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Civil Rights Drag Along Flashcards

1
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Covers one aspect of someone’s life- one time period

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Memoir

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2
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The battle of Gettysburg was in which state and how many casualties were there?

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It was in Pennsylvania and there were 8,000 deaths

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3
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Occasion of Gettysburg address

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Dedication of cemetery

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4
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Define score

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A score is 20 years for example: 4 score and 7 = 87

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5
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What does the literary term antithesis deal with

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Opposites

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6
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Repeating the same elements of sentence structure is what

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Parallel structure

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7
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What is the extended metaphor in the Gettysburg address

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Birth/rebirth

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8
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Why was the battle of Gettysburg so important

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Because it turn the war in favor of the north

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The speech that praises the dead and gives advice to the living

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Eulogy

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10
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What was Lincoln by profession and his education

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His profession was a lawyer and he was self educated

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11
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Where did slavery began in America and when

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It began in Jamestown 1619

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12
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What invention called slavery to increase in the north and why

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The Cottongin and it increased the output of cotton

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13
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Who was the leader of the underground railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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14
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Who is the former slave famous for speaking and his autobiography

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Frederick Douglass

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15
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Who is famous for writing “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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16
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What is the invention of what made reporting of the Civil War more effective

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Telegraph

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17
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Who shot President Lincoln and in what building

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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln and in the Ford’s theater

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18
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What year did Little Rock Central integrate

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1957

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19
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Who was the governor of Arkansas when Little Rock Central was integrated

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Orval Faubus

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20
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Who was the NAACP leader who mentored the students

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Daisy Bates

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21
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Who is the famous lawyer credited with winning brown versus board

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Thurgood Marshall

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22
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Who was the president who sent in the U.S. Army

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Dwight Eisenhower

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23
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Who was the African-American girl in the famous hate photo

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Elizabeth Eckford

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24
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What is Melba Pattillo’s mothers name and occupation

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Her name is Lois and she’s a teacher

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Who is Melba’s grandmother’s name and occupation

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Her name is India and she is a maid

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26
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What is Melba’s brothers name

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Conrad

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27
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What is Melba’s boyfriends name

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Vince

28
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What is grandma’s shotguns name

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Mr. Higgenbottom

29
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Who is Melbas closest friends name

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Minnijean Brown

30
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Which girl have the heart problem

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Thelma Mothershed

31
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Who was the only one of the nine to graduate from Central

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Ernest Green

32
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Which court case ended segregation and when

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Brown versus Board of Education ended it and it was in 1954

33
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What was Melba’s army guard’s name

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Danny

34
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Which amendment outlawed slavery

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13th amendment

35
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Who was the 14-year-old boy lynched in 1955 in Mississippi

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Emmett Till

36
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Where was Rosa Parks from

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Montgomery, Alabama

37
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Where was Martin Luther King Jr. from

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Atlanta, Georgia

38
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Who was the leader in India who advocated nonviolent protest

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Gandhi

39
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Who were the people in India seeking independence from

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Great Britain

40
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NAACP

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National Association for the advancement of colored people

41
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The role of freedom riders were related to what

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Busses

42
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The church that was bombed where the girls were killed

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16th St. Baptist Church

43
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The march on Washington was the hundredth anniversary of what

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The Emancipation Proclamation

44
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I have a dream speech was spoken in front of what

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Lincoln Memorial

45
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The focus of freedom summer of 1964 was on what

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Voter registration

46
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Who killed Martin Luther King and where

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James Earl Ray killed him and in Memphis

47
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Who was the first African-American at the University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

48
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Who is the NAACP leader in Mississippi that was shot in his own driveway

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Medgar Evers

49
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Police attacked crowd on Selma, Alabama bridge

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Edmund Pettus

50
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What were the North Carolina protests at Woolworth’s lunch counters

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Sit-ins

51
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What was the 1896 Supreme Court decision created segregation

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Plessy versus Ferguson

52
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What was the fee imposed to keep African-Americans from voting

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Poll tax

53
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First African-American child to integrate elementary school

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Ruby Bridges

54
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“Mother to son” is a form of what

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Dramatic monologue

55
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Who is the famous African-American poet who wrote the poem

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Langston Hughes

56
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Regional speech

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Dialect

57
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What is a poem that doesn’t have a regular rhyming or rhythm pattern

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Free verse

58
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What is the name of an initiation Court

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Rat Court

59
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Main character in initiation and what did the birds symbolize

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The main character is Millicent and bird symbolize spiritual

60
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What types of bird are compared in initiation

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Sparrows and Heather birds

61
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Where was the sniper set in

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Ireland

62
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How was the sniper injured

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Shot in the arm

63
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What type of irony is at the end of the sniper

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Situational

64
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What is the brother’s name in the Scarlet Ibis and what year is it set in

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The brother’s name is Doodle and it is set in 1918

65
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Storms in literature represent what

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Conflict

66
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What is the child’s name in the flowers

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Myop

67
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Story someone’s life written by the person from birth to present

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Autobiography

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