“Separate But Equal” Name:
Instructions: Use the index to locate the
information needed to provide a
complete answer for each of the following
questions. You may want to use
World Book Online as a references as well. Complete this assignment on a
separate sheet of paper.
1.
Historians include the “Middle Passage”
as part of the triangular trade.
What does the term Middle Passage refer to in the triangular trade?
2.
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case in 1856?
3.
How did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 affect
slavery in the
4.
Which rights are guaranteed to all American citizens
by the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution of the
5.
List the provisions of the Civil Rights Act 1866 (The
term “provisions”
means that you should list what the law says.).
6.
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Plessey v.
1896? How did this case affect
segregation in the U.S?
7.
Answer the following questions concerning the Supreme
Court case
Brown v. Board of Education of
a.
Why did Linda Brown’s family sue the
b.
How did the Supreme Court rule in this case?
8. Beginning
on
members of a
group called the Congress of Racial Equality (
Washington, D.C.
on two buses bound for New Orleans,
They called themselves “Freedom
Riders”. What was the purpose of the
“Freedom Riders”?
Where
the Freedom Riders successful in reaching
their
goal?
9. Look
at the photographs on pages 854-855. How
do you think photographs
like those on
pages 854-855 influenced public opinion concerning the civil
rights movement
in the 1950’s and 1960’s?
10. List the
provisions for the following laws:
a.
Civil Rights Act 1964
b.
Voting Rights Act 1965
11. Provide a
complete definition for the following terms:
“Jim Crow Laws” segregation integration
due process poll tax literacy
test
black codes Ku Klux Klan lynching
precedent
12. Give the
importance for each of the following individuals in the
struggle to end slavery and segregation and to
provide equal rights
for all Americans.
Frederick
Douglass Nat
Turner
Harriet Tubman Abraham
Lincoln
W.E.B. DuBois Booker T.
Washington
Thurgood
Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Jackie
Robinson
Medgar Evers Colin
Powell
Condoleezza
Rice Malcolm
X
Harry Truman Barack Obama
13. The individuals listed below are controversial
figures in American
history.
Briefly explain why each of these individuals is considered
controversial (open to discussion and debate;
disputed) in American
history.
Eugene V. Debs
Alger Hiss
Robert Oppenheimer