Unit 7 SS8H10, 11, & 12 Review

The cartoon seen here made reference to what Supreme Court decision?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Regents of the Univ. of California v. Bakke

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education addressed the issue of

• Affirmative Action.

• segregation.

• school funding.

• voting rights.

The decision in King v. Chapman, et al (1945) was key in ending which of these in Georgia?

• discrimination

• the "Jim Crow" era

• racism

• the "White Primary"

On his first day in office in 1962, Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., ordered all "white" and "colored" signs removed from city hall. Later, he gave the city's black policemen the authority to arrest whites and he hired the city's first black firefighters.- from "Ivan Allen, Jr." in the New Georgia Encyclopedia

Based on this information, what conclusion can you make about Mayor Allen?

• He became the city's first African American mayor.

• He was the mayor of a mostly African American city.

• He challenged the policies of segregation in Atlanta.

• He was often at odds with Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lester Maddox took opposition to the federal government after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. Which action describes how he took action against the progression of the Civil Rights Movement?

• He posted signs around his town protesting integration and made speeches on television.

• He closed his restaurant because he refused to serve blacks after integration was passed.

• He became a state senator and worked to block any bills granting equality to blacks.

• He refused to send his children to the same school as black children after schools integrated.

In 1920, the state of Georgia contained approximately 310,000 farms. By 2001, there were less than 50,000 farms in the entire state. Which of these is a reasonable conclusion based on the information in the prompt?

• Georgia gets most of its agricultural goods from countries like Japan and Vietnam.

• Universities no longer have programs involving agriculture, so fewer people farm.

• The use of more technology in farming has decreased the need for having many smaller farms.

• People are eating less, so there is not as great of a need for farms in Georgia.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were undermined by all of the following EXCEPT

• Jim Crow Laws.

• Plessy v. Ferguson.

• Brown v. Board of Education.

• literacy tests.

Why is Atlanta's longest serving mayor, William Berry Hartsfield, known as Atlanta's "father of aviation"?

• He was a colleague of airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.

• He developed the C5 mass transport airplane for Georgia's Lockheed Aeronautical plant.

• He was an accomplished pilot who began Delta airlines.

• He believed that an airport for Atlanta would be a key to the city's economic prosperity.

How did the county unit system support segregation?

• It encouraged the practice of buying votes.

• It allowed urban counties to decide whether to enforce segregation or not.

• It permitted only white males to run for public office.

• It gave rural counties, which were more conservative, more representation.

Eugene Talmadge was MOST LIKELY elected as Georgia's governor for a final time in 1946 because he

• vowed to enforce Jim Crow laws and keep Georgia segregated.

• he hoped to block all of Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies in Georgia.

• believed the state’s white colleges should lose their accreditation.

• wanted to get rid of the corruption inside the state government.