Immigration to the US
Jim Crow
The KKK
Civil Rights
Radical Organisations
100

The Red Scare

What was the term for the fear of communist revolution in the USA?


100

Literacy test

What was one of the methods used to prevent Black people from registering to vote in the South?

100

Lynching

What was the term for a mob murder, usually organised by the Klan?

100

The case that ended 'Separate but Equal'

What was the Brown v Topoeka Board of Education verdict?

100

Detroit

Where were the most serious riots in 1967?

200

Open Door

What was the nickname of US immigration policy in the 19th century?

200

Black Codes

What was the other name given to the segregation laws in the South?

200

Invisible Empire

What was the name given to the unseen power that the Klan had over politicians, judges and the police?

200

Central High School

What was the name of the school in in Arkansas where the 'Little Rock Nine' helped desegregate education?
200

The Honorable Elijah Muhammed

Who was the leader of the Nation of Islam?

300

Sacco and Vanzetti

Who were executed for armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company?

300

The 14th and 15th Amendments

What changes to the Constitution were meant to ensure equal rights for Black people?

300

over 4,000,000

What was the estimated membership of the KKK at its peak in the mid-1920s

300

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

What was the full name of the organisation headed by MLK that organised civil rights protests?

300

Stokely Carmichael

Who was the main student leader of the Black Power movement?

400

Alphonse Capone

Who was the leading Mafia boss in Chcago during the 1920s?

400

Miscegenation

What was the name given to the banned relationship between people of different races?

400

The Birth of a Nation

What was the name of DW Griffith 1915 movie that celebrated the KKK?

400

Edmund Pettus Bridge

What was the name of the bridge in Selma that activists tried to cross in 1965?

400

Little

What was Malcolm X's 'slave' surname?

500

The Dillingham Commission

What was the name of the Committee set up to decide immigration quotas in the 1920s

500

Plessey v Ferguson

What was the name of the 1896 case that led to the Supreme Court 'Separate but Equal' decision?

500

Roy Bryant and JW Milam

Who murdered Emmett Till?

500

New Orleans

What was the final destination of the Freedom Riders?
500
The two founding members of the Black Panthers Party

Who were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?

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