US Civil Rights Unit

Question 1

How many times has the US constitution been amended?

Answer 1

27

Question 2

When did it become illegal to buy slaves from overseas?

Answer 2

1808 (ones already in the US were still fair game though)

Question 3

When was the Civil War declared?

Answer 3

12 April 1861

Question 4

Which amendment to the Constitution freed slaves across America?

Answer 4

13

Question 5

When did the Reconstruction start?

Answer 5

1865

Question 6

How many Black Americans had migrated North by 1930?

Answer 6

1.3 million

Question 7

Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 7

President Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

Answer 8

1863

Question 9

When was Plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 9

1896

Question 10

How many states formed the Confederate States?

Answer 10

11

Question 11

When was the NAACP formed?

Answer 11

1908

Question 12

When was the military desegregated?

Answer 12

1948

Question 13

When was the CORE formed?

Answer 13

1942

Question 14

When was Brown v. Board of Education?

Answer 14

1954

Question 15

When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat?

Answer 15

1955

Question 16

What year was the incident with the Little Rock Nine?

Answer 16

1957

Question 17

When was the SNCC formed?

Answer 17

1960

Question 18

When was the Freedom Rides?

Answer 18

1961

Question 19

When was the March on Washington?

Answer 19

1963

Question 20

When was discrimination by race outlawed in the US, and by which president?

Answer 20

1964, Lyndon B Johnson

Question 21

When was the Mississippi Freedom Summer?

Answer 21

1964

Question 22

In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

Answer 22

1965

Question 23

When did Malcolm X deliver his speech, and what was it called?

Answer 23

1964, ‘The Ballot or the Bullet’

Question 24

When was the Black Panther Party formed?

Answer 24

1966

Question 25

What does CORE stand for?

Answer 25

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 26

When was CORE formed?

Answer 26

1942

Question 27

What 3 key actions did CORE take?

Answer 27

• sit-ins in segregated restaurants
• Mississippi Freedom Summer
• the Freedom Rides

Question 28

What does SCLC stand for?

Answer 28

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 29

When was the SCLC formed?

Answer 29

1957

Question 30

What kind of activism did the SCLC primarily support?

Answer 30

Grassroots activism - i.e. local civil rights activism

Question 31

What 3 projects did the SCLC support?

Answer 31

• Crusade for Citizenship (voter registration drives/voting education for Black Americans)
• Operation Breadbasket (only supporting businesses that employed Black Americans)
• Citizen Education Program (training Black Americans for the workforce)

Question 32

What does SNCC stand for?

Answer 32

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 33

When was the SNCC formed?

Answer 33

April 1960