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100
The most famous Civil Rights leader of all time. He advocated peaceful, nonviolent protest.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
President of the US during the Civil War. Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
American inventor who revolutionized America with the invention of the first automobile and the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
100
Ruled that separate but equal schools are unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
100

The document which the American colonies drafted to declare themselves a free and independent nation in which "all men are created equal, and are endowed with the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
The most prominent poet of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote "A Dream Deferred," "Mother to Son," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Who is Langston Hughes/
200
Author of "The Great Gatsby," the first work of literature that explored the problem with the American Dream -- oftentimes we don't achieve it. HOWEVER, we keep trying.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?


200
Escaped slave who wrote his autobiography, a huge accomplishment since most slaves could not learn to read or write.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
Ruled that slaves were property, not citizens, nor would they ever be
What is the Dred Scott decision?
200
The bondage of African Americans, which provided the basis of the South's agricultural economy
What is slavery?
300
This organization was formed in response to the Jim Crow Laws in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
300
Group of people who came to America and formed the earliest known settlements. They believed / acted as though people were obligated to make a difference in the world, but also believed that people were powerless to do anything but blindly follow God's will.
Who were the Puritans?
300
Group of people who separated themselves from the Anglican church, which they viewed as corrupt. They came to America for religious freedom.
What / who are Separatists?
300
Allowed racially-segregated facilities, as long as they were "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
300
The ability to better oneself and improve the quality of one's life
What is upward mobility?
400

Author of Utopia, a fictionalized account of an ideal society in which all people had all freedoms.

Who is Sir Thomas More?
400
An educator at Tuskegee institute who emphasized good work habits and vocational training for African Americans. He called for black progress through education rather than trying to fight the Jim Crow laws.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
Founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who was John Winthrop?
400
legislation which said that an adult male who was a citizen could claim 160 acres of land in the Northwest Territory
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Laws which denied African Americans their basic civil rights
What were Jim Crow laws?
500
Wrote Democracy in America, an explanation of America and its freedoms. He pointed out the irony in a freedom-loving nation which embraced slavery and mistreated Native Americans.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
500
Narrator of The Great Gatsby who tells us the tragic story of Jay Gatz
Nick Carraway
500
Proclaimed his commitment to the American cause of independence by shouting, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
Demographic hybrid that is neither city nor countryside
What is a suburb?
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