Grammar!!!
I wanted to go to the park, it started raining before we left.
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A. Comma splice
This amendment was written to grant equal protection of the law for all citizens.
14th Amendment
Jim Crow is a fictional name that came from ______.
... a character from an old racist form of entertainment call a "minstrel show" where white entertainers get in "blackface" and mock Black people. The character was part of a song called "Jump Jim Crow."
After the teacher collected our assignments.
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B. Capitalization error
C. Fragment
C. Fragment
This person led the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, later being beaten by police, fracturing his skull.
John Lewis
Because we had to finish our homework before dinner.
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B. Fragment
Reconstruction lasted from ______ - ______. (range of years)
1865-1877
"Jim Crow" Laws legalized _____, where whites and people of color had "separate, but equal" facilities.
segregation
I finished my science project I presented it to the class the next day.
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B. Run-on sentence
A voter suppression tactic that required a payment to vote.
poll tax
My sister loves to read books she visits the library every weekend.
A. Capitalization error
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C. Run-on sentence
This amendment granted Black men the right to vote, and "prohibits denying a citizen the right to vote based on 'race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'"
15th Amendment
In the Jim Crow South, voter suppression laws were created in southern states. The _____ Amendment protects state's rights to create such laws.
10th
My favorite holiday is thanksgiving because I enjoy spending time with my family.
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B. Capitalization error
This section of the Voting Rights Act said that if a state had a history of suppressing people's votes, they would require federal approval if they wanted to change any election laws.
Section 5
on saturday, we went to the beach and built a sandcastle.
A. Fragment
B. Capitalization error
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B. Capitalization error
This amendment essentially abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
Because of Jim Crow laws, we know the story of ________, a Black woman who famously refused to give up her seat on a bus while she was sitting in the "white" section.
Rosa Parks
The movie was very exciting, everyone cheered at the end.
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C. Comma splice
This is when voting districts are redrawn to create a political advantage.
gerrymandering
The dog barked loudly, the neighbors came outside to see what happened.
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A. Comma splice
In the "Compromise of 1877," The Southern Democrats conceded the presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for ______. This effectively ended the Reconstruction Era.
...removing federal troops from the former Confederate States (who were there to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments).
This terrorist group used violence and scare tactics to intimidate Black people in the South throughout the Jim Crow era.
The Ku Klux Klan or KKK
While we waited for the bus, my brother played a game on his phone.
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B. No error
This court case asserted that section 4B of the Voting Rights Act (the formula used to determine if a state had enough of a history of voter suppression) was unconstitutional, making section 5 virtually non-existent.
Shelby County vs Holder