Starter quiz
- What is it called when groups of people are separated from one another?
- 'segregation' ✓
- Write the missing word, which relates to economic inequality. A greater proportion of African Americans lived in ______ than was the case for white Americans, who tended to be richer.
- 'poverty' ✓
- Which statement is most accurate? A) The US Army was desegregated for WWII, with white and black Americans mixed together. B) The US Army remained segregated for WWII.
- 'B' ✓
- What name is often used to refer to the hunt for communists in the USA during the early 1950s?
- Eisenhowerism
- McCarthyism ✓
- Rooseveltism
- Trumanism
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- Which conflict was most responsible for encouraging the second Red Scare in the USA?
- WWI
- WWII
- Cold War ✓
- Vietnam War
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔slavery abolished in the USA
- 2⇔USA fights in WWI
- 3⇔'boom years' in the USA
- 4⇔Great Depression
- 5⇔USA fights in WII
- 6⇔Cold War begins
- 7⇔second Red Scare in the USA
Exit quiz
- Write the missing word. Something is ______ if it is allowed under the constitution of a political system.
- 'constitutional' ✓
- What is it called when segregation is ended?
- 'desegregation' ✓
- When did the US Supreme Court rule that school segregation was unconstitutional?
- 1865
- 1896
- 1917
- 1941
- 1954 ✓
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- What was the acronym of the organisation which took the Brown v. Board of Education case to the Supreme Court?
- 'NAACP' ✓
- Identify the accurate consequences of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954.
- significant white opposition to desegregation ✓
- all schools in South began accepting both white and black students
- many African Americans enjoyed improved educational opportunities ✓
- federal troops were sent to all areas refusing to desegregate
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔slavery abolished
- 2⇔Jim Crow laws introduced
- 3⇔Supreme Court upholds segregation
- 4⇔NAACP founded
- 5⇔Supreme Court orders desegregation of schools
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Key learning points
- African Americans suffered from many forms of discrimination.
- Segregation was defended by the Supreme Court in 1896.
- Groups like the NAACP and church organisations campaigned in defence of black Americans' civil rights.
- The Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954.
- There was widespread opposition to school desegregation in many parts of the South.
Common misconception
The Brown v. Board ruling in 1954 led to desegregation across the South.
School desegregation was resisted bitterly in many parts of the South. In some states, the Brown v. Board decision had no effect on how schools were run even by the start of the 1960s.
Keywords
Segregation - when groups of people are separated from one another
Constitutional - something that is allowed under the laws of a political system
Civil rights - the rights that everyone in a country has
Federal - something related to the national government of the USA, rather than the government of individual states
Desegregate - to end segregation
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