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Lynchings and other forms of mob violence against African-Americans occurred only in the South.

What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society?

What group of northerners often scapegoated free black laborers for their diminishing economic prospects and sought revenge through mob violence?

What African-American educator was born into slavery but went on to found the Tuskegee Institute and became a vocal opponent of segregation and Jim Crow?

What radical organization praised and promoted violence, referred to the police as “pigs” and the US as “Babylon,” and caused enough fear and paranoia to be targeted by the FBI?

Which emerging political ideology, founded on the principles of John Locke  and other Enlightenment thinkers, advocated equality before the law, government based on consent, and individual economic freedoms as the best way to protect individual rights?

What event caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany, beginning World War II?

African-American women largely stayed out of the feminist movement of the late 1960s and 70s.

Which president signed the law establishing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a national holiday in 1983?

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