Amendments
Rights Getting Trampled
Random Civil Rights Movement Grab Bag
Christopher Columbus was the worst
Tech Time
100
Freedom of speech, religion, press, and assembly
1st Amendment
100
Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits anyone from being prosecuted twice for substantially the same crime.
The Double Jeopardy Clause
100
He was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of flirting with a white woman in her family's grocery store.
Emmett Till
100
What did Christopher Columbus and the Europeans bring to the native islanders?
Epidemics, famines, and slavery
100
Social Media that was the most popular until the rise of Facebook
MySpace
200
This Constitutional Amendment gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
200
These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period. These laws were enforced until 1965.
Jim Crow Laws
200
Who led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Rosa Parks
200
Besides celebrating Columbus' voyage why else was Columbus Day first established?
to celebrate Italian-American heritage.
200
What does the “SIM” in SIM card stand for?
Subscriber Identity Module
300
Passed by Congress on in 1865, this abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
13th Amendment
300
These were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free and freed blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.
Black Codes
300
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
Brown vs. Board of Education
300
Where did Christopher Columbus' voyage 'land'?
*Columbus didn't “discover” America — he never set foot in North America. During four separate trips that started with the one in 1492, Columbus landed on various Caribbean islands that are now the Bahamas as well as the island later called Hispaniola (modern day D.R. and Haiti). He later on explored the Central and South American coasts.
300
This company hit $2 trillion in market value, the first publicly traded U.S. company to do so.
It reached the $1 trillion milestone just two years ago, (so it reached an an additional $1trillion in just 2 years!)
Apple
400
The Constitutional Amendment prohibits voting restrictions based on race or color
15th Amendment
400
This was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
Plessy v. Ferguson
400
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated these- In the United States, between the 1850s and 1960s, these were administered to prospective voters, and this had the effect of disenfranchising African Americans.
literacy tests
400
Name two Native New England Recognized Tribes
400
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
500
Begun in the 1890s as a legal way to keep African Americans from voting in southern states, these were essentially a voting fee. Eligible voters were required to pay their poll tax before they could cast a ballot.
The 24th amendment outlawed this.
Poll taxes
500
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
This was a group of African American students enrolled in Central High School in in Arkansas 1957. Their enrollment was followed by a crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school bythe Governor . They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Litte Rock Nine
500
What was the name of the native group that Christopher Columbus' voyage encountered in 1492?
When Christopher Columbus arrived on the Bahamian Island of Guanahani (San Salvador) in 1492, he encountered the Taíno people, whom he described in letters as "naked as the day they were born." The Taíno had complex hierarchical religious, political, and social systems.
500
Company that invented the first portable computer
Osbourne