Unit 8 Study Guide – Chapters 14 – 15

Instructions: Use your notes and the textbook to answer the following questions.

  1. Who was the founder of the NAACP in 1910?
  2. Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute?
  3. What was Wilson’s plan for peace at the end of WWI called?
  4. Who was the founder of the “Back to Africa” movement in the 1920s?
  5. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
  6. What was the Great Migration?
  7. Who pressured President Roosevelt to sign executive order 8802, promising fair hiring practices during WWII?
  8. Under what policy did the US gave aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism.
  9. What is the difference between de facto and de jure segregation? Which one was more common in the North?
  10. Who was the first African Americans to play in major league baseball?
  11. What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
  12. Why did President Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
  13. How did the black community react to Rosa Park’s arrest in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?
  14. What is civil disobedience?
  15. What were the goals of the Freedom Riders in the summer of 1961?
  16. When and where did MLK give his “I Have a Dream” speech?
  17. In what way did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect employment in the United States?
  18. What law caused the sharp rise in African American voter registration in the 1960s
  19. Which amendment to the US Constitution bans the use of a poll tax?
  20. What group was Malcolm X a part of?
  21. What non-violent ways did the Black Panthers promote “black power”?
  22. What happened in Watts and Detroit shortly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
  23. What arguments did people use to prevent affirmative action?

Unit 8 Study Guide – Chapters 14 – 15

Instructions: Use your notes and the textbook to answer the following questions.

  1. Who was the founder of the NAACP in 1910?
  2. Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute?
  3. What was Wilson’s plan for peace at the end of WWI called?
  4. Who was the founder of the “Back to Africa” movement in the 1920s?
  5. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
  6. What was the Great Migration?
  7. Who pressured President Roosevelt to sign executive order 8802, promising fair hiring practices during WWII?
  8. Under what policy did the US gave aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism.
  9. What is the difference between de facto and de jure segregation? Which one was more common in the North?
  10. Who was the first African Americans to play in major league baseball?
  11. What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
  12. Why did President Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
  13. How did the black community react to Rosa Park’s arrest in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?
  14. What is civil disobedience?
  15. What were the goals of the Freedom Riders in the summer of 1961?
  16. When and where did MLK give his “I Have a Dream” speech?
  17. In what way did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect employment in the United States?
  18. What law caused the sharp rise in African American voter registration in the 1960s
  19. Which amendment to the US Constitution bans the use of a poll tax?
  20. What group was Malcolm X a part of?
  21. What non-violent ways did the Black Panthers promote “black power”?
  22. What happened in Watts and Detroit shortly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
  23. What arguments did people use to prevent affirmative action?