Background Information for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Question 1

Jim Crow laws were created to

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segregate blacks from whites.

Question 2

Civil Rights ensured businessess would serve the public without regard to race in

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1964

Question 3

Slavery was abolished because

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of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 4

The value of stocks went way down because

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everyone sold thier stocks in a panic.

Question 5

Farmers developed an overproduction of wheat during

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The Dust Bowl.

Question 6

The first group of Americans that were affected by The Great Depression were

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farmers.

Question 7

Dividing land and renting out plots in exchange for a percentage of crops is known as

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sharecropping.

Question 8

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) temporarily

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reset prices to assit America's farmers.

Question 9

The 15th Amendment gives

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black men the right to vote.

Question 10

In 1932, Herbert Hoover lost the presidential election to

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 11

The 13th Amendment officially

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banned slavery.

Question 12

The stock market crashed on

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October 29, 1929

Question 13

Rosa Parks was arrested under the Jim Crow laws for

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not giving up her seat to a white man on a bus.

Question 14

Jim Crow is a

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racist term to identify African Americans.

Question 15

Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to correct the damage of The Great Depression with

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The New Deal.

Question 16

The wheat made the land

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unsuitable for planting.

Question 17

Segregation became illegal after the push of the

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Civil Rights Movement.

Question 18

When farmers started losing their money which group of people began losing their jobs?

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Black Farm Laborers

Question 19

The stock market crash resulted in

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farming debt for many Americans., all of these choices., The Great Depression., bankruptcy.

Question 20

The 14th Amendment guarantees

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equal rights for African Americans.

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