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Phases of African-American History (put these in order)
Terrorism & Jim Crow turn undo progress Temporary empowerment “Separate but equal” legitimized by the courts “Separate but equal is inherently unequal” (and now illegal) Epic battle to end slavery Slavery a “short-term”(?) solution to a labor supply problem Organized resistance & civil disobedience Constitution and voting (1st time) Constitution and voting (again!) Slavery becomes an entire economic and cultural institution and an inherent part of a region
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Phases of African-American History (put these in order)
Slavery a “short-term”(?) solution to a labor supply problem Slavery becomes an entire economic and cultural institution and an inherent part of a region Epic battle to end slavery Constitution and voting (1st time) Temporary empowerment Terrorism & Jim Crow turn undo progress “Separate but equal is inherently unequal” (and now illegal) “Separate but equal” legitimized by the courts Organized resistance & civil disobedience Constitution and voting (again!)
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Black Americans - Slavery
Indentured servitude, plantation economics & Bacon’s Rebellion Triangle trade (slaves, molasses, rum) Slow growth in slave population in early 1600s 1680s slaves outnumber whites in planation economies By 1720s, slave pop is self perpetuating Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibits slavery in new territories Missouri Compromise (1820) Cotton Gin & cotton economy Freedmen Slaves vs wage slaves Dred Scott Decision Reconstruction –(13th, 14th, 15th Amendments)
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Black Americans Reconstruction – new subjugation (KKK, black codes, sharecropping) Migrations to northern cities KKK in the 1920s W.E.B. Dubois & NAACP Booker T. Washington A. Philip Randolph C.O.R.E., SCLC, SNCC Executive Order 8802 Executive Order 9981 Brown vs Board (1954) Montgomery Bus Boycott ( ) 24th Amend (1964) – Poll Tax March on D.C. (1963) Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting Rights Act (1965) Urban Riots
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Native Americans Highly advanced civilizations in Central America
Advanced, but less complex civilizations in North America Hunter-gather & simple agriculture not strong enough or organized enough to resist European encroachment English – evacuate (removal from land) French – negotiate (trade) Spanish – subjugate & integrate (take over & intermarry)
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Native Americans Pequot War (1637, CT) Pontiac’s Rebellion
G. Washington recognized tribes as separate nations & would negotiate by treaties Tecumseh (1813) Assimilation & Christianizing Georgia, Jackson & the Cherokee (1828) 1830 Indian Removal Act Indians defeated in wars east of Miss. R. ( ) Trail of Tears ( ) Dawes Severalty Act (1887) Indian Reorganization Act (1934) Wounded Knee (1890) Eisenhower & push to the cities; Public Law 280 & efforts to terminate tribal recognition Alcatraz ( )& Wounded Knee (1973)
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Women Crucial to early New England success (early marriage & booming birthrate) S. women more powerful b/c more scarce (but all better off than women in England) New Jersey prohibits property owning women from suffrage (1807) “Republican Motherhood” (civic virtue, moral instruction) increased women’s educational opportunities Lowell Girls (1840s)
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Women Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, & Susan B. Anthony
Seneca Falls & Declaration of Sentiments Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Margaret Fuller (transcendentalist journalist) Sarah & Angelina Grimke (abolition) Temperance & abolition
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Women Growth of big cities and independent young women; “New Women” vs. “Gibson Girls” Progressivism, temperance & early political empowerment on the social level 19th Amendment (1920) 1920s: flappers, sexual liberation Rosie the Riveter Cult of Domesticity Women’s Liberation Inclusion Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (“accidental” progress) Unsuccessful effort to pass an Equal Rights Amendment
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