US History: Civil Rights Review

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave black women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It gave all blacks the right to vote

What did the president do for the Little Rock 9?

• He bought all of their textbooks.

• He drove them to school each day.

• He sent US soldiers to escort them to school each day.

• He bought them lunch at a lunch counter.

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal

Which of the following best describes the 1957 events at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• Governor Faubus resisted the school’s integration with National Guard troops, and President Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce integration.

• President Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to resist the school’s integration, but Governor Faubus obtained a court order to dismiss them.

• President Eisenhower and Governor Faubus worked together to make the integration process run as smoothly as possible.

Why were the Little Rock Nine unable to attend Central High School on September 4, 1957?

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower had sent U.S. Army troops to the school.
• The governor of Arkansas had ordered troops from the state's National Guard to stop them.
• An angry mob prevented the students from entering the building
• The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.

The outcome of the Birmingham Campaign (during which Bull Connor sent local police to use force against non-violent protesters) was:

• City leaders agreed to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham.

• Federal troops were sent in to restore order

• The activists in Birmingham abandoned non-violent strategies

• MLK was assassinated

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (final of the major 3) forbid discrimination in :

• housing

• schools

• employment

• public accomodations

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)...

• Was organized by activists posing as students.

• Was actually a militant group

• Focused its activities entirely on school integration

• Was a group of students who helped organize protests, boycotts, and voter registration.

All of the following were used to stop African Americans from voting EXCEPT:

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• Jim Crow Laws

• dispatching federal agents

What organization was formed in reaction to the arrest of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Their purpose was to coordinate protest activities across the South. The first President of this organization was Martin Luther King Jr.

• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

• SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

• SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)