Civil Rights Review 2025

What was the name given to many of the discriminatory laws that opposed the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

Answer explanation

The discriminatory laws that opposed the Reconstruction Amendments are known as Jim Crow Laws. These laws enforced racial segregation and disenfranchised African Americans, directly countering the protections intended by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

The effectiveness of ​ (a)   was greatly hurt by various voter suppression and ​ (b)   such as poll taxes and literacy tests.

• 15th Amendment

• Jim Crow laws

• 19th amendment

• antitrust acts

Answer explanation

The effectiveness of the 15th Amendment was undermined by Jim Crow laws, which enforced voter suppression through measures like poll taxes and literacy tests, limiting access to voting for African Americans.

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

Answer explanation

Literacy tests and poll taxes were discriminatory practices used in the South to disenfranchise African Americans, effectively preventing them from voting and participating in the democratic process.

The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution states

• all citizens have the right to vote

• slavery is illegal

• all people born in the US are US citizens

• no other amendments can be added to the Constitution

Answer explanation

The 15th Amendment guarantees that the right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, ensuring all citizens have the right to vote.

Match the following terms and their definitions

• separation of racial groups

• abolished

• to refuse to buy, use or participate in something as a form of protest

• segregation

• another word for law

• boycott

• to end or destroy

• legislation

• to be equal

• equality

Match the following reconstruction amendments as rights for former slaves

• promising equal protection of the law

• 15th amendment

• abolishing slavery

• 14th amendment

• granting suffrage for African American men

• 13th amendment

Civil Rights legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed which issue in the photo?

Civil Rights legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed which issue in the photo?

Civil Rights legislation such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 addressed which issue in the photo?

What in this photo might be a source of pride for Mexican Americans?