Post Civil War Amendments
Who was granted citizenship under the 14th ammendment?
Anyone born in the United States
Huey Newton
Bobby Seale
What is the name of the belief system that the United States was divinely ordained to stretch its country from coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
The first off reservation boarding school for Indigenous children was the Carlisle School, what was the Carlisle schools motto?
Kill the Indian, Save the Man.
What is the part of the map that tells you what relative size the map is? (example: 1 inch = 300 miles)
The Scale
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments known as?
The Reconstruction Amendments
What did the Black Panthers do to protest the Mulford Act (a gun law aimed at disarming them)?
How many treaties were signed between the United States government and different Indigenous nations?
Between 368 & 374 (will accept answers + or - 50)
What was one of the reasons that children were punished for at the Indigenous boarding schools?
Speaking their native language
Practicing their native religion
Wearing their native clothes
Being, or acting like an "Indian"
What are the lines on a map that stretch horizontally called? (example: the equator)
Lines of Latitude
What did the 13th amendment do to slavery in the United States?
It abolished (ended) slavery in the United States.
The Black Panthers in Chicago started an alliance with the Young Patriots (poor whites), and the Young Lords (Puerto Ricans), what was this alliance called?
The Rainbow Coalition
After what war did the U.S. gain the land that contains modern day California?
The Mexican-American War
When the Indigenous boarding schools were shut down, what other assimilation tactic did the U.S. government attempt with Indigenous children?
Adoption by white families
What are the lines on a map that stretch vertically called? (north to south)
Lines of Longitude
What rights does the 14th amendment guarantee to all citizens?
Equal protection under the law, and due process (fair legal treatment).
What was the full name of the Black Panther Party?
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense
How many years was Texas considered its own republic, after it separated from Mexico, and before it became a state?
10 years
By 1925, how many Native American children were in Indigenous boarding schools?
60,000 +
The standard world map for navigation was created by Gerardus Mercator in 1569. While this map is incredibly accurate for navigation, it has one very large inaccuracy. What is it?
Everything close to the North and South Poles look way bigger than they actually are.
What does the 15th amendment say about voting rights?
It says that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (being enslaved).
What was the name of the President of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers, who was murdered by the police in a late night raid?
Fred Hampton
The Alamo
What act was passed in 1977, in order to help protect the wellbeing of Indigenous children in the United States?
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
It is impossible to fit a 3D picture on a flat surface, that is the problem facing all map makers. They try to make the maps as accurate as they can. What is it called when we try to show a round (Globe) map, on a flat surface?
A Map Projection