What was the basic philosophy of the Civil Rights Movement, although many people died in the struggle?
Nonviolence
100
What President signed the 1965 Voting Rights Acts?
Lyndon Johnson
100
This Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in America.
13th Amendment
100
In what 1857 decision did the Supreme Court state that “Blacks have no rights that a White man needs to respect?”
Dred Scott Decision
100
What was the first territory to abolish slavery in 1776?
Vermont
200
This African American woman’s refusal to give up her seat to a White man led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955.
Rosa Parks
200
This civil rights leader coined the phrase, “by any means necessary.”
Malcolm X
200
This civil rights leader coined the phrase, “by any means necessary.”
Malcolm X
200
This abolitionist started the newspaper, the North Star in 1847.
Frederick Douglass
200
This term refers to rights given to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution and its Amendments.
Civil Rights
300
This slave sued for his freedom in the United States Supreme Court, 1846.
Dred Scott
300
This South African leader was elected President of South Africa in 1994 after serving over 27 years in prison for his political views.
Nelson Mandela
300
On what date was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
April 4, 1968
300
She was considered the “Moses of Her People.”
Harriet Tubman
300
This law abolished literacy tests as requirement for registering to vote.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
400
This Amendment to the United States Constitution officially made African Americans United States citizens.
14th Amendment
400
Who had the reputation of being the greatest Underground Railroad Conductor of her time, making 19 perilous trips to the deep South and guiding over 3,000 slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
400
What was the first colony in 1641 to legalize slavery?
Massachusetts
400
In 1961, James Farmer organized these throughout the South to challenge segregation of interstate bus terminals.
Freedom Riders
400
In 2004, what former slave and leader of the Underground Railroad, received the $11,750 pension owed her by the United States government, 90 years after her death?
Harriet Tubman
500
This boxer refused military induction by claiming to be a minister, thus
allowing him to be a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.
Muhammad Ali
500
She is known as Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in America.
Rosa Parks
500
This United States Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans were inhuman and had no rights.
Dred Scott Decision
500
What President formally apologized to African Americans for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment that began in 1932 and ended in 1972?
Bill Clinton
500
This Amendment to the United States Constitution granted African Americans the right to vote.