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Important Documents
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Civil Rights
Bill of Rights
Important People
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Declared the colonies independence from Great Britain in 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
Abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment
100
Court case that stated that it was unconstitutional for states to have separate schools for white and African American students
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka
100
The right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment
100
Main author of the Declaration of Independce
Who is Thomas Jefferson
200
Document that replaced the Articles of Confederation in 1787
What is the U.S. Constitution
200
Declares the all persons born in the United States are citizens, and guarantees equal protection of the laws
What is the 14th Amendment
200
The boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
What is the Montgomery bus boycott
200
Protection against unreasonable searches by law-enforcement officers
What is the 4th Amendment
200
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
300
The first 10 amendments to the constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
300
Grants voting rights to all citizens of the United States
What is the 15th Amendment
300
Act that prohibited racial discrimination in educattion and employment and outlawed segregation in public facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
300
Protection against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th Amendment
300
Refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger
Who is Rosa Parks
400
Document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the monarch
What is the Magna Carta
400
Guarantees women the right to vote
What is th 19th Amendment
400
An event in which hundred of thousands of civil rights supporters gather in Washington, D.C. to make their views known to the federal government
What is the March on Washington
400
The guarantee that civilians will not be forced to house soldiers
What is the 3rd Amendment
400
Best known leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
500
Signed in 1689 and was a major influence in the writing of the U.S. Constitution
What is English Bill of Rights
500
Gives Congress the power to collect an income tax
What is the 16th Amendment
500
Prohibited the use of literacy test at polling places
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
The right of a person under arrest to know whyhe or she has been arrested and to refuse to testify against himself or herself in a court of law
What is the 5th Amendment
500
President during the Civil Rights Movement
Who is John F. Kennedy