At the Movies
In the film, Africans in America, part 1: The Terrible Transformation, we learned that much of the work in the early colonies was being done by what kind of TEMPORARY workers?
indentured servants
Daily Double! See image
Boundary stones marked the boundary of the original District of Columbia.
"Home rule" means the right of DC residents to make decisions in our local affairs, including the right to elect a __________________ and ____________________ .
mayor and city council
Who is responsible for the actual rioting in the Snow Riot?
The Mechanics
Name ONE of the five parts of the original District of Columbia.
Washington City, Washington County, Georgetown, Alexandria City, Alexandria County
In the film, The New World, we watched an incident that probably did NOT happen in real life. What was it?
Pocahontas saving John Smith's life
Why did DC have a diamond shape at first?
Article I of the Constitution says that the "seat of government" would be "ten miles square"
Why do some people say that DC being a state is unconstitutional?
They say so because Article I of the Constitution designated this place a "district," not a state.
How did the Snow Riot get its name?
Beverly Snow was the black entrepreneur whose restaurant the Mechanics destroyed in the riots.
Anna Maria Thornton lived close to which famous Washington landmark?
Lafayette Park or The White House
What was the "Terrible Transformation"?
The change from multi-racial indentured servitude to racial slavery (enslavement of Africans)
What is the name of the 1790 law that gave the President the right to decide where the "seat of government" would be located?
The Residence Act
What does the 23rd Amendment do for DC residents and what does it NOT do?
It has given DC residents the right to vote for in presidential elections since 1964; it does NOT give us the right to elect our own local officials.
"Reuben Crandall is a troublemaker." Does that quote represent an anti-slavery or a pro-slavery perspective? EXPLAIN.
PRO-slavery perspective: that quote would come from someone who didn't like the fact that Crandall was passing out abolitionist literature.
Where is the Emancipation statue located?
Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
In the film, Africans in America, part 4: Judgment Day, we learned that the Emancipation Proclamation did NOT end slavery in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. These states were known as the "___________" states.
border
Explain ONE reason why Virginia decided to take back the land it had ceded to make the District of Columbia?
1) Business leaders were frustrated
2) People in Alexandria had lost their voting rights
3) Alexandria Slaveholders were nervous about slavery ending in DC
We learned in episode 5 that it is legal to possess marijuana in DC. How would being a state change what happens with marijuana.
A jury found Arthur Bowen GUILTY of burglary and attempted murder. How is that he was NOT executed?
Anna Maria Thornton wrote a letter to President Jackson convincing him to pardon Bowen.
Daily Double! See image.
The burial vault at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Georgetown
How did the Fugitive Slave Law affect black folks in Washington DC?
Answers vary -- there were many enslaved people who had moved to DC, and many slavecatchers looked for runaways here
How did the nation's capital end up here on the Potomac River? Use the words "debt" and "compromise" in your answer.
Our country had financial trouble after the Revolutionary War; one issue was that it was in DEBT to the war veterans. Hamilton, Madison and Jefferson worked a COMPROMISE: the South would help that pay off the debt, and the north would agree to place the capital where slavery was alive and well -- in the South.
Eleanor Holmes Norton tried to get us voting rights in Congress WITHOUT making us a state. She and Tom Davis wrote a bill that would have given DC a voting member of Congress in exchange for what?
an additional member of Congress for Utah
Francis Scott Key is most famous for writing our national anthem, the "Star-Spangled Banner. What role did he play in the story of the Snow Riot?
He was the Attorney General of DC who sent Arthur Bowen and Reuben Crandall to jail.
Name FOUR ways to describe where our school is located.
Anacostia, "East of the (Anacostia) River," Southeast, Ward 8, corner of MLK Avenue and Howard Road, [answers vary]