2022 Civil Rights Test Review

Who was murdered by 2 white men for talking "inappropriately" to a white woman in Mississippi?

• Medgar Evers

• Stokely Carmichael

• Emmett Till

• James Farmer

Which principal of the Constitution establishes that the U.S. is run by representatives in government?

• free enterprise

• federalism

• division of powers

• republicanism

WHat was the point of this proposed WW II march on Washington that was stopped because FDR responded toA. Phillip Randolph?

• End segregation on railroads

• End segregation in defense industry companies

• End segregation on interstate busses

• End segregation in public facilities

 What/who convinces the U.S. government to strengthen the U.S. navy?

• The Spanish American War

• Alfred T. Mahan's book "The influence of Seapower Upon World History"

• Unrestricted submarine warfare

• The overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani for control of Hawaii

What frees the slaves in the USA?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Thirteenth Amendment

Who felt the U.S. needed to make the world safe for democracy at the start of the Great War?

• Woodrow Wilson

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Winston Churchill

The idea that it is illegal to deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude comes from....

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 15th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• The Populist movement

Poll taxes are made unconstitutional by....

• the 9th Amendment

• The Missouri Compromise

• The 24th Amendment

• the 16th Amendment

The sit-in movement should be linked with what civil rights group?

• NAACP

• CORE

• SCLC

• SNCC

What is the important accomplishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• Ends Segregated Schools

• Ends the Grandfather Clause

• Ends segregation in all public facilities

• Creates the Fair Housing Law