Exam 2: Slavery Unwilling to Die- the Historical Development of Systemic Racism

What was the position of white women in this system?

The first Jim Crow railroad cars were established in ____________.

Because of slavery, the South was the most economically prosperous and politically powerful U.S. region from the mid-1700s to the 1850s.

New York City's famous Wall Street area was one of the first colonial markets where whites sold enslaved black Americans.

As of _________, when the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. government was among only four of the 192 countries to vote against these rights. (Later, under President Barack Obama, the government reversed this position.)

In the decade preceding the Civil War, _________ of white families in southern and border states legally owned nearly _________ black Americans.

By the 1880s and 1890s legal segregation was linked to the white elite's successful attempt to disenfranchise black voters and reassert the power of the whites-only Republican Party against inroads made during Reconstruction by a more diverse southern Democratic Party.

During the 1933-45 period of the Nazism in Europe, approximately half of the Democratic Party's all-white male members in Congress represented Jim Crow states, and neither major party sought to curtail the race laws so admired by German lawyers and judges.

Larger plantation owners were early capitalists.

By the early 1900s Jim Crow segregation was the rule throughout southern and border states, but NOT in parts of northern and western states.

Lynchings were savage events often with a strongly ritualized character. Describe the lynching account from the 1940s, involving a black man accused of trying to rape a white woman.

Discuss how any serious understanding of the development of European wealth must center on African colonialism.

The trade in enslaved Africans was begun by the ____________ and ____________ as they developed overseas empires.

The Confederacy lost the war, but fought on for "twelve more years - using every weapon at its disposal, including the ultimate one of mass terrorism - until the nation finally acceded to most of the Confederacy's modified war aims." Explain.

Numerous narratives from enslaved women recount sexual exploitation, including that of Celia. Who was Celia and what happened to her?

What did the Hayes Compromise of 1877 mean for African Americans?

Some 3,513 lynchings of black men and 76 lynchings of black women were recorded for the years 1882 to 1927, but many more were not recorded.

At the time of the American Revolution, the slave trade was, in Lorenzo Greene's detailed analysis, the "very basis of the economic life of New England; about it revolved, and on it depended, most of [the region's] other industries." Explain.

The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson:

In the English colonies of North America, Indigenous Americans were usually a major source of labor.