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Ku Klux Klan
The KKK devoted to terrorizing and intimidating African Americans and their white Republican allies. Beat and murdered freed people and intimidated voters and silenced political activists. They thought they could make the South White supremacy again through violent actions. -
Black Codes
designed to restrict freedom of Black labor force and keep freed people as close to slave status as possible. Its crucial and abusive laws help change and transition to the voting rights and to the women suffrage. -
African American voting
Alfred R. Waud is a key figure. Cover of "Harper's Weekly" newspaper that depicts a black man casting his first vote. The 15th Amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote; white males were fearful of black political participation and republicans were determined that blacks had all the rights of citizenship. -
The first women suffrage law
Although the Fifteenth Amendment did not include women as qualified citizens to cast votes, individual states still had the power to adopt their own voting right. Wyoming became the first state to pass women’s suffrage law, stating "every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this territory, may, at every election to be Holden under the laws thereof, cast her vote." Soon after that, many other states were to follow Wyoming’s footstep and passed their own voting rights for women. -
Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells was a journalist and teacher and stood alone at during a hard time where it was dangerous. She stood up and wrote in a black newspaper against the wrongs of a black store owner and other blacks who were lynched for protecting themselves against white people attacking them in Memphis, Tennessee. Later she help put together the National Association of Colored Women. -
Atlanta Compromise speech
Made by Booker T Washington, an ex-slave founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881. He stressed patience, manual training and hard work for blacks. He -
Niagara Falls Conference
Founded the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) -
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The Great Migration
African Americans being oppressed in the south gave rise to the Great Migration to the north were there was better job opportunities and potential for growth. With news spreading of such places in the north, over 350,000 African Americans moved north to places like Harlem, New York which turned into The Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance help establish and grow the African American culture -
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Nineteenth Amendment
After decades of suffrage movements, the Nineteenth Amendment was finally passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. This amendment states, "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This marked the date that the federal government had officially recognized and given women the power to voice their concerns and to change. -
Immigration Act
Cut quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%. Varying countries were only allowed to send a certain number of its citizens to America each year
