Review - The Civil Rights Movement

After the Civil War the United States went through a period know as Reconstruction. During the period, the U.S. government was supposed to...

Choose 3

• Bring the states that left during the war back into the union

• Protect the rights of the former slaves

• Rebuild the southern states after the war

• Punish the soldiers who fought against the United States

• Reconstruct the Constitution

After the Civil War the United States created the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to give rights to the former slaves. What did each of these amendments do?

• 14th Amendment

• -Gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States

  -Guarantees everyone equal protection of the law

  -Prevents the government from taking your life, liberty or property without "due process of law"

• 15th Amendment

• Made slavery illegal except as punishment for a crime.

• 13th Amendment

• Prevents the federal government and states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their race, color, or because they used to be a slave.

The period known as Reconstruction ended when the United States government removed the Federal Troops from the southern states. After the military left, these states started to create ________ that made discrimination against Black Americans legal.

• Segregation

• Equality Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

If Reconstruction had achieved the goal of ______________, then there never would have been a need for a Civil Rights Movement.

• Protecting the rights of the former slaves

• Rebuilding the southern states

• Bring the states that had left during the war back into the Union

The Civil Rights Movement was a time period in U.S. history...

• during the 1860s when the northern states fought a war against the southern states.
• between the late 1940s and 1960s when people began to protest and take actions to end legal forms of segregation and discrimination.

• during the 1950s and 1960s when the Supreme Court began to make segregation legal.
• when slavery was made illegal

In 1896 the United States Supreme Court made segregation ______ in the case of Plessy vs. Ferfuson

• Legal

• Illegal

During the Civil Rights Movement different groups and organizations came up with different ways of _______________ rules and laws that enforced discrimination.

• Supporting
• Protesting
• Approving
• Suing

Why was Homer Plessy arrested?

Choose the best answer?

• He refused to give up his seat on a bus

• He sat in the "Whites Only" section of a train and refused to move

• He was caught shoplifting

• He was caught trespassing

In the Supreme Court ​ (a)   of Plessy v. Ferguson, the court decided that ​ (b)   was legal as long as the separate places were ​ (c)   to each other.

• unequal

• integration
• case
• segregation
• equal
• judge

At the end of World War II, president ___________________ helped partially inspire the Civil Rights Movement by desegregating the army.

• John F. Kennedy
• Harry Truman
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Ulysses S. Grant