I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.

In what year was this speech delivered?

• 1863

• 1963

• 2003

• 1983

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Where was this speech delivered?

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• Washington, DC

• Nashville

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What was Martin Luther King's primary occupation?

• Protestor

• Congressman

• Preacher

• Agitator

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How many years is "Five score years"?

• 30

• 50

• 80

• 100

What does Dr. King say black Americans in 1963 were still not free from?

• Segregation and discrimination

• Slavery and servitude

• Prosperity and oppression

• Freedom and justice

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What did Dr. King mean when he said "the Negro ... finds himself an exile in his own land"?

• They are not treated as citizens and are excluded from prosperity

• They are not permitted to live in some states

• They are not permitted to own land

• They are being forced to live on islands off the coast

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What did Dr. King say about the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

• They were magnificent words

• They were purposefully against black Americans

• They needed to be abolished and rewritten

• They were a product of white privilege

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Why does Dr. King say the architects of our republic "were signing a promissory note"?

• They were guaranteeing all men, black & white, the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Future Americans would owe the founding fathers for giving them such a great nation

• Founding a new nation is costly and every American will owe taxes

• The architects of our republic needed to borrow money to start the new nation

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Why does Dr. King compare the nation to a debtor who won't pay his debts?

• America had defaulted on the promise of those unalienable rights to black Americans

• America had promised slavery reparations and never paid them

• The nation needed to pay salaries to slaves who were never paid by their masters

• Black Americans had fought for the South but were never paid by the Confederacy

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What did Dr. King say that black Americans were due?

• The riches of freedom and the security of justice

• $1,000 for every year they had been enslaved

• 40 acres of land and a home to live in

• A job working for the government

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