History of Civil Rights

Question 0

Why were laws passed protecting Native Americans?

Answer 0

They were weakened by disease.

Question 1

The need for labor in the colonies forced colonists to look to…

Answer 1

Indian labor and slave labor from Africa

Question 2

The movement of slaves from Africa to the colonies is called the…

Answer 2

Middle Passage

Question 3

The trading among West Africa, he West Indies, and New England was called…

Answer 3

The Triangular Trade

Question 4

The southern colonies used slave labor to grow…

Answer 4

Tobacco, rice, and cotton

Question 5

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 5

A famous conductor who helped slaves reach freedom in the north through the Underground Railroad

Question 6

What was the movement to end slavery called?

Answer 6

The Abolitionist Movement

Question 7

Name two famous members of the Abolitionist Movement.

Answer 7

Frederick Douglas and William Garrison

Question 8

In what case were slaves ruled to be legal property?

Answer 8

Dread Scott Decision

Question 9

The civil war broke out in…

Answer 9

April 1861

Question 10

The Emancipation Proclamation said that…

Answer 10

All slaves in areas of rebellion versus the government will be free.

Question 11

What was the main point of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 11

To save the Union.

Question 12

What was set up to help black southerners adjust to freedom after the war?

Answer 12

The Freedmen’s Bureau (the first major federal relief program)

Question 13

Name two examples of what black codes did.

Answer 13

Set a curfew and outlawed vagrancy

Question 14

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 14

Outlawed slavery (1865)

Question 15

What did the 14th Amendment do?

Answer 15

Gave blacks citizenship rights

Question 16

What did the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 16

Gave black citizens the right to vote

Question 17

What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 17

To maintain white supremacy

Question 18

A poll tax is…

Answer 18

A fee that must be paid before a person can vote

Question 19

The purpose of literacy tests was to…

Answer 19

Keep black people from voting

Question 20

What is a Jim Crow law?

Answer 20

A statute that required segregation of public services by race

Question 21

Give three examples of Jim Crow laws.

Answer 21

Separation in railroad cars, schools, hospitals, and public bathrooms

Question 22

What did Plessy do?

Answer 22

Purposefully got himself arrested by going in the white passenger train (as a black man) so that he could go to court and start a case that he was not being fairly protected under the law.

Question 23

What was the outcome of Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 23

The court ruled that “separate but equal” facitilite are constitutional.

Question 24

When and why was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed?

Answer 24

1909, to abolish segregation and racism through the court system