Civil Rights Review

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Across
  1. 2. Raided a national armory at Harper’s Ferry, in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt.
  2. 7. Wanted to preserve the Union. Free-Soiler.
  3. 8. Founded the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school for African Americans. Worked with white leaders. Thought African Americans would have to wait and prove equality
  4. 10. Fees you had to pay to vote
  5. 11. ___ v. Board of Education. This court case overturned Plessy V. Ferguson. Said schools must be desegregated .
  6. 14. What most freedmen did after the Civil War to make money, often working on the same farms they were once slaves on. Kept them economically dependent on whites
  7. 15. This Amendment said FreedMEN can vote
  8. 16. The movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities to get jobs and escape racism
  9. 22. Fought against lynching
  10. 26. A surge in African American art and creativity in Harlem, NY as a result of the Great Migration
  11. 27. Attempted to sue for his freedom. The court ruled he was property & cannot sue.
  12. 28. The time period after the Civil War in which the South was “re-built”
  13. 29. A violent racist group that sought to suppress freedmen
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  1. 1. Created schools for freedmen and poor whites
  2. 3. Editor of the abolitionist newspaper “the Liberator”
  3. 4. Co-founded the NAACP. Demanded equality NOW!
  4. 5. Believed Civil rights was a black only movement. Advocated meeting violence with violence. Founded the Black Panthers.
  5. 6. Wanted to punish white Southern leaders, and help the freedmen as much as possible.
  6. 9. This Amendment established basic rights for freedmen
  7. 12. Unfair tests people had to take to vote
  8. 13. This court case said segregation was legal
  9. 17. Worked with white leaders. Advocated civil disobedience.led the March on Washington
  10. 18. Declared all slaves in rebelling states were free, but freed no one. Made the war about slavery which gives the north a new reason to fight, and prevents the British from helping the Confederacy.
  11. 19. General laws that restricted black rights
  12. 20. Segregation laws
  13. 21. Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Exposed the horrors of slavery.
  14. 23. If your dad or granddad could vote, so could you. Allowed whites to get around the voting restrictions
  15. 24. This Amendment abolished slavery
  16. 25. This term describes people who want to end all slavery everywhere.