Exam 2 AMH2097 Key Terms Meghan Martinez 13th Amendment Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime 14th Amendment Defines citizenship contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause the Due Process Clause the Equal Process Clause the Equal Protection Clause and deals with post Civil War issues 15th Amendment Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race color or previous condition of servitude Vagrancy Laws are laws that prohibit a practice called loitering Loitering is usually defined as being and staying in a place with no purpose and no intention to move along Vagrancy laws are laws that prohibit just that Voting Laws Reconstruction has two senses the first covers the complete history of the entire U S from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern US from 1863 to 1877 as directed by Washington with the reconstruction of state and society Sharecropping free blacks worked on land owned by Southerners and had to buy tools from the owners and give up a large percentage of their profit as well Tenant Farming System where farmers rented their land from the landowner and were allowed to grow whatever crop they wanted England took over the Irish s land Ku Klux Klan a paramilitary group against black freedom and black rights The KKK is a far right terrorist group that was anti black President Grant took actions to suppress the group but the reemerge in the 1920s and after WWII Poll Tax was used as implicit pre condition of the exercise of the ability to vote Many Southern states enacted poll tax laws as a means of restricting eligible voters Grandfather Clause is a situation in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future situations An example would be any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax Jim Crow Laws was a white faced man who started up Jim Crow racism State and local laws segregating blacks and whites in public places Separate but Equal The Great Migrations The movement of approximately 2 million blacks from the South to the Northeast and Midwest in response to the influx of industrial opportunities and the hostile racial climate that remained in the South Benjamin pop Singleton was the leader of the mass exodus He believed that blacks would never gain equality while in the South Post Civil War Migrations During and after the Civil War emancipated men and women moved to secure their freedom At the same time many northern free blacks went south as soldiers and other black men and women traveled south to teach and help lead communal institutions Industrial Migration People moved from rural areas to more urban areas growing industrial cities in search of work mainly during the industrial revolution community Company WWI Migration Between 300 000 and 1 000 000 African Americans moved north during this period largely in response to an increased number of unskilled factory job openings as northern manufacturers boosted production for World War I Black Institutions develop in the north include church and business churches become prominent and very important in the community Business run by black people and the money is spent by the blacks so it is going back to the black Madame CJ Walker was an American entrepreneur and a philanthropist regarded as the first female self made millionaire in America She made her fortune by developing and marketing a successful line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded Madam C J Walker Manufacturing Harlem Renaissance it was based on the concept of racial pride New Negro It was aimed at uplifting the black population WEB Du Bois black man born free started the Talented Tenth and whites lack of responsibility Those who can read and are all ready educated should serve the rest of the 9 tenths Langston Hues was an American poet social activist novelist playwright and columnist He was one of the earliest innovators of the then new literary art form jazz poetry Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist anthropologist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance Of Hurston s four novels and more than 50 published short stories plays and essays she is best known for her 1937 novel WWII Migration During the war many countries restricted migration but after the Their Eyes Were Watching God war migration skyrocketed Tuskegee Airmen popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought 91st Infantry Nickname Wild West Divison Fought in both WWI and WWII Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws racial segregation in public places and in schools Voting Rights Act of 1965 everyone is allowed to vote and all the laws are lifted Scots Irish Scottish who immigrated to Ireland before immigrating to America Backcountry deragatory term the English would call where the Scots Irish would Appalachian Mountains W Penn North Carolina W Virginia Kentucky and New Lights type of religion that is foreign to many people no building going to meet outside and be loud with singing and dancing Traveling Ministers minister will not live in the community but a couple will Families and Clans people in your family that have the same last name as you travel the area and visit them alliances will exist among them Highlander Games are events held throughout the year in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage especially that of the Scottish highlands in WWII and employment live tennessee Warriors minute man fight in the war war of 1812 1 3 of the military force Minute Men Minutemen were members of well prepared militia companies of select men from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War War of 1812 was a 32 month military conflict between the US and the British Empire and their Indian allies which resulted in no territorial change between the Empire and the USA but a resolution of many issues which remained from the American War of Independence Proto Industrial Revolution before the industrial revolution clothing labor food processing need unskilled labor s The Irish 1830 1880 coming in the first wave New York where they locate first Boston where they locate first Five Points The New York City slum that was known as a place of prostitution racial
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