Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 8:  Modern America
Page 8 - 13 and 8 - 14   Map - Civil Rights Hot Spots
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Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of  8 -13.)
 
Topeka -  ...segregated public schools...
Montgomery -  ...successful bus boycott...
Little Rock -  ...set soldiers to...
Greensboro -  ...and white, to...
Jackson -  ...summer in jail.
Birmingham -  ...police dogs and...
Washington -   "...a Dream" speech.
Selma -  ...of support for...
New York -  ...was killed by...
New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago -  ...a Southern issue.


The Picture:
 
   Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.  His leadership of the Civil Rights movement showed America the way to move past racism and segregation.
   Rev. King was assassinated in 1968 during a visit to Memphis in support of a strike by that city's garbage workers.
Tips for completing the map:

   Students should work from the finished map shown on the Internet support site or from our overhead transparency map collection.  Emphasize neatness from the beginning! 

   Ask students to label the states highlighted on the map first.  A sharp red color pencil will work since the letters are fairly large, but a # 2 pencil is O.K.  (A red ink pen is good, but a mistake can't be erased, of course.)  Be sure to point out that Michigan spans two areas of land.

   Next, have students shade the states highlighted on the map with a yellow color pencil.  

   As you review the main events of the Civil Rights movement, be sure to have students to refer to the map frequently.  Many students are very fuzzy about areas outside their own region.
 
 
 

Don't forget to check our Recommended Videos list for good titles to use with this section.  There is a link to the list from the main Teacher Support Page.

 
Reminder:  Students and teachers can also view the map shown below in the Maps section of the Internet support site.  A set of overhead transparencies of the completed maps is available at a modest price.

 

 
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