Answers -- Fun, Facts, and Trivia
June 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.

Students can learn about constitutional provisions related to citizen rights by taking the "Constitutional Freedoms" quiz found on Congress for Kids at: http://www.congressforkids.net/games/billofrights/2_billofrights.htm.

"Separate but Equal Doctrine" Diversion

1. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the Supreme Court decided that this practice was legal in the United States as long as public facilities for blacks and whites were equal. This idea came to be known as "separate but equal." Homer Plessy challenged this practice, better known as…

A) Legal Rights
B) Dissenting Opinion
C) Segregation
D) "Equal Protection Under Law"

2. At first, the southern states used the _____ _____ to limit former slaves' ability to find work and freedom to move off the plantations.

A) Block Grants
B) Black Panther Party
C) Black Codes
D) Reverse Discrimination

3. Under the Jim Crow laws, separation was based on race. Because this separation based on race was backed by law, it was called…

A) de facto segregation
B) deregulation
C) desegregation
D) de jure segregation

Answers to the last issue of Fun, Facts, and Trivia link here: http://www.webcommunicator.org/funfactstrivia0402ans.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 .