Civil Rights Lecture 1 Quiz

This Amendment outlawed slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment made African Americans citizens guaranteed equal protection under the law -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Laws created after Reconstruction to enforce segragation in public places -

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Pigeon Laws

• KKK Code

U.S. Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the U.S. - created the "seperate but equal" principle.

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Hernanadez V. Texas

• Miranda V. Arizona

A case in which the Court held that the 14th Amendment prohibited the University of Texas from rejecting applicants soley on the basis of race -

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Hernandez V. Texas

Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

Helped establish the precedent that "seperate but equal" education and other services was not equal at all -

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Hernandez V. Texas

Thurgood Marshall was famous for being the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and....

• Assassinating JFK
• Organizing the March on Washington
• Winning the Brown v. the Board of Education case
• Giving African-Americans the right to vote

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal after a couple of days of boycotting
• Segregation on buses became illegal after months of boycotting
• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat