Civil War & Reconstruction
Which three amendments are collectively known as the Civil War Amendments?
13th, 14th, 15th
The laws that were passed by southern states that effectively stripped African Americans of their right to vote were known as what?
Jim Crow Laws
What is the name of the famous speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered to a crowd of more than 250,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in August of 1963?
I Have a Dream
Which state was the first to allow women the right to vote in 1890?
Wyoming
What does AIM stand for?
American Indian Movement
What is the name of the white supremacist group founded during the Reconstruction Era that committed numerous extralegal violent acts against African Americans and continues to exist today?
Ku Klux Klan
Name two ways that Jim Crow laws stripped African Americans of voting rights.
Poll taxes, voting vouchers, literacy tests, registration purges, etc.
Which young Civil Rights activist who participated in the march from Selma to Montgomery later served as a Congressman for Georgia for over 30 years?
John Lewis
Which amendment guaranteed women's suffrage?
19th
Who was James Meredith?
First African American man to attend the University of Mississippi.
What was the 15th Amendment meant to do?
Whose brutal murder and subsequent open casket funeral helped to spark the Civil Rights Movement?
Emmett Till
What was the name of the Civil Rights activists who rode buses through the south to protest segregated bus lines?
Freedom Riders
The U.S. Department of Justice has found that which group of people faces a murder rate that is more than 10 times the national average?
What were "sit-ins"?
Protesters would sit at segregated lunch counters until they were served.
What were the black codes?
Laws passed by southern states to limit the freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
Rosa Parks' arrest sparked a bus boycott in what Alabama city?
Montgomery
Which Civil Rights leader was an Islamic minister who was assassinated in 1965 while giving a speech in Harlem?
Malcolm X
Who were the two leaders who fought for better working conditions and increased pay for Latino farm workers?
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
How did television coverage play a role in the Civil Rights Movement?
People from all over the country could see the violence used against Civil Rights activists and it gained support for their cause.
The 14th Amendment has been called one of the most important amendments to ever be passed because it guarantees what?
Equal protection under the law for minority groups.
Which Supreme Court case ruled that "separate, but equal" was legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the Black Panther party platform?
Ten-Point Program
Which Supreme Court case ruled that the 14th Amendment applied to all racial groups and not just blacks and whites?
Hernandez v. Texas
Which two men were the founders of the Black Panther Party?
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale