Social Studies

12.7%

West & Central Africa

An Attorney that claimed that in reality seperate black public schools are bound to be poorer. He was the Attorney for Brown vs. The Board of Education. He was the first African American to be on the US Supreme Court.

In the South, because the slave trade came into port in the South because they were coming from Africa.

Passed in 1964. It banned all racial discrimination in public accomodations and voting registration.

41.8% in 1966 and 26.1% in 1988

Infant mortality rate and life expectancy.

Helped Dr. Marin Luther King found the United Nations and received the Nobel Peach Prize

The Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. Was responsible for coordinating the US Military effort in Iraq in 1991 under the presedency of George H. W. Bush. He became the Secretary of State when George Bush became President.

47% of blacks and 13% whites

69% of whites own their own homes. 44% of blacks own their own homes.

A major candidate for the Democratic nomination. African American and ran for President 3 or 4 times but never won.

Estimates that at least 2 million people are subjected to some form of housing descrimination each year.

First woman Secretary of State

US Senate in November of 2000

First female Speaker of the House in 2006

First female to be appointed to the US Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1991.

First female US Attorney General

First female US Security Advisor. Became Secretary of State when Colin Powell.

The transport of some students to school out of their neighborhood in order to de-segregate the schools.

Segregation in fact but not by Law

To eliminate segregation

Introducing varying subjects from different races. Desegregation efforts to cease being segregated

State and Local Laws that enforce segregation by race.

The hiring and promotion of women and members of minorities so that they take an even amount of men, women and different races.

Opponents argued that Affirmative Action leads to Reverse Descrimination

The movement out of a neighborhood as other minorities are moving in.

In favor of Affirmative Action

Against Affirmative Action

About 4 million Africans came to the US with the slave trade.

They realized that they were being sent far away and there was often violence prior to leaving. These uprising were often easily put down.

Packed alot of slaves in small areas that they had on ships

Packed a small amount of people on ships

There was not much ventilation and little to no sanitation. Slaves might die on the ship of suffocation or disease. Bodies were packed so tightly that it would not be uncommon to find a slaves body completely covered in lice.

A couple days before arrival to the "new world" so that they would look good for auction.

No. Due to their smell and possibility of spreading disease.

Smallpox as well as Ophthalmia.

Claustrophobia

Jamestown, VA in 1619.

Maryland. In 1640.

A person who is endebted for 7 to 8 years to pay back for the voyage to the US

Cotton, tobacco, coffee and sugar.

By the labor of slavery

It was expensive. Mostly rich farmers and plantation owners with commercial export oriented operations on the best lands could afford slaves. Operations such as sugar, coffee, cotton and tobacco.