Civil Rights Movement Review

Issued by President Lincoln during the Civil War; freed all slaves in the Confederacy

• 13th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Declaration of Independance

This Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

This Amendment to the Constitution gave black men the right to vote

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

This Amendment to the Constitution grants full citizenship to all people born in the US, including former slaves

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Poll taxes and literacy tests were used to prevent African Americans from ___.

• voting
• going to school
• getting a job
• buying a house

What Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were Constitutional?

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Loving vs. Virginia
• Plessy vs. Fergeson

The outcome of Plessy vs. Ferguson made segregation laws legal in the US. What are these laws known as?

• Black Codes
• Jim Crow laws
• Joe Eagle laws
• Segregation laws

This organization was co-founded by W.E.B. DuBois and used the legal system to challenge unfair laws in court.

• Tuskegee Institute
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

This lawyer for the NAACP helped Linda Brown's father sue the Topeka, Kansa school board. He became the first African American on the Supreme Court.

• Booker T Washington
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Thurgood Marshall

This organization used direct action and led Freedom Rides to desegregate public transportation.

• Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 
• Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)