Civil Rights Review (2021-2022)

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans
• It segregated buses in America
•  It made Rosa Parks lots of money
• It helped de-segregate buses in America

What are Civil Rights?

• Rights that only some citizens get
• Rights that all citizens get
•  Rights that are civil
• Rights that are controlled by the president

This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion. 

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act
• 15th  Amendment
• Civil Rights Movement

What previous Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board overturn?

• Worcester v. Georgia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Marbury v. Madison

Law that eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests in elections

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?

• Korematsu v US
• Brown v Ferguson
• Brown v Board of Ed
• Plessy v Ferguson

The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution states

• all citizens have the right to vote
• slavery is illegal
• all people born in the US are US citizens
• no other amendments can be added to the Constitution

Freedoms that every person should have are

• segregation
• hero
• civil rights
• minister

Protesters rode buses to protest segregation in train/bus stations, the bus trips were called:

• segregation

• freedom rides

• boycott

• integration rides