American History: 1.2 Key Dates of Events and Statistics

Question 1

Congress passed 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery

Answer 1

31 January 1865

Question 2

14th Amendment passed which made all people born or naturalised in the USA (inc. those who had been slaves) US Citizens

Answer 2

9 July 1868

Question 3

15th Amendment passed declaring that all US citizens had the same voting rights

Answer 3

3 February 1870

Question 4

Year when Fannie Lou Hamer went to vote in Ruleville, Mississippi and was sacked from her job and she was told that people weren’t “ready” for her to do this

Answer 4

1962

Question 5

Year when black Americans were supposedly free and equal

Answer 5

1870

Question 6

Year when Wilson introduced segregation in government offices and the White House

Answer 6

1913

Question 7

Year when there was about 25 anti-black race riots, often set off by police injustice and hundreds were killed

Answer 7

1919

Question 8

By which year did the South have a large number of Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 8

1917

Question 9

By ? the number of black Americans registered to vote had dropped considerably

Answer 9

1917

Question 10

Number of black voters in Louisiana

Answer 10

Fell from 130,334 in 1896 to 1,342 in 1904

Question 11

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 11

1896

Question 12

Lynchings of 65 white men and 579 black men

Answer 12

Between 1915 and 1930

Question 13

Emmett Till lynched

Answer 13

1955

Question 14

KKK revived

Answer 14

1915

Question 15

Estimate of membership of KKK by 1925

Answer 15

Between 3 and 8 million

Question 16

How many segregated people did Harding speak to at the Uni of Alabama about the evils of segregation?

Answer 16

30,000

Question 17

Who were committed to Laissez-Faire?

Answer 17

Harding and Coolidge

Question 18

Great Migration

Answer 18

1917-32

Question 19

By ? almost 40% of African Americans in the North were living in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus Ohio

Answer 19

1920

Question 20

Population of New York in 1910, 1920 and 1930

Answer 20

91,709
152,467
327,706

Question 21

Population of Detroit in 1910, 1920 and 1930

Answer 21

5,741
40,838
120,066

Question 22

Population of Chicago in 1910, 1920 and 1930

Answer 22

44,103
109,458
233,903

Question 23

Great Depression

Answer 23

1929-39

Question 24

During the 19…s black voters shifted from mainly voting republican (who abolished slavery) to voting democrat (New Deal)

Answer 24

1930s

Question 25

NAACP established

Answer 25

1910

Question 26

NAACP turned down the case of 9 young black men framed for raping 2 white girls on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama

Answer 26

1931

Question 27

In the early 19...s, Birmingham, Alabama had 6 black American members of the NAACP and 3,000 + black American communists

Answer 27

1930s

Question 28

Another depression hit the USA in

Answer 28

1937

Question 29

Resettlement Administration set up by Executive Order 7027 in

Answer 29

May 1935

Question 30

The Resettlement Administration still only helped

Answer 30

3,400 of 200,000+ farmers

Question 31

In ..... around 2 million people signed a petition for Federal Aid to move to Africa

Answer 31

1939

Question 32

In September ? WW2 broke out in Europe

Answer 32

1939

Question 33

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on

Answer 33

7 December 1941

Question 34

USA's first conscription bill pushed through Congress

Answer 34

1940

Question 35

A. Philip Randolph threatened a 100,000 strong all-black march on Washington unless Roosevelt banned discrimination in the army and in defence factories

Answer 35

May 1941

Question 36

Summer of 1942 - 3% of defence workers black | 1944 - rose to ...

Answer 36

8%

Question 37

What year saw outbreaks of racist violence and strikes lead by white people over having to work with blacks for the war effort?

Answer 37

1943

Question 38

In 19..., Truman set up the President's Committee on Civil Rights, which called for equal opportunities in work and housing

Answer 38

1946

Question 39

In 19..., Truman issued Executive Orders desegregating the military and all work done by businesses for the government

Answer 39

1948

Question 40

UN set up

Answer 40

1945

Question 41

Direct Action

Answer 41

1917-55

Question 42

NAACP membership went from 9,000 in 1917 to 90,000 in 1919 and 600,000 in ...

Answer 42

1946

Question 43

Some separatists such as Marcus Garvey in the early 19...s suggested that the answer was to do what white racists told them to do - go back to Africa

Answer 43

Early 1920s

Question 44

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 44

1908-93

Question 45

Marshall became the NAACP's chief legal counsel in ...

Answer 45

1940

Question 46

During the 1940s and 50s, Marshall took 32 segregation cases to the Supreme Court and won ? of them

Answer 46

29

Question 47

Sweet Trial

Answer 47

1926

Question 48

Murray vs Maryland

Answer 48

1936

Question 49

Gaines vs Canada

Answer 49

1938

Question 50

Morgan vs Virginia

Answer 50

1946

Question 51

Shelley vs Kraemer

Answer 51

1948

Question 52

Sweatt vs Painter and McLaurin Vs Oklahoma

Answer 52

1950

Question 53

Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 53

1954

Question 54

CORE set up

Answer 54

1942

Question 55

Fellowship of Reconciliation founded

Answer 55

1914

Question 56

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 56

1955

Question 57

Rosa Parks

Answer 57

1 Dec 1955

Question 58

Supreme Court ruled bus segregation as unconstitutional

Answer 58

13 Nov. 1956

Question 59

King set up the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

Answer 59

1957

Question 60

Little Rock integrated buses

Answer 60

1956

Question 61

Little Rock,Arkansas

Answer 61

1957

Question 62

Greensboro sit-in

Answer 62

1 Feb. 1960

Question 63

SNCC set up (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Answer 63

15 April 1960

Question 64

Freedom Rides

Answer 64

1961

Question 65

Birmingham

Answer 65

1963 (campaign began 3 April)

Question 66

After Birmingham, 42% of people said that race was the USA's most pressing problem. How many had said this in 1962?

Answer 66

Only 4%

Question 67

March on Washington

Answer 67

August 1963

Question 68

Freedom Summer

Answer 68

1964

Question 69

About 17,000 blacks tried to register to vote in 1964. Only ? were accepted

Answer 69

1,600

Question 70

Malcolm X

Answer 70

1925-65

Question 71

Stokely Carmichael set up the Lowndes County Freedom Organisation

Answer 71

1965

Question 72

Black power clenched fist symbol used by medalists in which Olympics?

Answer 72

Mexico 1968

Question 73

Major riots in NY, Chicago and Philadelphia

Answer 73

1964

Question 74

The Northern Crusades

Answer 74

1966

Question 75

MLK assassinated

Answer 75

4 April 1968

Question 76

Segregation of interstate buses banned all over the USA

Answer 76

25 Nov. 1955

Question 77

Autherine Lucy - first black student to go to the Uni of Mississippi - white riots so bad she got expelled

Answer 77

Feb. - March 1956

Question 78

102 Southern Congressmen signed the Southern Manifesto condemning Brown vs Board of Education

Answer 78

12 March 1956

Question 79

James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi- faced rioting and needed the help of 3,000 federal troops

Answer 79

30 Sep. 1962

Question 80

The Governor of Alabama stops 2 black students desegregating the university - Kennedy takes over state troops to make it happen

Answer 80

11 June 1963

Question 81

Medgar Evers (Leader of Mississippi NAACP) shot

Answer 81

12 June 1963

Question 82

March on Washington

Answer 82

28 Aug. 1963

Question 83

People @March on Washington

Answer 83

Est. 200,000 to 500,000

Question 84

Black Church Sunday School (in Birmingham) bombed - 4 girls killed

Answer 84

15 Sept. 1963

Question 85

Civil Rights Act passed banning discrimination in voting, public services and work

Answer 85

2 July 1964

Question 86

MLK awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Answer 86

10 Dec. 1964

Question 87

Civil Rights voter registration campaign in Selma, Montgomery - mass arrests, campaigner shot

Answer 87

2 July 1964

Question 88

Selma to Montgomery March (in response to the shooting) - more arrests, more violence, federal troop escort ends the march

Answer 88

7 March 1965

Question 89

Civil Rights Act sets up Civil Rights Commission and gives federal justice department more rights to supervise voter registration

Answer 89

29 Aug. 1957

Question 90

Civil Rights Act - Now crime to obstruct federal orders e.g. school desegregation by threat or force Authorises federal "referees" for voting

Answer 90

6 May 1960

Question 91

Kennedy's Executive Order 1106 - bans discrimination in allocation of federal housing

Answer 91

20 Nov. 1962

Question 92

Civil Rights Act bans discrimination for sex or race in hiring, firing and promoting Equal Opportunities Commission set up to enforce this

Answer 92

2 July 1964

Question 93

Voting Rights Act passed banning attempts to stop people voting because of race Provisions put in place for 5 years The enforcement provisions have to be reconfirmed with extensions in 1970, 1975, 1982 and 2007

Answer 93

6 Aug. 1965

Question 94

Emergency School Aid Act - funds schools that are desegregating or struggling to desegregate Follow up Act 2 years later

Answer 94

21 May 1970

Question 95

Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education- upholds policy of busing children out of poor areas to desegregated schools

Answer 95

20 April 1971

Question 96

Education Amendments Act - restricts busing by giving more money to inner-city schools for improvements

Answer 96

23 June 1972

Question 97

97% of black students remained in segregated schools

Answer 97

1968

Question 98

In ?, 58% of blacks were still in segregated schools in Southern states

Answer 98

1968

Question 99

Between 1965 and 66, a further ? black people registered to vote

Answer 99

230,000

Question 100

The number of black voters in the US jumped from 4 million in ? to 6 million in ?

Answer 100

1960 | 1965

Question 101

In ?, there was sit-ins in 200 cities which resulted in 161 desegregated restaurants and canteens

Answer 101

1963

Question 102

During the 19...s and ....s, black unemployment was twice the national average

Answer 102

1950s and 60s

Question 103

? out of the 31 states with the highest proportion of black people introduced Fair Employment Practice Laws

Answer 103

25

Question 104

Unemployment of blacks was still 7% in ?

Answer 104

1968

Question 105

The average income of a black person was 61% of the income of a white person in ?

Answer 105

1968

Question 106

In ?, 80% of the public said they supported desegregation of education

Answer 106

1964

Question 107

In ? only 50% of the public said they supported equal rights in housing

Answer 107

1964