Civil Rights Movement Review

How was segregation kept in place in the North and South?

• by state militias

• by federal troops

• with the power of laws

• with warnings of violence

How did World War II help lead to the civil rights movement?

• African Americans were given only the most dangerous jobs during the war.

• African Americans were the victims of violence by their countrymen during the war.

• African Americans began asking for their constitutional rights after bravely serving their country.

• African Americans fought alongside white soldiers and wanted to be able to live alongside them at home.

Which group formed as a result of lunch counter sit-ins?

• SCLC

• SNCC

• CORE

• NAACP

How did Martin Luther King Jr. think that African Americans could achieve true freedom?

• by having the right to vote

• by exercising the right to protest

• by establishing good local schools

• by having equal economic opportunities

Which statements accurately describe Malcolm X? Choose the three correct answers.

• He was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr.

• He was once arrested for leading a lunch counter sit-in.

• He visited Selma, Alabama, while Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed there.

• He once believed that there was no point in fighting for civil rights.

• He was a member of the Nation of Islam.

Identify the order in which the events happened. Write letters in the correct order.

A. African Americans were granted citizenship.

B. African American men were given the right to vote.

C. Enslaved people in the southern states were freed.

D. U.S. government troops were taken out of the South.

E. Enslaved people outside of the southern states were freed.

How were Booker T. Washington’s and W. E. B. Du Bois’s ideas about segregation different?

• Booker T. Washington thought African Americans should accept segregation and W.E.B. DuBois believed African Americans should demand equality.

• W.E.B. DuBois thought African Americans should accept segregation and Booker T. Washington believed African Americans should demand equality.

• They both believed African Americans should accept segregation.

• They both believed African Americans should fight for equality.

Why do some people oppose affirmative action?

• Some people disagree with affirmative action because they think it might not be fair to everyone. They believe it should be only based on abilities and not because of their background.

• No one opposes affirmative action.

How do civil rights for all make a democracy strong?

What was the primary outcome of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?

• It upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine.

• It declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

• It mandated the desegregation of all public facilities.

• It ruled that segregation in public transportation was illegal.

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