Important Events
What economic practise (from 16th to 19th century) is one of the causes of the racism in the 1950s and 60s in USA?
Slavery
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
end segregation
What is a primary source?
Primary Sources are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
What is was a 'sit-in' during the Civil Rights Movt?
African Americans would 'sit' in segregated restaurants and refuse to leave after being denied service.
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
Civil Rights act of 1964
Who in 1963, gave the famous “ I have dream” speech?
Martin Luther King Jr
Which African American Civil Rights leader was assassinated in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr
What is bias?
prejudice for or against one person or group
What does segregation mean?
each race is kept separate from each other
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
To escape segregation & find better jobs
What white supremacist terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
the Ku Klux Klan
Which group of African American high-school students challenged racial segregation in the public schools of Arkansas?
Little Rock Nine
What is 'perspective'?
Perspective is the 'point of view' from which the creator of a source described historical events.
What is 'civil disobedience'?
This is the active refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority).
The Great Depression was hardest on African Americans because?
They were the first to lose their jobs, and did not have financial savings to help them through the Great Depression
What Civil rights leader thought that segregation should end now! Blacks should not have to wait for or try to earn their equality from whites. Blacks should also have the option to have whatever type education they wanted whether it be practical or academic.
W.E.B Dubois
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights
Declaration of Independence
What is 'reliability'?
Reliability is a source evaluation skill which asks you to draw a conclusion about the trustworthiness of a source.
What does 'Emancipation' mean?
The process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s
A period when African Americans made important contributions in music, literature, & art
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Lyndon Johnson
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Laws put in place to keep African Americans segregated from White Americans.
What is 'corroboration'?
Corroboration is the ability to compare information provided by two separate sources and find similarities between them.
What does "disenfranchisement" mean?
the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.