Lesson Check (3/12) | The Harlem Renaissance

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Place these events in the correct order.

1910 - Due to Jim Crow Laws, labor shortages in the North and few opportunities in the South, many African Americans begin moving north seeking a better life. This is later called The Great Migration.
During Reconstruction, many white supremacy groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, try to prevent African Americans from experiencing their rights as free people. The Enforcement Act of 1871 is passed in an effort to protect their rights.
From 1890 to 1908, Democrats in the South pass laws to bypass the Enforcement Act. These laws later became known as Jim Crow Laws.
Jump Jim Crow is a song and dance performed by Thomas Rice. It features a character that was meant to mock and imitate African Americans. Rice took this traveling performance all over the country, starting around 1828.
Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing all slaves. This becomes final when the Civil War ends with the defeat of the South in 1965.
Alain Locke publishes The New Negro (1925) and gives voice to African Americans who are thirsty for social, political and artistic change. This spurs the New Negro Movement, later to become known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Lesson Check (3/12) | The Harlem Renaissance

Poslední aktualizace about 1 month ago

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Place these events in the correct order.

1910 - Due to Jim Crow Laws, labor shortages in the North and few opportunities in the South, many African Americans begin moving north seeking a better life. This is later called The Great Migration.
During Reconstruction, many white supremacy groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, try to prevent African Americans from experiencing their rights as free people. The Enforcement Act of 1871 is passed in an effort to protect their rights.
From 1890 to 1908, Democrats in the South pass laws to bypass the Enforcement Act. These laws later became known as Jim Crow Laws.
Jump Jim Crow is a song and dance performed by Thomas Rice. It features a character that was meant to mock and imitate African Americans. Rice took this traveling performance all over the country, starting around 1828.
Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing all slaves. This becomes final when the Civil War ends with the defeat of the South in 1965.
Alain Locke publishes The New Negro (1925) and gives voice to African Americans who are thirsty for social, political and artistic change. This spurs the New Negro Movement, later to become known as the Harlem Renaissance.

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After the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves needed help to establish themselves as free people. Lincoln tried to help them by:

Passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Establishing the Freedman's Bureau

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Přetahovatelná položka		Odpovídající položka
A system of separating blacks and whites in public spaces.		1965
A way to prevent people who could not read and write from voting.		Minstrel
Jim Crow Laws would remain legal in the South until ___________.		Literacy Tests
A type of entertainer who performs songs or recites poetry, often in costume or with a painted face.		Black Codes
Organization that worked to deny basic rights to African Americans.		Segregation
The collapse of these led to Jim Crow Laws.		Ku Klux Klan

Harlem was originally a white neighborhood, but due to construction and the railroad, the area became overdeveloped. Many factors resulted in the Great Migration of African Americans to locations such as Harlem. null

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The following are excerpts of poems written by Langston Hughes. Match the poems with the correct description. Click on the poems to enlarge them.

Přetahovatelná položka		Odpovídající položka
		Imagery to describe a musical atmosphere.
		Similes to describe sorrows of dreams unfulfilled.
		Metaphors to describe hardships and the strength to keep going.
		Metaphors to inspire African Americans to reach for their dreams.
		Personification to illustrate how obstacles are walls to dreams.