Civil Rights review

What is the best description of Civil Rights?

• activities protected by all governments

• freedoms protected by the US Consitution

• freedoms given by the Declaration of Independence

• unlimited freedoms, given by State and Federal governments

Which of the following is NOT guaranteed to American citizens?

• right to challenge the federal government

• right to hold religious beliefs

• right to be free from cruel & unusual punishment

• right to freely travel overseas

The desire to expand Civil Rights in the 1950's was due to what reason?

• rights written in the Constitution were not being allowed to be practiced

• people of different ethnic groups were not being paid the same as their white co-workers

• state governments encouraged minority groups to stand up for themselves

• big business companies had diminished voting power of minority groups

How did Rosa Parks and MLK, Jr FIRST become nationally recognized leaders in the Civil Rights movement?

• leading a walk to Selma, AL

• giving a speech in Washington, DC

• they were both jailed in Birmingham, AL

• trying to desegregate buses in Montgomery, AL

Which of the following would most likely have been challenged as violating civil rights?

• having desegregated sections of a restaurant

• segregation on public buses

• an Asian-American begin fired for poor job performance

• a women being denied a job, just because she is a woman

What Consitutional amendment was legally challenged during the civil rights movement?

• 1st amendment- free exercise clause

• 14th amendment- equal protection clause

• 8th amendment- cruel & unusual protection clause

• 26th amendment- voting rights

Which of the following required people to pay before they could vote?

• literacy tests

• poll tax

• grandfather clause

• voter registration

Which of the following is used today, and is legal, before someone can vote?

• literacy tests

• poll tax

• grandfather clause

• voter registration

The Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court case ruled segregation was LEGAL as long as what was to happen?

• facilities were equal in quality

• it was only between blacks and whites

• it received approval from the Governor of that State

• it only happened in the South

Protests against segregation and lack of voting rights were all the following EXCEPT

• boycotts

• marches

• appealing to the court systems

• broadcasting messages on local t.v stations