social studies

“No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” — Section 2, Voting Rights Act of 1965

 The specific goal stated in this section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to

• establish voter qualifications to vote such as literacy tests

• expand the use of property qualifications to vote

• stop fraudulent voting in large cities

• remove barriers to voting based on racial background

What was the major effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• Racial discrimination in public facilities was banned

• Citizenship and voting rights were extended to Native American Indians.

• Busing to integrate schools was authorized.

• The use of poll taxes and literacy tests for voting were outlawed.

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was ‘well timed’ in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. . . . We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’ We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.” Martin Luther King, Jr., African American leader, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963

In noting that he had “yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was ‘well timed,’” Martin Luther King, Jr., was most likely arguing against

• African American activists who asserted that King’s tactics were taking too long to produce results.

• White Americans who argued that African Americans should be more patient and that civil rights should not be brought about by civil disobedience tactics.

• Civil Rights activists who believed that more thought should be given to the precise timing of boycotts, demonstrations, and direct actions

• Environmental activists who believed that the struggle for more effective conservation measures should take precedence over the Civil Rights movement.

What can be interpreted by the quote from Malcolm X in the picture?

• He believed in more confrontational forms of fighting discrimination

• He and MLK Jr. were not friends

• He supported the SNCC

• He believed in Non-Violence

What does this picture have to do with Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)?

• The National Guard had to protect white students from integration.

• What school integration looked like in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.

• Segregation was still legal as Black students were being removed from schools by President Eisenhower.

• Linda Brown lost her case in 1954.

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense”

This excerpt expanded the rights of those accused of a crime and became law as a result of which court case? 

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Roe v. Wade

The cartoon below best represents what social change issue?

• Minimum Wage 

• Pay Equity

• Women's Suffrage

• Segregation

"The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — "Is this all?" Betty Friedan (1963)

The following excerpt is best represented by 

• Equal Opportunity Act

• The Feminine Mystique

• Equal Rights Amendment

• Pay Equity Initiative

“Wherever I went to speak…I told them about…how we had no benefits, no minimum wage, nothing out in the fields- no restrooms, nothing…I said, “Well! Do you think we should be putting up with this in this modern age?...We can stand up! We can talk back!...This country is very rich, and we want a share of the money those growers make (off) our sweat and our work by exploiting us and our children!” - Jessie Lopez de la Cruz

What group of individuals does this speaker mean when he says ‘we’?

• Women

• Latinos

• African Americans

• Native Americans

What group is best represented by the quote below:

"take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men."

• ERA

• AIM

• NOW

• NPR