US History QUIZ Topic 8 Review

How did the event described by Rosa Parks in this excerpt affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• It changed the way police arrested public protesters.
• It resulted in a bus boycott that lasted more than a year.
• It led to an increase in the number of registered voters in southern states.
• It prompted the government to station the National Guard in southern states.

In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ?

• established a legal remedy for victims of discrimination

• created a legal justification for segregation laws

• affirmed the legality of federal regulation of state elections

• recognized public protests as a legal form of civil disobedience

The name of which civil rights leader best completes the title of the graphic?

• Booker T. Washington
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Stokely Carmichael
• Malcolm X

Whenever normal agencies prove inadequate to the task and it becomes necessary for the Executive Branch of the Federal Government to use its powers and authority . . . the President’s responsibility is inescapable. In accordance with that responsibility, I have today issued an Executive Order directing the use of troops under Federal authority to aid . . . at Little Rock, Arkansas. —President Dwight D. Eisenhower, address from the White House, September 24, 1957

President Eisenhower exercised his federal authority in an effort to —

• ensure the safety of protesters at lunch counter sit-ins

• end the violence directed against the Freedom Riders

• enforce a ruling to desegregate public schools

• protect citizens from rioting spurred by Ku Klux Klan rallies

What role did Arkansas governor Orval Faubus play in the Little Rock Crisis?

• He vetoed legislation to establish a separate school system for whites and blacks.

• He helped minimize race-related violence by establishing integrated advisory groups.

• He refused assistance from the federal government to improve minority graduation rates.

• He challenged the authority of the federal government to desegregate schools.

This confrontation centered around —

• disagreement over the use of taxes to fund public education
•  the refusal of federal courts to hear cases concerning civil rights violations
• the denial of First and Fifth Amendment freedoms by southern state legislatures
• resistance by state and local governments to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling

"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms". —Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954
Which action occurred as a result of the Supreme Court decision excerpted above?
 

• The requirement of equal access to school facilities for disabled students 
• The expansion of science in school curricula 
• The desegregation of public schools
• The implementation of requirements for federal certification of private-school teachers 

Who was most instrumental in the event described in this headline?

• Rosa Parks

• Ella Baker

• Thurgood Marshall

• Medgar Evers

Jackie Robinson first rose to national prominence in the late 1940s when he:

• organized sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters

• enrolled in the racially segregated University of Mississppi

• helped bring an end to racial segregation in Major League Baseball

• participated in the Freedom Rides to desegregate interstate bus terminals

What was the goal of the protests depicted on this map

• To pressure Congress to prohibit discrimination against disabled citizens

• To demonstrate the economic impact of discriminatory practices on interstate transportation

• To challenge the federal government to enforce Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation

• To persuade states to abandon discriminatory voter-registration procedures