Amendments
Legal Battles
Vocabulary
Martin Luther King, JR.
Hodgepodge
100

How many Civil War Amendments were added to the Constitution?

What is 3

100

After reconstruction, gains were taken away through Violence and intimidation when THESE laws were passed by Southern states.

What are Jim Crow Laws

100

The Legal end of segregation

Desegregation

100

The massive movement for racial equality was known as this movement

What is the Civil Rights Movement

100
African Americans were forced to use separate, poor quality facilities and services such as drinking fountains, schools, restaurants and this very important 'facility'

What are Restrooms

200

This amendment permanently abolished Slavery in 1865

What is 13th Amendment

200

Jim Crow laws legally established _____________, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites. 

What is segregation

200

The full equality of people of all races in the use of public facilities and services

What is Integration

200

Martin Luther King, Jr. led people to complete boycotts, Marches and sit ins to hopefully get the government to change the laws of this man

Who is Jim Crow

200

African Americans had to pay this if they wanted to vote

What are Poll Taxes

300

This Amendment gave all male citizens the right to vote in 1870

What is the 15th Amendment

300

Horner Plessy was arrested for sitting in the Whites-Only section of a train car. What was this case known as?

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

300

A correction or change designed to improve a text or piece of legislation

What is an Ammendment

300

Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that in order for the law to change, things had to happen to make the transition to new laws this...

What is peaceful

300

This had to be passed before African Americans could vote

What is a literacy Test

400

This was the reason for the 13th Amendment

What is to permanently Abolish Slavery

400

Barbara John's case was combined with 4 other school desegregation cases that collectively went before the U.S ______________________

What is Supreme Court

400

An unfavorable opinion that is formed beforehand without any reason or actual experience

What is Prejudice

400

What was Martin Luther King Jr's profession along with being a civil rights activist

What is a pastor

400

Jim Crow Laws claimed that the public facilities were "__________" but "__________" although this was certainly not true.

What is Separate but Equal

500

This Amendment granted Civil Rights to all citizens in 1868

What is the 14th Amendment

500

This case was combined with 4 others to come up with this court case that was brought before the Supreme Court. 

What is Brown v Board of Education

500
This is unfairly treating a group of people different from another group of people

What is Discrimination

500

This was the three types of peaceful protests that MLK, Jr. led people to participate in

What are boycotts, sit-ins, and strikes

500

Who was a 16-year-old student who led a strike against segregation. NAACP attorney Oliver Hill sued Prince Edward County on her and the students of R.R. Moton High School.

Who is Barbara Johns

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