The Civil War
It was delivered in Nov. 19, 1863 at a cemetery in Pennsylvania
What is the Gettsyburg Address?
Two times a number
What is 2x?
A state whose electoral votes are expected to go to the Republican candidate
What is a "red state"?
He tested a law by boarding a whites-only train car in Louisiana
Who was Homer Plessey?
Supreme Court decision that ruled that educational facilities separated on the basis of race are "inherently unequal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Someone who advocates for the elimination of slavery
What is an abolitionist?
Five less than a number
What is x - 5?
A state whose electoral votes are expected to go to the Democratic candidate?
What is a "blue state"?
Refusal of food, often by someone imprisoned
What is a hunger strike?
What is Selma?
term for freedom from slavery or bondage
What is emancipation?
Half of a number
What is 1/2 x OR x/2?
270
What is the number of electoral votes needed to win the Presidency?
They picketed in front of the White House 6 days/week for a year
Who were the suffragists or women protesting for the right to vote?
Name given to the group of African American students who desegregated Central High School
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Issued on January 1, 1863, it freed enslaved persons in Confederate States in rebellion against the Union
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Five more than four times a number
States that could go either "red" or "blue" in a Presidential election
What are "swing states"?
"Sit-in" sites for anti-Jim Crow protests
What were lunch counters?
3rd grader who first desegregated an elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana
Who is Ruby Bridges?
He said "with malice toward none, with charity for all.. let us strive to finis the work we are in.. to achieve a just and lasting peace"
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Four more than a number times itself
What is x2 + 4?
29
What is the number of electoral votes New York State has?
Breaking a law and peacefully accepting the consequences as a strategy for showing the injustice of the law
What is civil disobedience?
Main goal of volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1964 during "Freedom Summer"
What is voter registration?