"13th" Movie Guide

1. The statistics say that the United States is home to 5% of the world's population, but ______ % of the world's prisoners.

• 50
• 25
• 30
• 10

2. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to be _____, but there are exceptions, including _______.

3. Chattel slavery was an _______ system.

4. _________ was the first major blockbuster film in the USA.

5. The ritual of burning crosses was invented in this film. The _______________ had a tremendous burst of popularity after the film's release, and with it, came another wave of terrorism.

6. Mobs carried out lynchings. African Americans moving to other cities were NOT looking for economic opportunities; they were ______ from terror.

7. The Chicago boy _______ was violently killed after he allegedly whistled at a white woman **(years later she confessed that she lied)

8. After it became unacceptable to engage in open terrorism, then white people shifted to legal segregation and ________ laws. These laws relegated African Americans to a permanent second-class status.

9. Crime was increasing at the same time as the civil rights era. It became very easy for politicians to say that __________ was contributing to rising crime rates.

• guns
• the church
• the Civil Rights Movement

10. When Nixon talked about a "war on crime", he was really referring to the _________ political movements, anti-war movements, women's liberation and gay liberation movements.