Studies Weekly

Services like roads and schools are provided by the ________.

• president

• government

• law

How did Mary McLeod Bethune show education was important to her family?

• she played school with her siblings

• at night she taught her 16 siblings everything she had learned in school

• she decorated her family’s house to look like a school

• she bought a lot of classroom items and gave them to her family members

How did groups of people work together to help the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute?

• People in the community interviewed Mary McLeod Bethune about her school.

• Both African American and white people of the community helped to build the school.

• People in the community attended plays and concerts at the school.

• People in the community created a school carnival to raise money for the school.

What was important about Thurgood Marshall’s case, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?

• it ruled that defendants have the right to an attorney, even if they cannot afford one.

• it ruled that women have the right to vote.

• it ruled that slavery was unconstitutional, or against the Constitution

• it ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional, or against the Constitution.

How did slavery in Florida begin?

• in the 1800s when workers were needed on plantations in north Florida

• after the Civil War ended in 1865

• in the mid 1600s when white settlers treated American Indians and Africans badly

• in 1776 during the Revolutionary War

How did writer Harriet Beecher Stowe help African Americans?

• She wrote about how an African American community was destroyed in a hurricane.

• She wrote about slavery in the south in her book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• She wrote newspapers about what was happening in African American communities.

• She wrote about the court system and how to change unfair laws.

Services like roads and schools are provided by the _________.

• president

• government

• law

What job does the senator and representative have?

• help the mayor

• pick up trash

• make laws

• vote

What is the primary focus of Studies Weekly in the context of Social Studies?

• Science education

• Mathematics education

• Social Studies education

• Physical education

Which historical figure is often highlighted in Studies Weekly for their role in the Civil Rights Movement?

• George Washington

• Rosa Parks

• Albert Einstein

• Amelia Earhart