Social Studies - Human Rights LO2

Question 1

What is the slave trade?

Answer 1

The Atlantic slave trade transported slave traders of enslaved African people mainly to the Americas

Question 2

Where did most slaves work?

Answer 2

In the southern states, on tobacco and cotton implantations

Question 3

How many people were transported across the passage between 1650 and 1860?

Answer 3

10-15 million

Question 4

What is the civil war?

Answer 4

A war in 1861 between the union (Northern states) and the confederate (Southern states) because the southern states wanted to keep slavery while the northern wanted to outlaw slavery

Question 5

How long did the civil war last for

Answer 5

1861-1865

Question 6

Who won the civil war?

Answer 6

Union or the northern states

Question 7

Who freed the slaves and what was the event called

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863

Question 8

Segregation

Answer 8

to set apart, separate or restrict one group

Question 9

Desegregation

Answer 9

the elimination of laws or practices under religion, ancestries or ethnic groups are restricted to specific facilties

Question 10

Integration

Answer 10

the act of bringing together

Question 11

Who was Jim crow?

Answer 11

A ministrel character in the 1820s of African Americans

Question 12

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 12

Laws in the southern states showing how they still wanted to treat black people as second class citizens by separating facilities such as a black only bathroom and a white only bathroom, with the southern states saying its separate but equal when the facilities were majorly different and still unfair

Question 13

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 13

The Klan started after the civil war by ex-Confederate officers aimed to terrorise the black population to “keep them in their place” with many southern officers and citizens being members

Question 14

What was the Voter Registration meant for?

Answer 14

The voter registration from the 15th amendment stated that “the right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied…slavery” meaning more than 500000 black men could vote

Question 15

What is the NAACP

Answer 15

The NAACP was started by white and black activists in response to African Americans across the country

Question 16

What does NAACP stand for

Answer 16

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 17

What did the NAACP do

Answer 17

They started the civil rights movement to end racial discrimination for African Americans and gain equal rights under the law. It began in 1954 and ended in 1968.

Question 18

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 18

The boycott started after Rosa Parks got arrested when she refused to give up her seat for a white man

Question 19

What happened after Rosa Parks got arrested?

Answer 19

Martin Luther King started a boycott of the Montgomery buses until the company agreed to desegregate the buses and a year later segregation in buses were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court

Question 20

What happened at Central High school in Little Rock?

Answer 20

The NAACP attempted to force Central High to carry out the Supreme Court’s order to get the school to integrate and was able to get 9 black students to attend the school

Question 21

What happened at the Birmingham Campaign?

Answer 21

A March was organised by Martin Luther King with the march relating to the KKK with the police unleashed police dogs and fire hoses on the protestors and a month later President Kennedy turned Birmingham to desegregate

Question 22

Who is Martin Luther King Jr?

Answer 22

MLK was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 who led the Montgomery Boycott.

Question 23

How many public speeches did MLK give?

Answer 23

over 2500

Question 24

What was the I have a dream speech trying to give

Answer 24

The speech was called for civil and economic rights and a end to racism

Question 25

When and how did MLK die

Answer 25

MLK died on the 4th of April 1968 after being shot on his motel balcony in Tennesee.

Question 26

When was the NAACP established

Answer 26

12 February 1909

Question 27

When did MLK give his “I have a dream speech”

Answer 27

August 28, 1963

Question 28

When was MLK born

Answer 28

15th January 1929

Question 29

When was little rock

Answer 29

September 4, 1957

Question 30

When was Birmingham Campaign

Answer 30

1963

Question 31

When was Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 31

December 5 1955 - December 20 1956

Question 32

When was the KKK established

Answer 32

24 December 1865

Question 33

What is the civil rights movement

Answer 33

a campaign to abolish segregation and discrimination to African Americans

Question 34

When was the civil rights movement

Answer 34

1954-1968

Question 35

What happened in the brown vs board of education

Answer 35

Linda Brown had to travel many km’s to get to her all black school as she couldn’t go the all white school outside her house, so the NAACP took the case to court and in 1954 made segregation in schools illegal

Question 36

When was the brown vs board of education

Answer 36

1954