2023 Civil Rights STAAR Review

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society pograms were focused on

• Increasing taxes

• Privatizing education

• Expanding voting rights

• Fighting social inequality

Overturned by Brown v. Board of Education, the 'separate but equal' precedent was originally set by this "messy" case.

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

Dolores Huerta is perhaps most known for

• Armed resistance protests

• Securing better working conditions for farmers

• Fighting against public segregation against farmworkers

• Seizing corporate farmland to protest discrimination against farmworkers

The nineteenth amendment and the civil rights act of 1965 are both similar in that they addresed

• judicial review

• poll taxes and literacy tests

• suffrage rights for minority groups

• lowering the voting age

Which practice was eliminated with the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Providing proof of employment

• Proving property ownership

• Passing literacy tests

• Taking religious tests

How did President Eisenhower repond to the Little Rock Crisis?

• Sending soldiers to Arkansas to enforce desegregation

• Closing schools in Arkansas until desegregation was achieved

• Declaring school segregation to be a state-level decision

• By firing public school teachers who supported segregation

African-Americans were first granted to right to vote due to

• Nativist policies

• Ratification of the 15th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Social Darwinism

How did the Black Panther Party's tactics differ from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s?

• The Black Panther Party focused attention only on issues in the South

• The Black Panther Party believed in achieved equal voting rights for all

• The Black Panther Party advocated militant action

• The Black Panther party worked willingly with governmetn officials

Prior to Brown v. Board of Education integrating schools nationwide, what other case integrated schools in California

• Mendez v. Wesminster

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Delgado v. Bastrop

• Miranda v. Arizona

How did MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech affect US politics?

• By increasing pressure on political leaders to form new minority-based political parties

• By persuading political leaders to introduce literacy tests for voting

• By persuading political leaders to ratify an amendment that extends voting rights to women

• By increasing pressure on political leaders to pass federal civil rights legislation