Civil Rights Exam 2019-20

How did President Eisenhower react to the information in this passage?

• sending federal troops to enforce integration

• asking the Supreme Court to speed up racial integration

• allowing the people of Arkansas to resolve the problem

• forcing the governor of Arkansas to resign

Choose the best example of civil disobedience.

• conducting sit-ins at restaurants in the South

• passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• lobbying Congress to eliminate the poll tax

• attending a political rally in Iowa

What was the main outcome of the events in these headlines?

• The growth of insurance and welfare programs for elderly citizens

• The growth of radical political parties on the East Coast

• The expansion of political and economic opportunities for minority citizens

• The expansion of economic cooperation between northern and southern states

What was the main goal of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s?

• create separate African American economic and social institutions

• eliminate legal segregation from American life

• establish affirmative action programs to compensate for past wrongs

• form a new nation for African Americans

Who is most closely associated with the reform movement pictured in this photograph?

• Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute

• Martin Luther King Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Huey Newton of the Black Panthers

• Malcolm X of the Black Muslims

What did the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson do?

• created a legal justification for segregation laws

• affirmed the legality of federal regulation of state elections

• established a legal remedy for victims of discrimination

• recognized public protests as a legal form of civil disobedience

In the Little Rock Crisis what role did Orval Faubus play?

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

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

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

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

What was the principal goal of the activity described above?

• expand voting rights for African Americans

• achieve racial integration of public facilities

• encourage change through violent means

• force the president to send military troops into the South

In the 1900s Booker T. Washington supported moderate strategy for gaining civil rights while W.E.B Dubois called for a more aggressive approach to the civil rights movement. What two activists had similar differences in the 1960s?

• Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks and Marcus Garvey

• Barbara Jordan and Alice Walker

• Medgar Evers and Thurgood Marshall

In 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina African-American students refused to leave a "whites only" counter, what strategy were they using?

• hunger strike

• civil disobedience

• economic boycott

• petition drive