Civil Rights Movement
Westward Expansion
Government
Lagniappe
African Americans in Government
100

Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomerey, AL buses from 1955-1956?

Who is Rosa Parks

100

This is the belief that the U.S. will settle all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

What is Manifest Destiny

100

A nation in which voters choose representatives to govern them.

What is Republic?

100

When a person or group of people refuse to by products or use services.

What is boycott?

100

Who was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is BARACK OBAMA

200

What was the name of the organization founded by W.E.B. Dubois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, and others.

What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

200

This is the country that sold us the Louisiana Territories.

What is France

200

Legislative, Judicial and Executive.

What are the three branches of government?

200

This is when America was discovered.

What is 1492?

200

Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

300

Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?

Who is Malcolm X

300

These people explored the Louisiana Territories.

Who were Lewis and Clark

300

This phrase means each branch of government has its own powers.

What is Separation of Powers.

300

These were crops grown for the specific purpose of earning money.

What are cash crops?

300

Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?

What is Dred Scott Case

400

Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.

400

This American scar was a legitimate fear of Westward Expansion.

What is Slavery?

400

A system set up by the Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to control the actions of the other branches.

What is Checks and Balances?

400

This major land expansion more than doubled the United States in 1803.

What is Louisiana Purchase?

400

What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?

What is Brown v. Board of Education

500

Who is known for first integrating a New Orleans Elementary school at the age of 6?

Ruby Bridges

500

The Lewis-Clark expedition used this river out of St. Louis on their way to the Pacific Ocean

What is the Missouri River?

500

When a legislative body has two branches or chambers it is this.

What is bicameral?

500

This plan aimed at cutting the Confederacy in two relied on what major river? 

What is the Mississippi River?

500

Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?

Who is Shirley Chisholm