Civil Rights Movement Quiz

What issue did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments address?

• women's rights

• readmission of states to the Union

• rights of former slaves

• Presidential impeachment proceedings

Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised?

• The temperance movement

• The passage of Jim Crow laws

• The passage of antitrust legislation

• The conservation movement

In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ...

• established a legal remedy for victims of discrimination

• created justification for segregation laws

• affirmed the regulation of state elections

• recognized public protests as a legal form of civil disobedience

Which of the following contributed to President Truman's desegregation of the U.S. military?

• lack of funding for veteran pensions

• Declining enlistment rates during peacetime

• Discrimination against minority service members

• A desire to repeal the draft

How did the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education affect judicial interpretations of the Constitution?

• By expanding equal protection rights

• By eliminating due process protections

• By limiting free speech

• By expanding the right to religious freedom

How did Rosa Parks act of civil disobedience affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• It changed the way police arrested protesters

• It resulted in a bus boycott that lasted more than a year

• It led to an increase in the number of registered voters in southern states

• It prompted the government to station the National Guard in southern states

Which of the following best characterizes the goals of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• A peaceful separation of Black people into powerful political groups

• A peaceful integration of the races in all areas of society

• Federal compensation to Black people for past legal injustices

• A church-centered Black community removed from the oppression of White people

The Greensboro sit-ins best represent which of the following?

• Filing legal challenges

• Using nonviolence

• Learning self-defense

• Petitioning government officials

Which action occurred as a result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• The requirement of equal access to school facilities for disabled students

• The expansion of science in school curricula

• The requirements for certification of private-school teachers

• The desegregation of public schools

Which of the following later movements held ideas closest to those expressed by Garvey in the excerpt?

• A. Philip Randolph’s organizing of Black railroad workers

• Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP's legal efforts to desegregate schools

• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, efforts to win equal rights for African Americans through civil disobedience

• Malcolm X’s Black nationalism emphasizing racial pride and economic self-sufficiency