Test: Civil Rights Era

Name

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) are all associated with which movement?

• emperance
• abolition
• civil rights
• environmentalism

The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was to

• establish a separate political state for African Americans
• gain passage of an equal rights amendment to the constitution
• end segregation based on race
• permit unlimited immigration to the United States

These statements were included in which Supreme Court decision?

• Schenck v. United States (1919)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
• Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995)

After 58 years, the Supreme Court reversed the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and declared that

• accused persons must be read their rights at the time of arrest
• free speech does not extend to shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater
• the doctrine of “separate but equal” is unconstitutional
• prayer in public schools is unconstitutional

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to

• supervise local elections
• enforce school integration
• end a bus boycott
• break up a steel strike

The refusal to use or buy something.

• civil disobedience
• boycott
• strike
• picket

Whose defiance of segregation led to a city bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

• Rosa Parks
• Elizabeth Eckford
• Orval Faubus
• Malcolm X

How did the Montgomery bus boycott achieve its goal?

• It damaged the city's buses.
• It hurt city businesses financially.
• It started riots all over the city.
• People boycotted shops that sold grapes.

Which of these is associated with the nonviolent protests of Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

• seizing public buildings
• practicing civil disobedience
• arming citizen groups
• practicing segregation