Costa house level 2 questions
vocabulary
costa house level 3 questions
Fill in the blank
100
Inscribe the two women's name that lied about getting raped ?
Victoria Price and Ruby Bates
100
Define the word attorney in paragraph 10 of the Scottsboro boys article ?
A person appointed to act for another in business or legal matters.
100
Speculate why Leroy Wright didn't get death penalty like the other boys did?
Leroy Wright was to young to receive the death penalty .
100
The Alabama ______? upheld the original convictions, but the boys and their legal counsel brought the case to an even higher court, the U.S. Supreme Court.
use paragraph 8 to find your answer
Supreme court
200
Classify why the the train had to stop in Scottsboro Alabama ?
The train had to stop in Scottsboro Alabama because a fight had broke out between nine boys and some white men
200
Define the word equality in paragraph 1 ?
The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
200
Summarize what the central idea of the article is ?
The Scottsboro boys were riding illegally on a train to Scottsboro , Alabama and got into a fight with two white men and got falsely accused of rapeing two women and 8 of the boys got sent to prison .
200
There are ______? in U.S. history that have received as much media attention as the trials of the nine Scottsboro Boys in 1931.
use paragraph 1 to find your answer
Few legal cases
300
Speculate why the two women lied about getting raped ?
The two women lied about getting raped to avoid getting charged with vagrancy and illegal sexual activity.
300
Define the word the fourteenth amendment in paragraph 8 ?
The fourteenth amendment is granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
300
Critique how Haywood Patterson's attorney built up a strong argument against the two women in paragraph 10?
Haywoods "defense attorney called numerous witnesses and built a strong argument that the two girls on the train had lied. Their story did not match medical evidence or the stories of other witnesses" "and he even got Ruby Bates to testify that the whole story had been made up"
300
Even though they had new hope for _____? now
use paragraph 9 to find your answer
Freedom
400
Explain why Ruby Bates sent a letter out explaining what she did was bad in paragraph 9 ?
Ruby Bates later felt bad about accusing the Scottsboro boys of raping her and she said “I know it was wrong to let those Negroes die on account of me.”
400
Define the word death penalty in paragraph 12?
The punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.
400
Predict how many weeks it took the Scottsboro trial to begin in paragraph 5?
The trial began two weeks after the Scottsboro boys arrest .
400
Their legal division convinced the boys’ parents to request _____? and launched detailed investigations into the rape accusations.
use paragraph 6 to find your answer
New trials
500
Generalize how many of the Scottsboro boys remained in Scottsboro alabama prison in 1938 ?
5 of the Scottsboro boys remained in prison
500
Define the word acquitted in paragraph 11 ?
To free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty
500
Detect what the white men that had also on the freight train accused the Scottsboro boys of in paragraph 3 ?
The white men accused the Scottsboro boys of assault .
500
Over the next ______?, the remaining five also made it out of the prison system, usually by receiving parole
use paragraph 12 to find your answer
12 years