SLAVERY
What continent did most of the slaves in the Americas come from?
Africa
Who assassinated Malcolm X?
Rivals within the Nation of Islam
What was the 13th Amendment?
Ended slavery
When was slavery abolished ?
December 6, 1865
Who led the courtroom battles against segregation?
Thurgood Marshall
Which person was one of the first African Americans elected to the U.S. Senate?
Tunis Campbell
What were people called who wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionists
When did Rosa Parks' bus boycott happen?
December 1955
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming were very similar to?
Slavery
Which president owned the largest number of enslaved people, more than 600 over the course of his life?
Thomas Jefferson
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his "I Have A Dream" speech?
Sept. 9, 1965
The Freedmen's Bureau provided all the following services to former slaves and poor whites except:
Guns
True or false: No U.S. president has ever issued a formal apology for slavery.
True
Which president supported the civil rights movement the least?
Dwight Eisenhower
Why did the Supreme Court allow Southern states to practice segregation?
They allowed it if accommodations were "separate but equal"