Chapter 4 Lesson 4

Civil Rights Act of 1964- outlawed discrimination toward African Americans

• true

• false

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on gender, religion, and national origin

• true

• false

Southern states used poll taxes and literacy tests to keep African Americans from voting.

• true

• false

Racial profiling happens when marketing companies gather information online about you

• true

• false

Affirmative action has been overwhelmingly supported by the American people.

• true

• false

The Chicano Movement was formed by Mexican Americans to fight segregation in the Southwest.

• true

• false

In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court

• established the standard of “separate but equal.”

• ruled that segregation in public schools is against the Constitution

Which of the following helped bring an end to segregation on public buses?

• the Montgomery bus boycott

• “Jim Crow” laws

The “Freedom Rides” were held to do which of the following?

• allow African Americans to vote in federal elections

• end segregation in bus stations in the South

In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King, Jr., expressed his hope for

• an end to poverty.

• racial equality