FROM SLAVERY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Comment appelle t-on les états du sud des Etats Unis?

• South America
• The Southern States
• South
• All of the above

What name was given to Northerners? 

• Abolitionists
• Rebels
• Free spirits
• None of the above

During the Civil War (1863-1865)

• The Northern States were pro-slave states
• The Nothern States fougth for the Union and abolition of Slavery
• The Southern States were abolotionits.

Who put an end to slavery?

• Abraham Lincoln in 1865 withe 13th Amendment.
• President John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address,in 1963
• Martin Luther King in his "I have a dream speech" in 1963

What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws?
 

• To keep black people and white people separate
• To keep black people from voting
• Segregation
• All of the above.

What areas of society were affected by Jim Crow Laws?
 

• Schools
• Restaurants
• Transportation
• All of the above

Who is this woman?

• Elisabeth Eckford
• Annie Lee Cooper
• Rosa Parks

African Americans fought against discrimination on public transportation in which century? 

• 18th century
• 19th century
• 20th century
• All of the above

Which of the following is true of Rosa Parks, the woman who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 when she was arrested for defying the law segregating the city’s buses?  

• She refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was tired.
• Her refusal to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 was not  her first act of resistance against segregation.
• At the time of this incident, she was an old seamstress( couturière) who had never been politically active.
• none of the above

How long did  the Montgomery Bus Boycott last? 

• One day
• One week
• One month
• One year