civil rights movement

Question 1

What was bus travel like for Black people in Montgomery, Alabama?

Answer 1

Black and white people had to sit in separate spaces. If there wasn’t enough room black people would have to give up their seats

Question 2

What did Rosa parks do?

Answer 2

She refused to give up her seat for a white man so she was fined and arrested

Question 3

What was the boycott that followed rosa parks?

Answer 3

a Baptist called martin Luther King jr boycotted buses in Montgomery, albama and elsewhere they took to TV, radio and newspapers

Question 4

What happened in 381 days?

Answer 4

Segregation on buses was illegal

Question 5

Why was the buses so important?

Answer 5

First victory of black Americans

Question 6

When did the USA declare independence from Britain?

Answer 6

1776

Question 7

Did Britain’s abolition affect US slaves in 1807 and 1833?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

What were women’s jobs like?

Answer 8

domestic service, longest hours and lowest pay

Question 9

what happened in 1857?

Answer 9

Matrimonial cause act - allowed divorce through the law courts

Question 10

what happened in 1870?

Answer 10

Married women’s property act - allowed women to keep £200 and personal property

Question 11

what happened in 1882

Answer 11

Married women’s property act - allowed a women to control everything she brought into a marriage and everything she earned during it

Question 12

what happened in 1884

Answer 12

Matrimonial causes act - prevented a wife from being forced to live with / have sex with her husband

Question 13

what happened in 1886

Answer 13

Guardianship of infants act - welfare of the children into account when deciding custody in a divorce

Question 14

what happened in 1894?

Answer 14

Local governments act- allows women to vote in elections for county and borough councils

Question 15

difference between suffragists and suffragettes

Answer 15

1. advocates for the right to vote
2. Militant tactics to work for it

Question 16

When did the suffragists and suffragettes emerge?

Answer 16

20th century

Question 17

Governments response to suffragettes

Answer 17

arrested for illegal actions (some went on hunger strikes) - force feeding against their will.

Question 18

Who was Emily Davidson?

Answer 18

She ran out at a horse race i the path of the king’s horse holding a “vote for women” banner. She died from a fractured skull.

Question 19

What day was the Epsom derby race?

Answer 19

4th June 1913

Question 20

Women before WW1

Answer 20

women did not have the right to vote and had alienated themselves from previous supporters

Question 21

When was the law passed for the right to vote?

Answer 21

February 1918 8 million women over 30

Question 22

First female MP

Answer 22

Nancy Astor 1919

Question 23

When were women given the full right to vote?

Answer 23

1928

Question 24

When were African- American slaves emancipated?

Answer 24

1865

Question 25

Who were the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 25

They beat, burned, tortured, shot, drowned hundreds of black people

Question 26

when was the civil rights act put in place?

Answer 26

July 1964

Question 27

what was Martin Luther Jr awarded?

Answer 27

Nobel peace prize

Question 28

when was Martin Luther King jr assassinated?

Answer 28

1968