and the Freedom Rides? |
1961 |
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When was the stand in the schoolhouse door, SCLC's Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington, and JFK's promotion of the Civil Rights Bill and assassination? |
1963 |
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When was a Civil Rights Act, SNCC's Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi murders, the Food Stamp Act, and the Economic Opportunity Act? |
1964 |
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When was the Selma campaign, the Voting Rights Act, the Watts Riots, and the establishment of Medicaid and Medicare, and the USA's involvement in the Vietnam war? |
1965 |
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When was the unemployment rate of white teens 13% and black teens 23%? |
1965 |
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When was MLK's Chicago campaign, the Meredith March and the creation of the Black Panthers? |
1966 |
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When were the Newark Riots, 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' and 'In the Heat of the Night' televised? |
1967 |
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When was the Fair Housing Act, the assassination of MLK, Thurgood Marshal appointed to the supreme court, and the release of the song 'I'm Black and I'm Proud'? |
1968 |
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When was 'Roots' televised? |
1977 |
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When was Alexander v. Holmes County School Board? |
1969 |
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When was the Charlotte Mecklenburg case? |
1971 |
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When was 'Beloved' published? |
1987 |
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When was 'Mississippi Burning' filmed? |
1988 |
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When was 'Malcolm X' made? |
1992 |
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When was 'The Wire' televised? |
2002 |
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When did Barack Obama win the primary elections, make his speech at the Democratic National Convention, and defeat his Republican opponent and win a senate seat? |
2004 |
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When did Barack Obama suceed in gaining Democratic nomination? |
2008 |
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When was 'The Help' published, and Barack Obama become the first black president of the USA? |
2009 |
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When was the Oklahoma Land Rush? |
1889 |
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When did black literacy rates rise by 20%? |
1880 (from 1860) |
