Reconstruction Era
Jim Crow
Civil Rights
Mass Incarceration
Random Facts
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What year did reconstruction happen?

1863

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Were Jim Crow Laws passed before Reconstruction or after Reconstruction?

After

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When did the civil rights movement take place?

The 1950s and 1960s

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How much does the US hold the world's prison population 

25 percent
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Which gas will disappear between 15 to 20 years? 

Helium

200

Who was the 16th president?

Abraham Lincoln

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How did Jim Crow Laws affect African American's suffrage?

Denied African American's suffrage

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Which Supreme Court case ruled segregation as unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education

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Which presidential administration created the three strikes law

Clinton

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This is the only fruit that bears it's seeds on the outside.

Strawberry

300

 Who was the first impeached president?

Andrew Johnson

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After Reconstruction, where were Jim Crow Laws mainly passed?

The South 

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Which president initiated the War on poverty

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Who had created a presidential ad depicting racial criminality linking to African Americans?

George H. W. Bush

300

What is the oldest city in the world?

Jericho, Palestine

400

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Gave freedom to African Americans

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What are the origins of Jim Crow?

It was a blackface performance by a white man called Jump Jim Crow  

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What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and should blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them.

Malcom X

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Who is more likely to serve longer and more punitive crimes?

African Americans

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Before the 17th century, these vegetables used to be mainly purple, not the bright warm color we see them as today.

Carrot

500

These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics

The Radical Republicans

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Which song has reflected the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation in the south?

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday

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In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?

What is stated that separate but equal was constitutional

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Who order the War on Drugs program and declared illegal drugs as Public enemy number one

President Richard Nixon

500

How many trees are there in the world?

3.04 Trillion

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