Civil Rights Movement Test

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty

What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

• Guzman V. School

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Miranda V. Arizona

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

• Dolores Huerta

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ceaser Chavez

During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Little Rock Nine

• Atomic Bombs

• Flying Tigers

This Amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Laws created after Reconstruction to enforce segragation in public places -

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Pigeon Laws

• KKK Code

U.S. Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the U.S. - created the "seperate but equal" principle.

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Hernanadez V. Texas

• Miranda V. Arizona

Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote