PART 1 – MEANING OF WORDS Admonish: warn or reprimand someone firmly Advocate: A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy. Affluent: Having a great deal of money, wealthy Cognizant: having knowledge or being aware of Constructive: serving a useful purpose, tending to build up Engage: occupy, attract, or involve Paradoxical: seemingly absurd or self-contradictory Resentment: Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.

PART 2 – KEY TERMS Sin Tax: A tax on goods such as tobacco and alcohol that pose a danger to people’s health. Progressive Tax: A tax that takes a larger percentage of income from high-income groups than from low-income groups. Regressive Tax: A tax that takes a larger percentage of income from low-income groups than from high-income groups. Proportional Tax: A tax that takes the same percentage of income from all income groups. Horizontal Equity: The concept that people in the same income group should be taxed at the same rate. Vertical Equity: The concept that people in different income groups should pay different rates of taxes or different percentages of their incomes as taxes.

PART 2 – KEY TERMS Executive Order 8802: Created to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. Brown vs. Board of Education: Supreme Court ruling that said separate but equal is unconstitutional. Stokely Carmichael: Chairman of the Student Non- violent Coordinating Committee Alice Walker: Female novelist and poet who also wrote the book The Color Purple.

PART 2 – KEY TERMS Angela Davis: Female Black Power leader Allen Ginsberg: Leading poet of the Beat Generation. Martin Luther King: Leader of the non-violent protest movements in the South. Malcolm X: Civil Rights leader who advocated the right of armed self-defense for blacks and other oppressed groups. Richard Wright: Civil Rights novelist who migrated from Mississippi to Chicago in 1927.

PART 3 – SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS What does Richard Wright’s in 12 Million Black Voices tell you about the experience of moving from the South to the North?  The process felt uncomfortable because of prior experience in the south  Poor working and living conditions to economic class.  North was much different atmosphere and culture than the South.

PART 3 – SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS How did World War I have an influence on African Americans and their migration to the North? Since white men went to Europe to fight, factory jobs opened up in the North because 1)factories produced weapons and materials for the military and 2) the men who worked in the factories were now overseas.

PART 3 – SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS How did Malcolm X attempt to unite African Americans in his “A Message to Grass Roots” speech? Common enemy “Ex-Slave” “You don’t catch hell” suggesting a common experience

PART 3 – SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS In Malcolm X’s “A Message to the Grass Roots,” what was his overall message?  The civil rights movement issues and ineffectiveness due to the following factors:  How whites view the “ex-slave;”  Agreeing on a common enemy;  Lack of violence against whites

PART 3 – SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS In Alice Walker’s “Once,” what did the poem tell you about how African Americans’ view themselves? Proud about body image, sense of pride in the color of the skin Indifferent about race

PART 3 – SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS In Allen Ginsberg’s Poem, “America,” what point was he trying to convey?  Responsibility for “Atom Bomb” and Cold War (line 5)  Capitalist beliefs and ideals  Industrialism  Lack acceptance of anything less than the “American ideal”  America’s lack of personality  America’s religiousness

PART 4 – ESSAY QUESTION Looking for four clear, distinct parts Main Idea Sentence Support Point #1 (1-2 sentences) Support Point #2 (1-2 sentences) Conclusion Sentence Support points must be related but not saying the same thing.

PART 5 – ONE ACT PASSAGE 10 Questions Social Science passage, multiple choice Cannot use highlighters