Chapter 13

Chapter 13

1. How much money did Clarendon County spend on black students compared to white students?
2. What does NAACP stand for?
3. What is an Appeal?
4. How did Barbara Johns protest the decision not to build a new school?
5. Who argued the case for the NAACP?
6. What were the two arguments that the NAACP used in their case?
7. Who was the Chief Justice of the Court at the time?
8. What was the ruling in the case Brown v Board of Education?
9. How many justices voted for, and against, the ruling?
10. How did Prince Edward County react to the ruling?
11. Why do you think that some people had a hard time accepting the ruling?

Logical Fallacies - 7th/8th Grade

Ch 12 - 7/8th Grade

Chapter 12

1. What was Homer Plessy arrested for ?
2. What was the result of Plessy v Ferguson?
3. Define “separate but equal”.
4. Why couldn’t Charlie Houston get a job at a big law firm?
5. What did he do instead?
6. What did Thurgood Marshall have to say about segregation? (write the quote)
7. Define illiterate.
8. In Alaska, which other groups were discriminated against?
9. In what year did Native Americans receive U.S. Citizenship?
10. Why is Feb 16 celebrated as Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska?
11. What are your thoughts on the things Allen Shattuck said about segregation?

Name that fallacy!

11/12th Grade US History Homework

147 - 155

1. What is Republicanism and why was it so important to the colonies following the war?
2. How were state constitutions different than the British Constitution?
3. Why is a strong executive important?
4. Why did slavery persist in the colonies?
5. How were states represented in the government created by the Articles of confederation, and why was it that way?
6. What disputes did the US have with Britain following the war, and how did the British respond to these disputes?
7. What was the Northwest Ordinance, why was it necessary, and what did it do?
8. What were the effects of the economic depression that the country went through following the war?
9. Describe (in detail) the events of Shay’s rebellion.

Chapter 10 - 7th/8th Grade

Chapter 10

1. What caused the “baby boom”?
2. What is a suburb, and why did people move there?
3. As people moved to the suburbs, what happened to the cities?
4. Describe Levittown.
5. What are some advantages of oil over coal?
6. What made Holiday Inn different than other motels?
7. What is a carhop?
8. Several changes were made to make McDonald’s more efficient, what were they?
9. Define franchise.
10. Define ubiquitous.
11. Describe (in detail) suburbia, both the positives and the negatives.

US History Study Guide - Early America's Test

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Essay Topic Examples - US History 11/12

Biographies:

Chief Justice John Marshall

Henry Clay

John C. Calhoun

John Adams

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

Andrew Jackson

Robert E. Lee

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