Which state was the first to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
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What was a famous Civil Rights Movement protest song?
"We Shall Overcome"
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Most slaves came from the
Gold Coast
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When was the voting right act passed?
1965.
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What was the North referred to as?
Yankees
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What was the South referred to as?
Rebels
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In 1948 what did Truman do to the military?
Truman desegregated the military
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Which crop was the most important to the South?
Cotton.
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Who said "Our Nation is Moving toward two societies,one black, one white separate but equal."
Kerner Commission.
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What are 3 main punishments slaves endured?
Branding, whipping, paddle
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What was the Lincoln-Douglas debate over?
Slavery and its place in the United States
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True or False: Abraham Lincoln was a member of the senate before becoming president.
True
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Name 3 reasons why slavery was not profitable
Total lack of development manufacturing, slaves could run away or rebel, master had to pay for healthcare, food, and clothing for the slaves, Southern economy relied solely on agriculture
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The _ required that escaped slaves in the North be returned to their southern owners.
Fugitive Slave Act
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Name 3 ways slavery was profitiable
Slave owners did not have to pay them, women slaves had children which were then free slaves, sold slaves for money, produced a lot of crops
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Name 3 ways slaves actively resisted slavery
Slaves would run away, underground rail road, and arson
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Name 3 ways slaves passively resisted slavery
Break machinery, work slow down, faking illness/injury
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What were the Black Codes?
A group of people who took away black's rights, and went around killing, being racist, and abusive towards blacks.
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Which President created the Secret Service?
Abraham Lincoln.
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Name 5 reasons slave spirituals were used
To pass time, feel better, express anger, sense of culture and bonding, reverence to their hardships, and to express their dream for freedom
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When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his "I have a Dream" speech?
August 28, 1963
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What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? When was it?
Nonviolence Movement, 1955-1956, Begins with Rosa Parks get arrested blacks refuse to ride busses.