American Government Study Guide
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
SPECIAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Dr. S. Waymon
This is a MANDATORY homework assignment that is due in class on Thursday, March 7th, 2013.
(NO EXCUSES, NO EMAIL COPIES, NO LATE PAPERS)
This assignment should be typed (single or double spaced) and STAPLED.
UNSTAPLED COPIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
ANSWER QUESTIONS:
What historical event happened in Jamestown, Virginia 1619?
Write a brief summary about the institution of African American Slavery in America? What was the common life for most African American Slaves during this period? In What way(s) did this institution impact the U.S.?
Who wrote the book entitled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? Why was it so important in terms of public policy?
What U.S. State would be the first to secede (leave) the Union (U.S.) and join the Confederate States of
America? What was the argument concerning “nullification”? Why did the southern states want to leave the Union?
BRIEFLY DEFINE/EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING:
Missouri Compromise 1820 Ku Klux Klan
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
Dred Scott Decision (1857) Mendez vs. Westminster 1947
Emancipation Proclamation Brown vs. Board of Education 1954
Civil War Amendments Texas vs. Hernandez 1954
Freedman’s Bureau Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955
Black Codes Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws Votings Rights Act of 1965 Black Panther Party
COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PHILOSOPHIES OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS? BE SURE TO GIVE A BRIEF
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EACH
SPECIAL HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Dr. S. Waymon
This is a MANDATORY homework assignment that is due in class on Thursday, March 7th, 2013.
(NO EXCUSES, NO EMAIL COPIES, NO LATE PAPERS)
This assignment should be typed (single or double spaced) and STAPLED.
UNSTAPLED COPIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
ANSWER QUESTIONS:
What historical event happened in Jamestown, Virginia 1619?
Write a brief summary about the institution of African American Slavery in America? What was the common life for most African American Slaves during this period? In What way(s) did this institution impact the U.S.?
Who wrote the book entitled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? Why was it so important in terms of public policy?
What U.S. State would be the first to secede (leave) the Union (U.S.) and join the Confederate States of
America? What was the argument concerning “nullification”? Why did the southern states want to leave the Union?
BRIEFLY DEFINE/EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING:
Missouri Compromise 1820 Ku Klux Klan
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
Dred Scott Decision (1857) Mendez vs. Westminster 1947
Emancipation Proclamation Brown vs. Board of Education 1954
Civil War Amendments Texas vs. Hernandez 1954
Freedman’s Bureau Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955
Black Codes Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws Votings Rights Act of 1965 Black Panther Party
COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PHILOSOPHIES OF THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS? BE SURE TO GIVE A BRIEF
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EACH