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Civil War
Civil War /Reconstruction
Vocab
Government
Wild Card
100
One who wants to abolish slavery
What is an abolitionist
100
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Event that was considered to be the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?
100
Refers to improvement of what is wrong
What is reform?
100
the tactics used by those struggling for civil rights were_____
What is peaceful?
100
the two worst states for civil rights abuses against African-Americans
What is Mississippi and Alabama
200
To bring charges against
What is impeach
200
The Emancipation Proclamation
Document that brought an end to slavery
200
this word is a synonym of integrate
What is desegregate?
200
president when slavery ended
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
MLK Jr.'s occupation
Baptist Minister
300
This group was trying to end segregation on buses
Who were Freedom Riders
300
voting discrimination ended
What was the most important change due to a law passed in the 1960's?
300
Keeping black and whites separate
What is segregation?
300
case that said separate was legal as long as it was equal
What is Plessy v Ferguson
300
his ideas were studied by MLK Jr. during the civil rights
Gandi
400
segregated schools were ruled to be unconstitutional
What is Brown v Board of education?
400
court that determines whether laws fit with the Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court
400
an execution without trial
What is "lynching"?
400
a young African-American killed in Mississippi
Who was Emmett Till?
400
event that was happening when slavery ended in the U.S.
Civil War
500
the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to the US citizens by the Constitution
What is Civil Rights
500
Government agency used to help freed slaves with clothing, food, shelter, and jobs
What is the Freedman's Bureau
500
refusal to obey laws to change them
What is civil disobedience?
500
the role of ____________________ was to integrate a high school in Arkansas
What was the "Little Rock Nine"?
500
leading organization formed to help end racial segregation
NAACP