CRM terms quiz

Question 1

13th Amendment

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(1865) constitutionally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.

Question 2

14th Amendment

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1868. equal rights and granted citizenship to anyone born in America

Question 3

15th Amendment

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1869, Granted African men the right to vote happened in 1870.

Question 4

Plessy v Ferguson

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1893, Landmark Supreme Court case where they upheld a Louisiana state allowed that made segregation constitutional, separate but equal accommodations for the white and coloured races

Question 5

Ku Klux Klan

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(1866) Founded in Tennesse and used violence to intimidate Black people.Reborn in 1915 and with 2 million members in 1925 and mass lynching.

Question 6

Thurgood Marshall

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(1908-1903)
lawyer and jurist that served on the Supreme Court from 1967-1991 as associate justice; first African American justice, used the courts to fight Jim Crow laws and dismantle segregation in the US,

Question 7

Brown v. Board of Education

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(1954) supreme court case where NAACP argues that segregation is inherently unequal in all schools. The Supreme Court issued a decision declaring that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Major victory for the Civil Rights movement.

Question 8

Brown II

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(1955) Supreme Court does not say how schools will be desegregated in original Brown. Supreme Court states that school must desegregate “with all deliberate speed”

Question 9

White Citizens’ Councils

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(1955)
Opposed to racial desegregation, used violence and intimidation to counter civil rights goals, they sought to economically and socially oppress blacks

Question 10

Little Rock

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(1957) - In Little Rock Arkansas School Board attempted to gradually integrate schools. None Black high school students volunteered to integrate Central High School but were met with much resistance. The state’s National Guard was called to block the Black students from entering the school. Eventually the National Guard was removed from the school and Little Rock Nine used a side door to enter the school.

Question 11

Montgomery Bus Boycott

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(1955) A year long boycott of busses in Montgomery in protest of segregated seating that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional

Question 12

Rosa Parks

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in 1955 launched the Montgomery bus boycott by not giving up her seat and getting arrested. She was also apart of the NAACP (1943-56)

Question 13

Freedom Rides

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Spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

Question 14

The March on Washington (1963)

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March was for Jobs and Freedom in the nation’s capital. After the march John F. Kennedy created a federal civil rights bill in congress.

Question 15

Freedom Summer

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A volunteer campaign launched in the United States in June 1964 to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.

Question 16

Civil Rights Act (1964)

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(1964) prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin

Question 17

Grandfather Clauses

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Laws put in place in the South to prevent African Americans from voting by requiring your grandfather to have been able to vote - an impossibility for black men whose ancestors were slaves

Question 18

Poll taxes

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A tax that must be paid in order to vote, created to stop African Americans from voting

Question 19

Literacy tests

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a test assessing a person’s ability to right and read. Tests given to African Americans to make it impossible to gain the right to vote.

Question 20

Bloody Sunday

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March 1965, police, state troopers and citizens violently attacked peaceful civil rights marchers with clubs and tear gas in Selma, Alabama

Question 21

Voting Rights Act (1965)

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Landmark piece of federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Signed by LBJ

Question 22

• Know the role and significance of:
  NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, used peaceful protests, legal defense, and voter registration campaigns to support the fight for civil rights

Question 23

*Know the role and the significance of
SCLC

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MLK organised the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that would take part in nonviolent protests. Main goal was to push the government to support civil rights.

Question 24

*Know the role and the significance of
SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, student-led organisation that helped lead protests and voter registration campaigns to support the fight for civil rights

Question 25

*Know the role and the significance of
Nation of Islam

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religious and political organisation that advocated for Black empowerment and self-reliance, were also against integration into white society, willing to use militant tactics if necessary

Question 26

*Know the role and the significance of
MLK

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He was a social rights activist and a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. He organised a lot of peaceful protests, marches and sit-ins. (CAMERON did this, don’t even read it, you know who MLK is you can bs it)

Question 27

*Know the role and the significance of
Malcolm X

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A key figure in the civil rights movement, noted for his support of Black nationalism and defensive tactics against racial injustice. He was a great speaker and important leader in the Nation of Islam before going off to start his own organization.

Question 28

*Know the role and the significance of
Lyndon Johnson

Answer 28

president after JFK (vice pres first) from 1963-1969, appointed Thurgood Marshall, made a major tax cut, built Great Society program, civil rights act of 1964