The Civil Rights Movement

Which action designed to oppose a political or business policy is closest to the approach used by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• a war protester accepting a jail term rather than registering for the draft

• a union picketer assaulting a strikebreaker

• a government employee resisting arrest for failure to pay income taxes

• dissatisfied workers destroying machinery in their factory

Which generalization can most accurately be drawn from a study of Supreme Court cases Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education?

• The Supreme Court has issued consistent decisions in cases involving rights of the accused

• Supreme Court decisions are accepted without public controversy

• The Justices believe that social issues are best left for state courts to decide

• The Supreme Court has helped to determine public policy

The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s was to

• establish a separate political state for African Americans

• gain passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• end segregation based on race

• permit unlimited immigration to the United States

When necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King, Jr., urge his followers to employ?

• using violence to bring about political change

• engaging in civil disobedience

• leaving any community in which racism is practiced

• demanding that Congress pay reparations to African Americans

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1957 school integration crisis, he was exercising his constitutional power as

• Chief Legislator

• Commander-in-Chief

• Chief Diplomat

• Head of State

"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

-Brown v. Board of Education

The effect of this Supreme Court ruling was to

• establish affirmative action programs in higher education

• require the integration of public schools

• desegregate the armed forces and the military academies

• force states to spend an equal amount on each public school student

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct

• racial and gender discrimination

• limitations on freedom of speech

• unfair immigration quotas

• asegregation in the armed forces

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington, D.C., 1963

Using the passage above, which step was taken following this speech to advance the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• desegregation of the Armed Forces

• ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

• elimination of the Ku Klux Klan

• passage of new civil rights acts

The changes shown in the chart were most directly the result of the

• enactment of voting-reform laws by these southern states

• Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education

• passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• executive branch’s resistance to protecting the civil rights of minorities

The poll tax, the literacy test, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of

• the 14th and 15th amendments

• the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education

• the Supreme Court's decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson

• immigration laws such as the Gentleman’s Agreement and the Chinese Exclusion Act