American History
Important document in American history that was made in connection with the American Independence War.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
The two decades in which the Civil Rights Movement and their struggle for social justice mainly took place.
What are the 1950s and 1960s?
The names of the three modes of persuasion in rhetorics.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
The part of The Bill of Rights that the documentary focuses on.
What is the 13th Amendent?
The main character in "One Friday Morning".
Who is Nancy Lee (Johnson)?
The war between The United States of America and The Confederate States of America in 1861-65 that broke out mainly because of Lincoln's wish to abolish slavery.
What was The (American) Civil War?
Famous female civil rights-activist, who became famous nation-wide for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in 19655.
Who was Rosa Parks?
What is grounds?
According to the documentary, The US is home to this percentage of the World's prison population.
What is 25%? (despite being home to only 5% of the world population)
The official poverty threshold established by the US Government based on what a household needs to earn annually in order to just get by in life.
What is the poverty line?
Modern political and social movement which protests against racism and especially police violence against Black people.
What is Black Lives Matter?
Radical civil rights-activist, who wanted black people to fight back and greatly influenced the Black Power-movement.
Who was Malcolm X?
In Toulmin's model of argumentation, this is the final part of an argument, which is a statement that links the grounds to the claim in order to make the argument believable.
What is the warrant?
The fraction of black men in prison in The US.
What is 1/3 - or every third black man?
The main message in "One Friday Morning"
(What is the fact) That The US (in the 40s) still has a blatant racism-problem and does not live up to its ideals of equality - and that people need to fight for change.
The purpose (intention) of Abraham Lincoln's speech The Gettysberg Address.
What is to motivate the people and remind them of what they are fighting for (i.e. why the soldiers gave their lives)?
Important historical event that took place in August 1963, when civil rights activists went to Washington, D.C. in order to fight for equal rights for African Americans and MLK held his famous speech.
What was The March on Washington?
The acronym for the five elements that make up the circumstances of a speech?
What is S.O.A.P.S.? (Sender Occasion Audience Purpose Subject)
Silent movie released in 1915, which demonised black men and contributed to the Ku Klux Klan's rise in popularity.
What is Birth of a Nation?
A person or household's ability to move up (and down) the social ladder in a given society.
What is social mobility?
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Landmark Supreme Court case in 1954, in which the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
Identify the two rhetorical devices used by Martin Luther King in the following quote from IHaD:
"This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice" (p. 1)
What are antithesis (contrast) and metaphor?
The thesis (main claim) in the documentary.
(What is the fact) That the 13th Amendment offered a loophole that continues to be exploited in order to discriminate against, lock up and shoot especially African-Americans.
When racism is imbedded into society’s different structures and systems, including the political system, the educational system, and the healthcare sector.
What is institutional racism? (alternatively: systemic racism)