Vocabulary #1
A person who rented farmland from a landowner after slavery ended
Servant Sharecropper Scalawag
SHARECROPPER
Disease that can rob a person of the abiilty to walk:
Strep Throat Polio Measles
POLIO
In the reading about Roland Devecoueur, what country was he from?
TAHITI UNITED STATES HAITI
HAITI
The year Thurgood Marshall argued in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1958 1999 1954
1954
Which of the following is an infinitive?
to the store above to play
TO PLAY
The practice of separating people into groups, often based upon race.
Civil Rights Segregration Selling
SEGREGATION
What other disease did Wilma Rudolph suffer from?
Scarlet Fever Mumps Rubella
SCARLET FEVER
The first African-American justice on the Supreme Court.
C. Thomas S. Alito Thurgood Marshall
THURGOOD MARSHALL
CIVIL RIGHTS are rights that ensure that people are
treated __________ by the __________.
FAIRLY LAW
Words used to modify a noun.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE
In what year did Ed Dight, Jr. get accepted into the astronaut training program?
1950 1962 1988
1962
Name the three crops that drove the slave trade to a large degree.
COTTON TOBACCO SUGARCANE
This track star won a medal as a 16 year old runner.
W. Rudolph J. Kersee G. Davenport
WILMA RUDOLPH
What was Roland Devecouer trained in before he even came to the US? (pick two)
LAWYER SINGER MATHEMATICIAN
LAWYER and MATHEMATICIAN
am, are, is, was, were, seem, be, been, and become are all:
Action verbs Helping verbs Linking Verbs
LINKING VERBS
To treat someone differently than other people
Congratulate Discriminate Abominate
One of the 3 crops that drove the slave trade.
Wheat Tea Cotton
This man was denied the astronaut program. Based entirely on the color of his skin.
ED DWIGHT, JR.
The President that did not meet Jesse Owens after the 1936 success.
D. Eisenhower F.D. Roosevelt Abe Lincoln
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
The word "TO" followed by an action.
INFINITIVE
On December 1st, 1955, what happened in Montgomery, Alabama?
ROSA PARKS WAS ARRESTED
The Law School that turned down Thurgood Marshall because he was black.
Harvard Maryland USC
MARYLAND
This tennis player has won more Grand Slam titles than any other woman.
Kat Williams Serena Williams Ted Williams
SERENA WILLIAMS
Boxing Champion that lost 3 years of his career because he refused to fight in Vietnam.
M. Ali L. Spinks L. Holmes
MUHAMMAD ALI
What did Wilma Rudolph do after she retired from athletics?
Nurse Teacher Senator
TEACHER