African American History Terms
Term Description
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servidtude.
This amendment made the former slaves citizens and gave them equal protection under the law.
15th Amendment
Sharecroppers
This amendment provided sufferage/voting rights for black males.
Majority of freed slaves went into this "profession" at the end of the Civil War, which led to a cycle of debt and depression for Southern tennant farmers.
Laws intended to place limits on the newly held freedoms of former slaves, which
Black Codes
The Compromise of 1877
Poll Taxes & Literacy Tests
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B DuBois
NAACP
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Birth of a Nation
The Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey
Marian Anderson states, and as a result allowed white conservatives to regain power in the South, increased the number of lynchings, and disenfranchised black voters
Methods used to deny African Americans the right to vote during the era of segreation.
Gave a speech known as the Atlanta Compromise, opposed poltical agitation, economic self help for African Americans, and accomodation to white society.
Progressive Era Civil Rights advocate. Wanted social, political, economic equality for
African Americans. Founded the NAACP in 1909.
Civil Rights organization focused on using the court system to achieve equality and justice.
Progressive Era Civil Rights advocate. Publically denounced lynchings in the south and is considered an early leader in the American Women's Rights Movement
Film by D.W. Griffith that glorified the efforts of the KKK during Reconstruction and let to a resurgance in membership during the 1920's.
Outpouring of African American culture, art, and literature during the 1920's. Key figures include Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, and Louis Armstrong.
Civil Rights advocate that championed the "Back to Africa" movment and Black
Nationalism duriing the early 20th century.
World reknowned singer that was banned from performing by the Daughters of the
American Revolution at Constitution Hall. Caused 1st Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Black Power Movement
Civil Rights advocate who believed in peaceful integration in all aspects of American society, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and came to national spotlight after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Civil Rights advocate who along with Stokley Carmichael, believed in the use of violence to demand civil rights for all African Americans.
A combination of the Nation of Islam, and the efforts of Stokley Carmichael and organizations like the Black Panthers, helped create this Black Nationalist
Women's History Terms
Term
Anne Hutchinson
Abigail Adams
The Cult of Domesticity
Description
Challenged Puritan religious authorities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Early proponent of women's rights, who believed that women would benefit from the republican ideals of eqality and individual rights. Wife to a future President.
Refers to the idealization of women in their roles as wives and mothers.
Republican Motherhood
Sarah Moore Grimke
Suggested that women would be responsible for rearing their children to be citizens of the new American Republic, by emphasizing family and religious values.
Event organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton that called for women's rights in suffrage,
The Seneca Falls Convention right to retain property after marriage, equal educational opportunties, right to divorce and child custody rights.
Declaration of the
Sentiments & Resolutions
Issued by the Seneca Falls Convention that demanded equal rights for women.
Borrowed text from the Declaration of Independence.
One of the first women to publically support the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage.
Best known for founding the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago during the
Jane Addams
Dorothea Dix
Margaret Sanger
19th Ammendment
Eleanor Roosevelt
Betty Friedan
Industrial Revolution.
Worked tirelessly on behalf of the mentally ill.
Outspoken reformer who openly championed birth control for women.
Gave American women the right to vote.
Strong supporter of women's rights during the New Deal.
Wrote The Feminine Mystique, and was the first president of the National
Organization for Women (NOW).