Civil Rights Quiz

This amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Which amendment to the US Constitution prohibited the state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race?"

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Jim Crow Laws included __________________

• separate schools, restaurants and bathrooms 
• poll taxes 
• literacy tests in order to vote 
• All of the above 

Which amendment to the US Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States?

• Civil Rights Act of 1981

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision that

• was a forerunner of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• established free public elementary and secondary schools in the United States for children of all races

• declared racially segregated public schools inherently unequal

• provided for federal support of parochial schools

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s successfully eliminated

• legal segregation

• rural poverty

• discrimination in hiring practices

• substandard housing

The Black Power movement of the late 1960s advocated that African Americans

• organize political parties sympathetic to communism

• seek the racial integration of northeastern cities

• assimilate into White society

• establish control of their political and economic life

The Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s was characterized by which of the following?

• The establishment of the Back to Africa movement

• A growing split between those who advocated nonviolence and those who favored more aggressive tactics to achieve civil rights

• A sharp drop in participation and interest in voter registration drives and other equal-access efforts in the rural South

• Widespread support by southern Whites who had initially resisted the movement

In the early 1960s, Malcolm X challenged the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Civil Rights movement by arguing that

• African Americans must defend themselves against racism by using violence if necessary

• nonviolent protest could succeed only when African American and White activists cooperated

• African Americans should develop economic and cultural ties with African nations

• court litigation was a more effective strategy to gain civil rights than were sit-ins or mass protest rallies

Students staged a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 to protest

• poverty in the South

• cutbacks in student aid

• segregation of public facilities

• the oppression of women