Civil Rights Quiz #1

Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Integration
• Conflagration
• Confederation
• Segregation

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• Keep public facilities cleaner

• keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

• keep the races pure

• keep African-Americans from voting

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which amendment granted African American males ( no females) the right to vote?

• 15th

• 19th

• 1st

• 14th

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women
• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

How did the ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson relate to the 14th amendment?

• It said that separate but equal was unfair

• It created laws that separated blacks and whites.

• It created laws that desegregated blacks and whites forever

• It created laws to unify America

How did the ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson relate to the 14th amendment?

• It said that separate but equal was unfair

• It created laws that separated blacks and whites.

• It created laws that desegregated blacks and whites forever

• It created laws to unify America