What form of protest did leaders like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. advocate throughout the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 60s?

The “Freedom Rides” tested the enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation where?

Which US president officially desegregated the military?

Which was not a common form of slave resistance?

What was “the Great Society”?

Most Northerners supported a war against the South to preserve the union but not to end slavery.

Reflection: Thinking back on what you’ve learned during this course, choose the two or three historical figures whose stories you found most interesting. Describe who they were, why you think they were important, what you found most interesting about them, and what we can learn from their lives today.

What term describes Nixon and Kissinger’s approach to dealing with the Soviets, and literally means an “unstretching” or easing of tensions?

Which of the following is not true of the concentration of slave populations in the South before the Civil War?

What common method of enforcement of slave regulations was “an adaptation of the militia” in which free white men were expected to serve for a set period of time?