Early Civil Rights

What previous Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board overturn?

• Worcester v. Georgia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Marbury v. Madison

Brown v. Board specifically ordered the integration of

• Public schools
• Buses
• The military
• Fire departments

1950 case involving a black man who was excluded from enrolling in University of Texas.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Delgado v. Bastrop

• Sweatt v. Painter

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

More people bought new housing units in 1945-1965 because of assistance offered by the __________________ to soldiers returning from World War II.

• GI Bill
• cultural divide
• suburban
• suburban

What was the name of the American foreign policy that was committed to stopping the spread of communism?

• isolationism
• terrorism
• containment
• neutrality

NASA and emphasis on math and science education are results of the

• influence of Red China

• McCarthy Hearings

• launch of Sputnik by Soviet Union

• Korean War

Which president desegregated the armed services?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy

Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for

• cancer
• colds
• polio
• measles

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment