Civil Rights Test Review

This classroom is most likely the direct result of -

• Oral Faubus protesting desegregation at Little Rock High School

• Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball

• The Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education

• Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• 14th Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Freedom Rides

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Black Panthers distinguished themselves as a civil rights group that -

• used the court system to bring change to America

• used hunger strikes to bring awareness to the issues facing minorities

• used nonviolence to engage leaders in Congress

• used force if necessary to protect and defend themselves

Match each voting rights amendment or law to the year it was enacted.

1870

• B. Fifteenth Amendment prohibits denying voting rights based on race

• C. Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage

• A. Federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting

Match each voting rights amendment or law to the year it was enacted.

1920

• B. Fifteenth Amendment prohibits denying voting rights based on race

• C. Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage

• A. Federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting

Match each voting rights amendment or law to the year it was enacted.

1965

• B. Fifteenth Amendment prohibits denying voting rights based on race

• C. Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage

• A. Federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting

This photograph is most closely associated with which of the following events?

• March on Washington

• Freedom Rides

• Little Rock High School Crisis

• Brown v. Board of Education ruling

President Eisenhower was forced to issue this statement after -

• the March on Washington caused violent riots throughout the nation

• Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech captivated the nation

• Orval Faubus refused to desegregate schools in his state

• Congress voted to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education

Which of the following best completes this diagram?

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Jackie Robinson

• Shirley Chisholm

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat setting in motion -

• the Plessy v. Ferguson court case

• a bus boycott

• sit-ins at segregated restaurants

• the breaking of the color barrier in baseball