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Chapter 14 and 15 (Unit #3)
Study Guide
Information outside Chapters 14 and 15
Identify the purpose of each of the following Constitutional Amendments.
1. 13th
2. 14th
3. 15th
4. What happened during the period known as reconstruction after the Civil War?
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5. (See chart on page 462) Why did the number of black politicians in Congress decline so rapidly
after the reconstruction period?
6. What was the purpose of the Colored Farmer’s Alliance?
7. Why did white southerners (Democrats) consider the Populist Party to be such a threat?
8. Identify several techniques used by southern states to evade the 15th Amendment to the
Constitution.
9. What were Jim Crow laws?
10. Explain the “separate but equal” doctrine that was established by the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
11. Identify some of the “rules” associated with racial etiquette in the south.
12. What was the overall purpose of the riots identified on pages 476 an 477 of your textbook?
13. What is the difference between simple murder and lynching?
14. What different locations did black migrate to, to escape conditions in the post-Civil War south?
15. Explain how sharecropping, crop liens and peonage keep former slaves in a slave like existence
in the south.
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16. What was social Darwinism and how was it used against blacks in America?
17. Explain why “separate but equal” were considered very unequal by blacks in the south (see
chart on 501).
18. What was the Tuskegee Model of education?
19. Why did W.E.B. Du Bois disagree with the Tuskegee Model? Explain his “talented tenth”
argument.
20. What role did the church play in the struggle for black equality in the south?
21. Explain how the Buffalo Soldiers could be seen as an advancement and a setback in the struggle
for black equality in the United States.
22. From the perspective of black America, was the Spanish American War a step forward or step
back in race relations? Explain.
23. How were the experiences of blacks in labor unions (factories), medicine (doctors and nurses)
and the law (lawyers) similar?
24. In what ways did music and sports serve as in roads to blacks into mainstream American
culture?
25. Explain how the story of Jack Johnson was symbolic of the plight of blacks in America at the turn
of the 20th century.