Civil Rights - President/Congress

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

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

Brown v. Board specifically ordered the integration of

• Public schools
• Buses
• The military
• Fire departments

Which president desegregated the armed services?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism

Which government action was intended to ensure that African Americans could exercise their 15th Amendment rights?

• The Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter

• The executive order to desegregate the US Army

• The passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

What role did Arkansas governor Orval Faubus play in Little Rock?

• He vetoed legislation to establish a separate school system for whites and blacks

• He challenged the authority of the federal government to desegregate schools

• He helped minimize race-related violence by establishing integrated advisory groups

• He refused assistance from the federal government to improve minority graduation rates

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

• voting
• serving in the military
• moving north
• getting an education

Where did President Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne to enforce integration of a public high school?

• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Birmingham, Alabama
• Jackson, Mississippi

Lyndon Johnson's plan for improving America was called the

• New Frontier

• Fair Deal

• Great Society

• New Deal