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Paparazzo Questions: “This is the significance of black power as a slogan. For once, black people are going to use the words they want to use—not just the words whites want to hear…. The need for psychological equality is the reason why SNCC today believes that blacks must organize in the black community. Only black people can …create in the community an aroused and continuing black consciousness…. Black people must do things for themselves; they must get…money they will control and spend themselves; they must conduct tutorial programs themselves so that black children can identify with black children.” --Stokely Carmichael

What is meant by “black power,” in the passage above and in the era the phrase was coined? Show Explanations Teacher Explanation Student Explanation Teacher Explanation Student Explanation Teacher Explanation Student Explanation ** US History H2 **
 * A || Physical self-defense and even violence is an option for African Americans. ||
 * B || African Americans’ should take control of their destiny. ||
 * C || African Americans should be proud of their heritage. ||
 * D || All of the above. ||

Using the chart above, why do you think the Supreme Court’s decision in Morgan v. Virginia did not prevent the Rosa Parks incident from happening? Show Explanations Teacher Explanation Student Explanation Teacher Explanation Student Explanation Teacher Explanation Student Explanation ** US History H2 **
 * **Supreme Court Decisions on Civil Rights ** ||
 * Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) || “Separate-but-equal” doctrine: Segregation was permitted as long as equal facilities were provided for African Americans ||
 * Norris v. Alabama (1935) || African American should not be excluded form serving on juries. ||
 * Morgan v. Virgina (1946) || Segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. ||
 * Sweatt v. Painter (1950) || State law schools had to admit qualified African American candidates. ||
 * Brown v. Board of Education (1954) || <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ||
 * A || <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">The Supreme Court did not rule on that case until after Rosa Parks sat on the bus. ||
 * B || <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Supreme Court case applied to interstate buses, not local buses. ||
 * C || <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Rosa Parks staged her protest in Alabama, not Virginia. ||
 * D || <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Supreme Court decisions do not apply to states. ||

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; msobidifontstyle: italic; msolist: Ignore;">— //<span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Italic','serif';">Excerpt from an unsigned editorial in the // <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif';">Labor Standard, //<span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Italic','serif';">June 16, 1877 // ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif';">When our moneyed classes . . . found out that living and gathering riches on the half-paid toil of workers was a pleasant thing they had no further scruples. . . . They seemed . . . to adopt Vespasian’s famous maxim, “ill-gotten gains do not stink.”

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19. <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif';">The author of the excerpt above describes a condition that resulted from industrialization and criticizes the — <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msobidifontfamily: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msofareastfontfamily: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msolist: Ignore;">A) <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif';">wealthy for taking advantage of workers <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msobidifontfamily: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msofareastfontfamily: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msolist: Ignore;">B) <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif';">workers for not joining trade unions <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msobidifontfamily: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msofareastfontfamily: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman; msolist: Ignore;">C) <span style="font-family: 'NewCenturySchlbk-Roman','serif';">workers for not supporting management D)government for protecting workers ** US History H3 **


 * “We thought we was goin’ to be richer than the white folks, ‘cause we was stronger and knowed how to work, and the whites didn’t and they didn’t have us to work for them anymore. But it didn’t turn out that way. We soon found out that the freedom could make folks proud but it didn’t make ‘em rich.” --Felix Haywood, former enslaved worker ||

<span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">A) African Americans weren’t really free. <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: NewCaledonia; mso-fareast-font-family: NewCaledonia; msobidifontfamily: NewCaledonia; msofareastfontfamily: NewCaledonia; msolist: Ignore;">B) <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">African Americans would be richer than their former white slaveholders. <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: NewCaledonia; mso-fareast-font-family: NewCaledonia; msobidifontfamily: NewCaledonia; msofareastfontfamily: NewCaledonia; msolist: Ignore;">C) <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Whites would not be successful without enslaved African Americans to help them. <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: NewCaledonia; mso-fareast-font-family: NewCaledonia; msobidifontfamily: NewCaledonia; msofareastfontfamily: NewCaledonia; msolist: Ignore;">D) <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">African Americans were destined to fail, free or enslaved. ** US History H3 **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'NewCaledonia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">What did Haywood think would happen after African Americans were emancipated?

Central Powers Allied Powers Neutral nations

9. Based on this map, which group of nations had a geographical advantage in the war? A) Central Powers because they were the only ones with access to the sea. B) The Allied Powers because they surrounded their enemy. C) The neutral nations because they did not border the nations in conflict. D) Neither side that was fighting because they had an equal area of land. ** US History G4 **

The Great Migration that occurred during the early 1900’s impacted the ethnic regions of Northern cities in what way? E) Whites fled the cities and created new regions called suburbs. F) Cultures clashed and African Americans were forced to move South.

How might barbwire protect the farms of the White Settlers in the West? G) Protect crops and homes from migrating buffalo. H) Barbwire was a failure that had no impact on protecting the homesteads. I)  J) At first terribly but as more settlers came West, the Native American drove them out. ** US History G2 **

How did the Westward movement of White Settlers impact the Western Environment? K) The Settlers lived in harmony with nature and the local cultures. L) They changed the environment to fit their agricultural and urban needs. M) The terrain was too rough and they failed in their attempts to modify it. N) The settlers came in too few numbers to impact the environment. ** US History G2 **