WEBQUEST SLAVERY

In order to understand better the history of African-Americans,

you had better find the answers to these questions!

SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/slavery.html

• 1. When did first slaves arrive in America?

  2. Where did they come from?

1. During which major event of American History was the “Emancipation Proclamation” proclaimed? Give the exact date, say who proclaimed it, and explain its content.

2. When was slavery officially abolished in the US?

   1. When was the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution ratified? What rights did it give recently freed slaves?

http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/civil-rights-movement1.htm

6.What were the “Jim Crow laws”? What did they impose? (mainly 3 things)

http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/civil-rights-movement1.htm

7.What is the NAACP? When was it created?

http://www.naacp.org

8. What were the NAACP's aims when they were founded?

9.What is the Ku Klux Klan?

http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.html

10.What is lynching how is it related to the Ku Klux Klan?

http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/lynching

12.Look up in the dictionnary for a definition of "civil rights" , "human rights" and "segragation"

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civil+rights

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/human%20rights?s=t