Modern Day SOL Review

Which term best completes this diagram?

• Reconstruction

• Enrollment

• Desegregation

• Disenfranchisement

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s strategy during the Civil Rights Movement emphasized -

• challenging discrimination through the courts

• organizing non-violent mass protests

• promoting self-help through education

• creating a political coalition with organized labor

Which of these events best completes this diagram?

• Brown v. Board of Education Decision

• Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Bakke v. the California Board of Regents Decision

Read the following passage and select the best answer.

So the registrar [at the circuit clerk's office] gave me the sixteenth section of the Constitution of Mississippi. He pointed it out in the book and told me to look at it and ... interpret what I had read. That was impossible. I had tried to give it, but I didn't even know what it meant, much less to

interpret it. -Fannie Lou Hamer

This practice was outlawed with the passage of the -

• 15th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 19th Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Which president signed the 1965 legislation that made these changes possible?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard M. Nixon

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Harry S. Truman

Which regions are the source of most recent immigration to the United States?

• Asia and Latin America

• Asia and Southern Europe

• Western Europe and Africa

• Latin America and Africa

Immigration Push Factors - things that cause a person to leave a country and move elsewhere

One push factor for many United States immigrants is that their native country has a -

• lack of family connections

• diverse religious history

• lack of employment opportunities

• quality education system

In which area did this conflict occur?

• Persian Gulf

• Former Yugoslavia

• Indochinese Peninsula

• Afghanistan border

"To deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for the purposes."

This excerpt describes the purpose of the -

• United Nations Participation Act

• Interstate Commerce Commission

• Patriot Act

• Strategic Defense Initiative

President Bush met with his national security advisers and with leading members of Congress. He also telephoned the leaders of Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, China, and Russia as the first steps toward building an international coalition against terrorism. 
- State Department records, September 21, 2001

Which type of action is described by this quotation?

• Diplomatic relations

• Independent investigations

• Economic sanctions

• Strategic attacks