American History X
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IMDB rating: 8.40 Plot: A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way. |
Actors: Norton Edward,Furlong Edward,Brooks Avery,Suplee Ethan,Keach Stacy,Gould Elliott,Torry Guy,Russ William,Cortese Joseph,Smith Jason Bose,Lyons Antonio David,Sol Alex,Crime,Drama,
Is anyone good at history?
Which phrase describes the treatment blacks received in the years before World War II?
(Points: 1)
separate but equal
integrated and equal
separate and unequal
integrated but unequal
2. Which was a hardship African Americans experienced in the years preceding World War II?
(Points: 1)
segregation in schools and forced to live in ghettos
discrimination in employment and forced to live in the South
difficulty voting and segregation in schools
problems marrying one another and difficulty voting
3. What were blacks hoping for following their service in World War II?
(Points: 1)
separate but equal schools
an end to Jim Crow laws
more opportunities for military service
farm subsidies for sharecroppers
4. Which is one way that life changed for many black Americans following World War II?
(Points: 1)
The lure of jobs took many to the North.
Farming in the South improved with better weather.
Housing segregation began to end.
Opportunities in the West increased migration there.
5. Whose actions challenged the racial status quo before 1950?
(Points: 1)
Eugene Connor and John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Malcom X
Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harry Truman and Jackie Robinson
6. Which organization worked to improve the situation for blacks in the 1940s?
(Points: 1)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Black Panthers
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
7. What was the outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?
(Points: 1)
Blacks could attend any public or private white school if they chose to.
Racial culture in the South quickly changed.
Public schools that separated students by race had to make changes.
The federal government now had a basis for the regulation and control of education.
8. What did blacks hope to gain by boycotting the buses in Montgomery, Alabama?
(Points: 1)
They wanted to see the fares go down so they could afford to ride.
They thought they would be arrested and the publicity would help their cause.
They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.
They wanted the Montgomery Bus Company to begin transporting students to public schools.
9. Which is an example of white resistance to desegregation?
(Points: 1)
proposing a Constitutional amendment to legalize segregation
closing public schools and providing private school vouchers to white parents
boycotting black-owned hotels and restuarants
sending the poorest white students into black schools
10. How did the federal government respond when the governor of Arkansas refused to allow black students to enroll in Little Rock’s Central High School?
(Points: 1)
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort and protect the students.
The federal government deferred to the rights of the state.
President Eisenhower met with the governor who then allowed the students to enroll.
The federal government reminded the governor that admission was a decision for the local school system, not the state.
11. What was one technique used by black and white activists to call attention to their demands?
(Points: 1)
picketing the White House and the Capitol
withholding rent from landlords
bus trips through the South promoting civil rights
boycotting sporting events
12. Use the information in the box and your knowledge to answer the question that follows.
What was King’s dream?
(Points: 1)
equality for all
freedom for blacks
a meeting of the minds
an understanding among religions
13. Use the information in the box and your knowledge to answer the question that follows.
Which of the following advertisements would have been illegal after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
(Points: 1)
A
B
C
D
14. Why did SNCC and CORE send hundreds of volunteers south during the Freedom Summer campaigns?
(Points: 1)
to challenge Jim Crow laws that kept blacks segregated from whites
to spread the message of "black power" to young blacks across the South
to help register hundreds of thousands of black voters in Mississippi
to protest Johnson’s Great Society programs in Alabama
15. Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and food stamps were _________.
(Points: 1)
ideas King came up with to lift urban African Americans out of poverty
part of Johnson’s War on Hunger
provisions of the Civil Rights A
Too much like doing your homework
quette2@btopenworld.com | Mar 03, 2010
I’m great at history. Here are the answers I say you should put down.
1) integrated and equal
2) discrimination in employment and forced to live in the South
3) more opportunities for military service
4) Farming in the South improved with better weather.
5) Eugene Connor and John F. Kennedy
6)Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
7)Racial culture in the South quickly changed.
8)They wanted the Montgomery Bus Company to begin transporting students to public schools.
9)closing public schools and providing private school vouchers to white parents
10) The federal government deferred to the rights of the state.
11)boycotting sporting events
12) a meeting of the minds
13) c
14) to spread the message of "black power" to young blacks across the South
15) ideas King came up with to lift urban African Americans out of poverty
Now of course you will have to check my answers before handing them in as your own. when you cheat like this, you never know if the person giving you the answers actually knows what they are talking about or if they are deliberately giving you the wrong answers for some reason. 
(Like maybe they want you to learn that it is important to do your own work.)
Lysa | Mar 04, 2010
