Civil Rights Test Review

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

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 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

• Freedom Rides
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• March from  Selma to Montgomery

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How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans
• It segregated buses in America
•  It made Rosa Parks lots of money
• It helped de-segregate buses in America

 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

• Violent protests
• Really loud protests
• Non-violent protests
• Violence  when needed protests

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 Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.

•  Atlanta, GA
• Montgomery, AL
• Washington, D.C. 
• Savannah, GA

Which of the following means to end a policy of racial segregation

• minorities

• desegregate

• discrimination

• integrate

What court case in 1896 lead to the "separate but equal" laws. Where African Americans were kept separate from whites?

• Brown vs Education

• Roe vs Wade

• Supreme Court

• Plessy Vs Ferguson

What does President Dwight Eisenhower’s response to events at Little Rock High School (1957) show?

• unconstitutional federal supremacy clause of the Constitution is

• rarely enforced states have been successful in defying federal law

• Supreme Court has often declared presidential actions

• president may use troops to enforce federal decisions

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

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