History 12 Week Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
13th amendment | abolished slavery |
14th amendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |
15th amendment | gave the right to vote to all citizens |
Plessy vs. Fergusson | "seperate but equal" was ok. wasnt really equal. Plessy sat in all white train and wouldn't move. he was arrested and lost the case saying that it violated his rights of the 14th amendment |
Jackie Robinson | integrated the MLB |
Brown vs Boe | Linda Brown, 7, was not permitted to attend a white school. Thurgood Marshall Argued that it was against the 14th amendment to do so. Brown won. overturned plassy vs ferguson |
Thurgood Marshall | the chief lawyer for the NAACP |
NAACP | national association for the advancement of colored people. helped blacks gain rights. Helped with freedom rides, boycotts, sit ins, freedom summer |
doll test | Marshall put a black and White doll in a black school and in a white school. both schools said the white one was better because of its skin color |
Montegummory bus boycott | Rosa Parks sat in white seat on bus and refused to move. she was arrested. looked really bad because she was an old woman in jail |
Rosa Parks | old woman who was the person in the montegummory bus boycott |
Martin Luthar King Junior | Civil rights activist- I have a dream speech- assasinated |
The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement. Nine black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were denied entrance to the school in defiance of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering integration of public scho |
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