Topic 6: Reconstruction and Civil Rights

This law outlawed discriminatory voting practices (literacy tests)

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Reaganomics

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

The Reconstruction/Civil War Amendments were created after the Civil War between the North and the South. What does the word reconstruction mean?

• Tear down

• Take over

• To rebuild

• To destroy

After the 15th Amendment was passed giving freed slaves the right to vote, some states used certain laws to try to prevent them from voting. These were called "Jim Crow" laws. One was a __________ (which is money a voter must pay to be able to vote)

• crime tax

• slave tax

• poll tax

The photograph above illustrates an event in U.S. History. What was Congress' response to the social movement symbolized in the photograph?

• decreased commerce opportunities

• increased economic opportunities

• increased religious opportunities

• decreased military opportunities

Which actions did Southern States take to keep African Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed in the amendment above?

• deny women the right to vote

• pass laws to establish segregated schools

• establish property-holding requirements for voting

• require complicated tests in literacy in order to vote

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

What happened as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the 24^th Amendment?

• Expanded the political and economic opportunities for minorities

• Decreased the political and economic opportunities for minorities

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

The Americans with Disabilities Act, known as the ​ (a)   says ​ (b)   places must remove ​ (c)   and effectively ​ (d)   with people who have hearing, vision, or speech ​ (e)   .

• ADA
• public
• barriers
• communicate
• disabilities