Twelve Years a Slave | Civil War Amendments | Reconstruction and the Jim Crow Era | Supreme Court | Just Mercy |
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What is Solomon Northup?
Platt's real name
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Who is President Lincoln?
Above all, this president wanted to “save the Union"
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Who is Jim Crow?
A minstrel show character portraying the ‘lazy, comic negro’…
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Who is Homer Plessy?
One of his great-grandparents was black when he made the mistake of riding in the “Whites Only” section of the Louisiana railcar.
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Where did Bryan Stevenson attend law school?
Harvard
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Where was Solomon captured and sold into slavery?
Washington, D.C.
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Issued January 1, 1863, this technically freed no slaves.
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What is a literacy test?
Applicants must first give a “reasonable interpretation” of the state constitution
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What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This court case found that the 14th Amendment “could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based on color…”
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What message was Bryan supposed to give to the prisoner on death row?
“You will not die this year.”
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How much cotton did Patsy pick each day?
500 pounds a day
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What is the 13th Amendment?
This legislation eliminated slavery
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What is lynching?
Victims of this usually died at “the hands of persons unknown”…
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What is United States versus Reese?
This 1875 case declared that the 15th Amendment “did not, in fact, confer the right of suffrage upon anyone…” (you can look this up online...)
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What is Justice?
According to Stevenson, the opposite of poverty is...
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Who was Solomon's second master?
Master Epps
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What is the 15th Amendment?
This legislation guaranteed the right to vote
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Who is Sam Hose?
He was lynched and burned, twice, in front of a gathering of 2000 in Newnan, Georgia
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What is the Dred Scott case?
This landmark Supreme Court case declared that blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” (you can look this up online)
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Who was Walter McMillan accused of murdering?
Ronda Morrison
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Where did Solomon hide the paper he used to write for his freedom?
Hidden in a tree
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What is citizenship OR due process OR equal protection?
The 14th Amendment guaranteed this…
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Who is Booker T. Washington?
He said, “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as five fingers.”
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Who is Justice John Harlan?
This Supreme Court Justice was the lone dissenter in the Plessy decision, noting that “our Constitution is color-blind.”
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What year did the US Supreme Court strike down statutes forbidding interracial marriage?
1967
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