Civil Rights Movement Legislation

The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits national and state governments from __________.

• allowing slavery

• monitoring elections

• collecting poll taxes

• preventing discrimination

The Brown decision officially ended the racial and legal doctrine of "__________."

• separate but equal

• due process of law

• indentured servitude

• freedom of expression

What Supreme Court case was reversed by the Brown decision?

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Marbury v. Madison

President ___ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Johnson

• Nixon

What was the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• segregation was legal

• segregation was illegal

• "due process" was upheld

• "freedom of speech" was not valid

What policy did "Jim Crow" laws put in place?

• Black Codes

• Integration

• Segregation

• Due Process

The desegregation of the U.S. military took place as a result of which of these?

• Military custom

• Supreme Court decision

• Congressional legislation

• Executive Order

Which Executive Order was signed by President Truman that officially desegregated the military?

• 9981

• 8802

• 9066

• 8804

The __________ Act of 1965 gave the federal government authority to monitor and oversee elections in Southern states or those with a pattern of voting discrimination.

• Freedom

• Civil Rights

• Voting Rights

• Reconstruction

The ________ of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

• Civil Rights Act

• The Voting Rights Act

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson