Civil Rights and Great Society (ch 27-28)

Match the following person with the event they spearheaded...

• first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

• Rosa Parks

• Integration in Little Rock H.S.

• Jackie Robinson

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• James Meredith

• Black student who challenged Ole Miss

• Freedom Riders

• civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

• Little Rock Nine

Match the following

• Ended segregation in public schools

• 15th Amendment

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• all persons born or naturalized in U.S. were entitled equal rights

• Brown v. Board of Education

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• 13th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• 14th Amendment

Poll taxes and literacy tests limited which right of African Americans?

• Voting

• Equal Pay

• Education

• Health Insurance

Which term is most associated with Martin Luther King Jr?

• Civil disobedience

• Violent protests

• Black militancy

• Segregation

Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party are associated with ________.

• civil disobedience

• militancy ("by any means necessary")

• cooperation

• political lobbying

The important Civil Rights Act of 1964 calls for __________.

• the end of discrimination in public areas

• the integration of religious and state facilities

• Jim Crows to continue

• None of the above

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited ________.

• any barriers to voting such as literacy tests and poll taxes

• the government to conduct surveillance of polling sites

• voters from seeing early drafts of ballot cards

• poll workers from handing out reference materials to help voters read their ballots

What was the name of President Lyndon Johnson's plan to end poverty in America?

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Square Deal

• New Deal

Check ALL of the following that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped end discrimination/segregation in

• Transportations

• Restaurants

• Voting Rights

• Movie Theaters

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by

• John F. Kennedy (JFK)

• Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

• Richard M. Nixon