Johnson's Great Society, affirmative action programs, and Title IX were all designed to -

Provide states a way to assist citizens

Reduce spending to cut the deficit

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides, organized by CORE and SNCC? Select TWO correct answers.

To challenge segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals

To test the enforcement of Supreme Court rulings on desegregation

To protest segregated lunch counters and city bus routes in the South

To transport marchers to a voting rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama

To boycott segregated public schools by refusing to ride school buses

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, what became a major focus of the Civil Rights Movement?

Expanding the focus beyond legal equality to address economic and social disparities

Promoting economic cooperation between northern and southern states

The complete separation of Black school children from mainstream educational institutions

The top focus became cultural expression and the identity of Black Americans represented through the arts

Which of the following best described differences in the goals of Hector P. Garcia and Cesar Chavez to expand rights for Mexican Americans?

Garcia focused on benefits for veterans, and Chavez focused on organizing farm workers into a union

Chavez wanted to settle a personal score, and Garcia's goal was to unionize farm workers

Both leaders focused on civil disobedience, but Garcia's approach was more peaceful than Chavez's

Garcia's G.I. Forum ended in the 1950s while Chavez's United Farm Workers union still exists

This list presents the work of a civil rights advocate. Which accomplishment correctly completes the list?

Negotiated to secure better working conditions and wages for farmworkers

Organized armed resistance to protest police brutality against farmworkers

Filed a federal lawsuit to fight segregation against farmworkers in public facilities

Seized corporate farmland to rally support for overturning immigration laws

The National Organization for Women is best known for working toward the -

Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

Passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

Study the image, and answer the question that follows. Why were people like those shown in this image hopeful about their future?

There were many jobs and business opportunities in America.

Nativism and Social Darwinism were expanding in American cities.

The U.S. social security system provided financial and medical benefits.

American cities had large and comfortable tenement apartment buildings.

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced vast industrial growth. A new class of wealthy entrepreneurs and a prosperous middle class emerged. Factory jobs also increased to meet production demands. Which demographic change in the United States is most associated with this transformation?

Increased migration to urban areas

Increased property values in rural areas

Increased life expectancies in urban areas

Increased birth rates in rural areas

The process described above led to -

The displacement of Native Americans from their lands

Expanded trade with the nations of Europe

The rapid industrialization of southern states

Massive overcrowding in major cities in the Northeast

The timeline of achievements illustrates Ida B. Well's contributions as -

An artist of the Harlem Renaissance

In response to public concern over issues raised by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle , the federal government expanded its role in -

Taking responsibility for the safety of consumers

Working with labor unions to increase worker salaries

Settling limits on the growth of private industry

Implementing social welfare programs

During the Progressive Era, many state and local governments adopted the initiative, referendum, and recall. Together these procedures -

Gave citizens a more direct voice in government

Extended the right to vote to 18-year-old citizens

Let registered voters select each state's Presidential electors

Allowed a state's residents to bring lawsuits against another state

The Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed in an effort to -

Maintain competition in business

Promote the formation of new trusts

Limit the activities of foreign corporations

Which factor most significantly increased the level of destruction and loss of life in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005?

The failure of levees designed to protect low-lying areas of the city

The hurricane's unusually long duration over land

The lack of federal weather forecasting technology

The immediate evacuation of most city residents

During the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panther Party's tactics differed from those of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., because the Black Panthers called for -

the use of armed resistance if necessary

the use of the court system to gain equality

respecting government authority

enduring injustice through religious faith

A high school teacher wrote these bullet points on the whiteboard. What was the most likely topic of discussion?

Reasons for immigration to the United States

Goals of U.S. assimilation policies

Objectives of the Grange movement

Which of the following contributed to President Truman's decision to issue this order?

Discrimination against minority service members

A lack of funding for veteran pensions

Declining enlistment rates during peacetime

In the World War II era, what was the major reason for Jewish immigration to the United States?

To escape state-sponsored genocide

To seek guaranteed universal suffrage

To escape famine and drought caused by natural disaster

To seek better educational opportunities

Which situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?

The fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants

The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest

The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest

The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which civil rights leader does the list below describe?
Supported non-violent civil disobedience
Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Council
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Cesar Chavez

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. DuBois

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
—Declaration of Independence

What is the meaning of unalienable rights?

Rights that change over time

Rights that cannot be taken away or denied

Rights that only governments can provide

Rights that cannot be defined and protected

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Jim Crow laws in southern states were designed to -

Protect the interests of southern plantation owners against northern capitalists who wanted to monopolize the cotton industry

Promote the interests of small farmers over the interests of industrialists during the Gilded Age

Keep formerly enslaved persons from participating in politics to preserve the pre-Civil War lifestyle of the South

Establish government regulations on cotton monopolies that were forcing poor farmers to sell their land and become dependent workers

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the university...

How did the decision in this 1950 case benefit minorities?

By setting a precedent for Brown v. Board of Education

By reinforcing the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

By giving state governments the power to create colleges

By allowing for the creation of religious schools

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Prior to 1955, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) used a strategy of -

Refusing to pay taxes to protest against segregation

Litigation and lobbying attempts to fight for equality

Civil disobedience to fight against segregation

Sit-ins and marches to protest against Jim Crow laws

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

After 1955, a new wave of African American civil rights leaders employed a combined strategy of direct action and nonviolent resistance known as -

Disenfranchisement

Targeted refusal

Civil disobedience

Enablement

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The name of which civil rights leader best completes the title of the graphic?

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stokely Carmichael

Malcolm X

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US FINAL 2026

Which civil rights leader does the list below describe?Supported non-violent civil disobedienceLeader of the Southern Christian Leadership CouncilWinner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Jim Crow laws in southern states were designed to -

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the university...How did the decision in this 1950 case benefit minorities?

Prior to 1955, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) used a strategy of -

After 1955, a new wave of African American civil rights leaders employed a combined strategy of direct action and nonviolent resistance known as -

The name of which civil rights leader best completes the title of the graphic?

Johnson's Great Society, affirmative action programs, and Title IX were all designed to -

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides, organized by CORE and SNCC?Select TWO correct answers.

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, what became a major focus of the Civil Rights Movement?

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Which civil rights leader does the list below describe?
Supported non-violent civil disobedience
Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Council
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the university...

How did the decision in this 1950 case benefit minorities?

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides, organized by CORE and SNCC?

Select TWO correct answers.