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Ch 29 America in the Age of Civil Rights

Authored by Teresa Hart

Social Studies

9th - 11th Grade

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Ch 29 America in the Age of Civil Rights
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, activities of the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Urban League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) illustrated that

all civil rights groups use the same tactics

organized differences usually lead to failure

violence is the best tool to achieve social change

different paths can be used to achieve a common goal

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the ability of states to separate races in schools, railroad cars, movie theaters, and public beaches?

Marbury v. Madison

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

Korematsu v. United States

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act

Brown v. Board of Education

Voting Rights Act of 1964

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which constitutional principle was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case?

separation of powers

equal protection of the law

popular sovereignty

separation of church and state

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the major goal of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1960's

obtaining the right to vote for women

guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work

enabling women to stay at home as well as work

laws that would allow women to own property

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the methods advocated by the Black Panthers to achieve their goals differ from those of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

They formed a third political party.

They were passionately anti-Communist.

They restricted their actions to the use of passive resistance.

They considered the use of violence to protect their own communities.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"There are just laws and there are unjust laws.  I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws.  One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.  Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

Based on this statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., which of the following would he think most Americans would be justified in disobeying?

the Fourteenth Amendment

the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Affirmative Action programs

Civil Rights Act

of 1965

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