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Early History and Civil War
Civil War and beyond
Jim Crow
Later Times
100
Misapplication of the theory of evolution.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
The Compromise of 1850 included the provision that this big state enter the union as a free state.
What is California?
100
This declaration gave freedom to the slaves all but the border states.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The murder of this young man in Mississippi helped to launch the Civil Rights movement.
Who was Emmett Till?
100
Campaign of Lyndon Johnson to fight poverty in the United States.
What is the Great Society?
200
Really bad decision of SCOTUS where slave taken into free land was still considered property.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
200
Abraham Lincoln wanted to enact a policy of revenge against the South. True or False
What is False! He wanted to restore the Union!
200
This baseball player was the first African American in the major league.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
200
March on Washington speech called, " I Have a Dream," was delivered by this man.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?
300
Prominent African American who favored educating the top ten percent in colleges and universities whose name translates from French to mean "of the woods."
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
Famous abolition newspaper was published by this man.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
300
This amendment gave voting rights to African American men following the Civil War.
What is the 15th?
300
The Double V campaign during WW2 stood for this.
What is Victory over Fascism abroad and Victory over racism at home?
300
Militant black power organization formed in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton?
What is the Black Panthers?
400
Prominent African American who favored a vocational education for blacks along with pulling themselves "up by the bootstraps."
Who was Booker T. Washington?
400
Minstrel show character who became the name of segregation and oppression in the south.
What is Jim Crow?
400
The reason the Radical Republicans were radical.
What is they wanted equality among all races?
400
Supreme Court case where separate but equal became law of the land.
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
400
Movement where African Americans and whites boarded buses to capture media attention.
What is the Freedom Rides?
500
The discovery of the New World lead to the African American slave trade because............................
What is 1. Native Americans died off, 2. triangle of trade from the Old World to Africa and across the Atlantic bringing 3. slaves to provide labor?
500
Agency created by Congress to assist newly freed slaves in 1865.
What is the Freedmen's bureau?
500
The 14th amendment did this.
What is gave the former slaves citizenship?
500
City where President Eisenhower sent troops to order the desegregation of the schools.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
500
Supreme Court Justice who complained of a high-tech lynching at confirmation hearings in the Senate.
Who is Clarence Thomas?