Answers -- Fun, Facts, and Trivia
April 2002 Issue

The Dirksen Center wants to help teachers teach better by giving them the opportunity to use technology to create, customize, and share online learning activities in their classrooms. The Center wants to help students learn more by bringing educational resources together in one place that provide new ways to learn about Congress interactively.

The Supreme Court ruled that slaves must remain slaves even though they resided in a free state in the 1857 Dred Scott decision. To learn more about the Fourteenth Amendment and the rest of the Amendments made so far to the Constitution, visit our Congress for Kids Web site -- http://www.congressforkids.net. Print the scrambler found at -- http://www.congressforkids.net/games/amendments/1_scramble.htm -- and match the Amendment number with its definition. Once you're finished, click "Play More" and find 10 more activities that teach about the Amendments.

Civil Queries and Keys

1. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the central leader of a civil rights group called the…

A. Black Muslims
B. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
C. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
D. Black Panthers
E. Luthern Synod

2. True or False: Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in 1863.
Answer: False -- (Thirteenth Amendment)

Answers to March's issue of Fun, Facts, and Trivia link here: http://www.webcommunicator.org/funfactstrivia0302ans.htm.

Do you have or know of an online activity you would like The Dirksen Congressional Center to feature on its new Web site for students -- Congress for Kids? The Center is currently seeking online activities that provide new ways to learn about Congress and the workings of the federal government interactively.

If you have questions or suggestions for online activities, contact Cindy Koeppel .