Civil Rights Quiz 1

Cesar Chavez organized boycotts in the 1960s, to call attention to the economic conditions of ​ (a)  

• migrant workers.
• farmers.
• auto workers.
• miners.

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Select all of the following (3) methods that African Americans CONSISTENTLY employed to gain civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s. 25

• boycotts

• marches

• hunger strikes

• mass petitions/protests

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Match each U.S. Supreme Court case with its decision and impact.

Move the answers to the correct boxes.

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(a) Plessy v. Ferguson

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(b) Brown v. Board of Education

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(c) Hernandez v. Texas

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(d) Wisconsin v. Yoder

• set the precedent for "separate but equal"

• ruled that the 14th amendment protects all races and ethnicities

• protexted the 1st Amendment freedom of religion

• overturned a previous Supreme Court ruling on the 14th amendment (segregation)

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Why did the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Plessy v. Ferguson in the Brown v. Board of Education case?

Select TWO correct answers.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson violated the protections under the 1st Amendment.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson violated the protections under the 5th Amendment.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the states do not have constitutional rights to facilitate public education.

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Which of the following was a result of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?

• affirmative action programs were implemented

• sports teams were federally funded

• public schools were racially integrated

• private universities were denied government financing

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What was one way the decision described in this passage affected the United States in the first half of the twentieth century?

• Minorities were not allowed to attend schools with whites.

• Poll taxes in federal elections were ruled unconstitutional.

• Affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional.

• Minorities were not allowed to join the military.

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The ruling in Miranda v. Arizona most affected the procedure in which step of this process?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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Explain the decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education AND give an example of its impact on civil rights.

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