American cultures 1877–1900 (OCR GCSE History B (Schools History Project)): Flashcards

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The impact of economic, social and political change on the lives of African Americans
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Year U.S. Civil War ended

1865

How many slaves freed after Civil War?

Over four million

Ku Klux Klan's actions against formerly enslaved

Terrorised, prevented voting, suppressed them

Sharecropping definition

Black farmers worked without pay

Exoduster Movement: year & number to Kansas

1879, 40,000 African-Americans

Jim Crow laws period

1877 to 1965

Jim Crow laws legal doctrine

Separate but equal

National Assoc. of Coloured Women founded

1896; advocated for women's suffrage & civil rights

Niagara Movement founders and year

W.E.B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, 1905

When were CORE and SNCC founded?

1960

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