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A tax added to the purchase price of goods and services
Sale Tax
What is Ms. Binder's favorite color?
Green
The stock market crash that began the Great Depression in the United States.
Panic of 1929
A jury that cannot reach a unanimous decision in a trial.
Hung Jury
Attacked with bombs filled with flammable liquid intended to start fires
A chemical used by police to control crowds by causing irritation to the eyes and lungs.
Tear Gas
A protest in which people refuse to buy goods or use services
Boycott
A political party formed in Mississippi in 1964 to challenge segregation in politics.
Freedom Democratic Party
The movement of people from rural areas to cities.
Urbanization
A severe economic crisis during the 1930s marked by unemployment, poverty, and bank failures.
Great Depression
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization fighting for African American civil rights
NAACP
A statement claiming a state could reject federal laws it believed were unconstitutional.
Resolution of Interposition
An insect that destroyed cotton crops in the South, hurting Mississippi farmers.
Boll weevil
Federal law officers sent to enforce federal laws and court orders
Fed Marshalls
Schools created during the Civil Rights Movement to teach African American students about voting rights, history, and leadership
Freedom Schools
An organization that creates standardized tests such as the SAT and AP exams
College Board
The struggle to gain equal rights and end racial segregation for African Americans.
CRM
White segregationist groups formed in Mississippi to oppose civil rights and integration.
Citizens’ Council
A chemical used to preserve wood, especially railroad ties and telephone poles.
Creosote —
A constitutional protection that prevents a person from being tried twice for the same crime.
Double Jeopardy
A Mississippi state agency created to resist school integration and monitor civil rights activists.
State Sovereignty Commission