8-7 The Civil Rights
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Unit Guide
History 8
A) What actions did Congress take to ensure that Reconstruction forced the South to change?
B) Describe the Reconstruction Governments of the South.
C) Explain how Southern blacks were totally stripped of their rights by 1900.
D) Compare the advice offered to Black Americans by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.
E) How did World War I affect Black Americans?
F) What impact did the New Deal and World War II have on blacks?
G) How did President Truman support civil rights?
Reading Questions:
Describe the circumstances of Till’s murder.
Why were Till’s murderers acquitted?
What impact did the Till murder have on blacks?
What is the NAACP?
1. Why wasn’t Rosa Park’s refusal to move from her bus seat an entirely spontaneous act?
2. How did the goals of the protest evolve over the course of the boycott?
3. What role did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. play in the boycott?
4. What methods were used to oppose the boycott?
5. Why was the boycott eventually successful?
6. What is the SCLC?
7. What were the two most important effects of the boycott?
1. How were black students denied access to
2. How were the Little Rock Nine eventually able to attend school?
3. Why was integration ended in 1958?
1. When and where did the sit-ins begin?
2. What was the goal of the sit-ins? Why were they eventually successful?
3. How did the sit-ins mark a change in the civil rights movement?
1. What was the goal of the Freedom Rides? How were they opposed?
2. Why were the Freedom Rides eventually successful?
1. What was the goal of the
2. What was the main theme of Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
3. Why did the movement use children as the primary demonstrators?
4. How did Bull Connor’s tactics contribute to the success of the campaign?
5. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
1. What was the purpose of the March on
2. What were the main points of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech?
1. Why was
2. Who was Medgar Evers?
3. Describe the various programs that were encompassed in Freedom Summer.
4. Who were Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney?
5. Describe the controversy at the 1964 Democratic National Convention that was precipitated by the MFDP.
1. Why was
2. Why was the decision made to march from
3. Describe the events at the
4. Why did Dr. King turn the march around on Tuesday?
5. Who were James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo?
6. Why was the march eventually successful?
7. What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
8. Why did the
1) Thirteenth Amendment
2) Freedmen
3) Reconstruction
4) Black Codes
5) Fourteenth Amendment
6) Reconstruction Acts of 1867
7) Fifteenth Amendment
8) Reconstruction Governments
9) Hiram R. Revels
10) Scalawags
11) Carpetbaggers
12) Sharecropping
13) Ku Klux Klan
14) Lynching
15) Poll Tax
16) Literacy Test
17)
Plessy v.
18) Jim Crow Laws
19) Booker T. Washington
20) W.E.B. DuBois
21) NAACP
22) Madame C.J. Walker
23) George Washington Carver
24) Great Migration
25) Harry Truman
26) Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
27) Emmett Till
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School Integration in
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March on
32) Civil Rights Act of 1964
33) Freedom Summer
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Voting Rights Act of 1965