African Americans 1865-1900

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What year is the 13th Amendment?
1864
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How much money did the Freedman's Bureau spend on schools from 1865 to 1871?
$5,000,000
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When was the Freedman's Bureau shut down?
1872
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Which President introduced the Force Acts?
Grant
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What year were the Black Codes introduced?
1865
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What is the definition of sharecropping?
White farmers charging black tenants high living costs out of their crop yield
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Which opposition group used economic intimidation?
Knights of the White Camelia
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How many blacks were elected to Congress in the 1870s?
22
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How many blacks were in schools in 1876?
70,000
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What was Booker T. Washington's strategy for achieving civil rights?
accommodation
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When was the Atlanta Compromise speech?
1895
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What was W.E.B Dubois' original group called?
Niagara Movement
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What were the Jim Crow laws?
Southern laws allowing segregation
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How many African American children could not write in 1865?
95%
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Compared to how many in 1890?
65%
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Black voting statistics in Louisiana:
1896 - 130,000 AA voters, 1900 - 5,300 AA voters
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What percentage of African Americans lived in the South in 1900?
90%
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Example of a black parallel business?
North Carolina Mutual Life Assurance Company
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Who published an expose of lynchings in Memphis?
Ida B. Wells
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How many blacks were lynched in 1915?
69
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A key example of a lynching in 1899 was...
Sam Hose
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How much money did the Freedman's Bureau spend on schools from 1865 to 1871?

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$5,000,000

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When was the Freedman's Bureau shut down?

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Which President introduced the Force Acts?

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What year were the Black Codes introduced?

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