Which amendment, ratified in 1865, ended slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States?

In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court said segregated public schools broke a promise in the Constitution. Which promise was it?

In 1870 an amendment barred denying a citizen's vote because of race, color, or previous enslavement. Which amendment was it?

President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. What did it declare?

Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and spoke across the North for abolition. What did he begin doing in 1847?

After escaping slavery in 1849, Harriet Tubman made about thirteen trips back to Maryland. What did she do on those trips?

Susan B. Anthony worked for years to win voting rights for women. What did she do in the 1872 presidential election?

The first women's rights convention in the United States met at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. What did its Declaration of Sentiments demand?

After Reconstruction, many states passed laws keeping Black and white Americans in separate schools, train cars, and waiting rooms. What are such laws called?

In 1954 the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. What did the Court rule?

In Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested. What had she done?

In August 1963 hundreds of thousands gathered in Washington, D.C. to march for jobs and freedom. What did Martin Luther King Jr. do there?

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. What did that law do?

Some states had used reading tests at the polls to keep Black citizens from registering. Which 1965 law banned those tests?

The Declaration of Independence stated in 1776 that all men are created equal. What was also true in the new United States at that time?

In 1920, after decades of organizing by women, a new amendment was ratified. What did it guarantee?

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and helpers that guided enslaved people to free states and to Canada.

Americans have organized many movements to win rights and equality. What organized movement began earliest?

White Americans often celebrated the Fourth of July as a celebration of freedom. In a famous 1852 speech, Frederick Douglass argued the holiday meant something very different to enslaved Americans. What did Douglass say?

What did abolitionists work to end in the United States?

Which amendment, ratified in 1964, banned poll taxes in federal elections?

The 14th Amendment of 1868 made people born in the United States citizens. Which group gained the citizenship it had been denied before?

The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, said the right to vote could not be denied because of race. By 1900, most Black men in the South could not vote. What had Southern states done in between?

In 1896 the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson allowed Jim Crow laws that kept Black and white Americans apart. What idea did the Court use to say they were legal?

In 1957 nine Black students needed federal troops to protect them as they entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began after Rosa Parks's arrest in 1955 and lasted more than a year. What ended it in December 1956?

During the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Black organizers of the boycott and Montgomery's city officials understood the protest very differently. How did each side see it?

Which civil rights leader is famous for the “I Have a Dream” speech?

The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, said the right to vote could not be denied because of sex. Yet many Black women in the South still could not vote for decades afterward. What continued to block their access to the ballot?

What is a sit-in?

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, declared enslaved people in Confederate states free. Yet enslaved people in Texas did not learn they were free until Union soldiers arrived on June 19, 1865, more than two years later. What does this gap show?

Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

In March 1965 marchers set out from Selma, Alabama, and state troopers attacked them on a bridge. What were the marchers demanding?

Which reformer helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls convention and wrote most of its Declaration of Sentiments?

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are best known for their work in which movement?

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta helped organize farm workers to fight for better pay and working conditions.

The American Indian Movement began in 1968. What did its members demand from the US government?

What did the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 do?

After the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, civil rights advocates and many Southern state officials understood the decision very differently. How did each side view the ruling?

During the Delano grape strike that began in 1965, the farm workers led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and the grape growers they worked for understood the strike very differently. How did each side see it?