Quarter 3 – Mid-term Review

1. Quarter 3 – Mid-term Review Mr. Wrobel Contemporary American History

2. Generally speaking, when was the “Civil Rights Era” in America?

3. 1960s

4. What does SNCC stand for?

5. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

6. Who originally used the phrase “black power” to describe the goal of the later civil rights movement?

7. Stokely Carmichael

8. What is a Poll Tax?

9. A fee that you have to pay in order to vote. It was a way of stopping poor people from voting

10. How were grandfather clauses used to stop African Americans from voting?

11. They said, “you can’t vote unless your grandfathers voted” …so no African-Americans could vote

12. Why did Dr. Martin Luther King write A Letter From the Birmingham Jail.

13. Because he wanted to show that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Essentially, that he was not an “outsider”.

14. What organization was Dr. Martin Luther King both founder and president of?

15. The SCLCSouthern Christian Leadership Council

16. What were popular non-violent demonstrations used by civil rights activists to shed light on their causes?

17. Sit-ins 2. Strikes3. Boycotts

18. 1963 was a huge year in the civil rights struggle in America. Name an event that occured during that formative year?

19. March on Washington2. Medgar Evers Murder3. Bombing of 16th st. Baptist Church4. Bull Connor uses fire hoses on protesters

20. What group of people did Dr. Martin Luther King address in his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail?

21. Local Clergymen, or religious leaders

22. What famous protest was sparked by Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Transit bus?

23. The Montgomery Bus Boycott

24. What does “xenophobia” mean?

25. Fear of foreigners

26. Why did Emmitt Till’s mother insist on having an “open casket funeral” for her murdered son?

27. To raise awareness of the brutal nature of her son’s murder

28. What Was Executive order 8802

29. The first time the Federal Government officially banned descrimination

30. Into how many parts could the Civil Rights Era be divided into?

31. Three

32. Which part of the civil rights era was more militant?

33. The Second part BPP BAMN

34. What is one reason that civil rights became a major issue in America after World War II?

35. African American soldiers who had just fought in W.W. II saw that other countries weren’t as racist as Americans

36. What famous court case established the “separate but equal” doctrine in the United States?

37. Plessy vs. Ferguson

38. What famous court case struck down “separate but equal” saying it was “unconstitutional”?

39. Brown vs. Board of Education

40. What was one of the reasons that the court used to justify ending “separate but equal”?

41. They said it was obviously that the white version was always better than the one for African-Americans

42. Point breakdown of the Midterm

43. Total – 100 points

44. 20 Multiple Choice2 points each – 40 points

45. Two Short Answer written response. 10 points each – 20 points

46. One MEL-Con Paragraph40 points

47. Short answer and MEL-Con review

48. What is the first thing you need to write an effective MEL-Con?

49. 3 Pieces of Evidence

50. How many sentences (minimum) are there in a COMPLETE MEL-Con