Assignment task:
Watch the following documentary on the Civil War and Civil Rights in order to answer the questions.
YouTube Video: Amend: The Fight for America | Episode 1 | Netflix
Q1. What is does the 14th Amendment?
Q2. Who teaches Frederick Douglass to read?
Q3. Why doesn't Frederick Douglass feel free once he escapes slavery?
Q4. True or False: Back during slavery, African Americans are considered citizens in the sense of being humans of moral worth and dignity, but weren't citizens in the legal sense.
Q5. True or False: Frederick Douglass believed the Constitution supported slavery.
Q6. What does Frederick Douglass talk about to the 600 people that make an impact?
Q7. What is the outcome of the Dred Scott case?
Q8. What does Lincoln say to a group of African American leaders at the White House during the Civil War?
Q9. How is the Emancipation Proclamation a turning point in the war?
Q10. How do people view African American soldiers when they serve?
Q11. What does Lincoln talk about at the Gettysburg Address?
Q12. How are Douglass and Lincoln similar?
Q13. What happened after Lincoln gave a speech saying Black people should be able to vote?
Q14. Why is it such a bad thing that the new president after Lincoln's death is Andrew Johnson?
Q15. What is Black Code?
Q16. What does John Bingham believe?
Q17. Amendments are extremely difficult to pass, but they are also what?
Q18. The 14th Amendment includes the first time that the word is used in the constitution.
Q19. What do Black people spend a lot of money on after the 14th Amendment was passed?
Q20. What happens in the end to the Scotts and the Taneys and why is this impactful?