Vocabulary
Stands for what
Name that Person
Important Event
Name that Year
100
A period of ten years
What is a decade?
100
FBI
What is Federal Bureau of Investigation?
100
The women who was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This era was from about 1954 to 1971.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
100
Barack Obama was elected president.
What is 2008?
200
A person who searches for information about multiple events from the past.
What is a Historian?
200
SNCC
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
200
The man who cited the most famous speech called the "I Have a Dream" Speech. Also,the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and only the second African American!
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
When Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man what black people decide to do?
What is to boycott?
200
The Civil War began.
What is 1861?
300
Define Sit-in
What is a group of people sitting somewhere refusing to move?
300
SCLC
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
300
The man who was elected as the first African American president on November 8, 2004.
Who is Barack Obama?
300
In August 1963, this event which brought in mostly African American people but lots of whites as well to Washington D.C.
What is The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
300
The Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in southern states.
What is 1863?
400
Define Primary Source
What are documents, images, or items that were created or used by someone who was at a specific time and place?
400
CORE
What is the Congress of Racial Equality?
400
The man who ran for president in 1960 and was supported by African Americans because he believed in Civil Rights.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
The summer when the CORE and SNCC trained 700 white college students to move to Mississippi and help African Americans register to vote.
What is Freedom Summer?
400
The Harlem Renaissance begins.
What is 1917?
500
A group of people in a court who listen to a case, then decide whether someone is guilty or innocent.
What is a jury?
500
NAACP
What is National Association of the Advancement of Colored People?
500
One of the many powerful women at the 1992 march for women's rights.
Who is Elizabeth Holtzman?
500
On March 7, when 600 people marched through Selma peacefully until lawmen stopped them and beat them with clubs and tear gas.
What is Bloody Sunday?
500
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered?
What is 1968 (April 4)?