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Civil Rights-April 2021

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 1hrs 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

TRUE or FALSE------State Department spokesperson Ned Price recently declared on April 1, 2021, "The culture of Arab Americans will be honored this month, with the designation by the State Department of Arab American Heritage Month, reflecting the group's contributions to the US "are as old as America itself."

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

2.

In 1968, she defeated the former leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to become the first African American woman to serve in the US Congress. Name her.

a)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

b)

Anita Hill

c)

Barbara Jordan

d)

Shirley Chisholm

e)

Rosa Parks

3.

She published her first autobiography, Unbought and Unbossed in 1970. Her second autobiography, The Good Fight published in 1973, described her 1972 campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination-----during which she received little support from white women's organization or Black men. Name her.

a)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

b)

Anita Hill

c)

Barbara Jordan

d)

Shirley Chisholm

e)

Rosa Parks

4.

TRUE or FALSE---In Cambodia in 1969-1970, the United States dropped more bombs than in had on all of Asia in World War II.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

5.

TRUE or FALSE May 1970 American university campus protests against the Vietnam War, at Ohio's Kent State University and Mississippi's Jackson State University, led to the killing of 6 college students.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

6.

The Democratic Party candidate for President in 1968 was...

a)

Senator Robert F. Kennedy

b)

Senator Eugene McCarthy

c)

Vice President Hubert Humphrey

d)

former Governor George Wallace

e)

President Lyndon B. Johnson

7.

Which of the following policies did President Richard M. Nixon pursue once elected?

a)

escalated the war in Vietnam

b)

supported the Equal Rights Amendment

c)

created the Environmental Protection Agency

d)

pursued a "southern strategy" that realigned the Republican Party with the white southern backlash to civil rights and weakened the New Deal coalition

e)

proposed the Family Assistance Plan (FAP)---killed by Senate conservatives

8.

In 1969 lead by community support off-campus, and meaningful activism by the Black Student Union on-campus, this university became the first in America with a Black Studies department. Name the university.

a)

UCLA

b)

USC-- University of Southern California

c)

USC--University of South Carolina

d)

Gators of San Francisco State University

e)

Gators of The University of Florida

9.

Before he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" as Muhammad Ali, this fighter won 1960 Olympic Gold in Rome with the US boxing team under another name. What was his name?

a)

Floyd Patterson

b)

Sonny Liston

c)

Cassius Clay

d)

George Foreman

e)

Larry Holmes

10.

TRUE or FALSE--In the mid-1960s, Black Americans made up 50 percent of the US armed forces.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

11.

Urban riots in the late 1960s undercut social and political support for President Johnson's federal program to attack poverty and the problems faced by poor Americans. What name was President Johnson's program known by

a)

"Welfare"

b)

"The Great Society"

c)

"One Small Step for Mankind"

d)

"Vietnamization"

e)

"Operation Overlord"

12.

TRUE or FALSE---According to the text, the cornerstone of President Johnson's War of Poverty was the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

It was raining and it had been all the day. Fact, it had been raining for some weeks, a steady, big drop kind of rain that had roads all slopped up outside and ceilings all swollen up and leaking inside." Who is credited with these words in Mississippi Bridge

a)

Lillian Jean

b)

Pa

c)

Jeremy

d)

Mr. John Wallace

e)

Rudine

14.

What was the name of the river that was crossed in the story, Mississippi Bridge?

a)

Mighty Mississippi

b)

Po

c)

Natchez Trace

d)

Lumberin' Charlie

e)

Rosa Lee

15.

Although Miz Hattie was invited to try on the fine hat in Pa's store, who wanted to try it on, but was denied the opportunity?

a)

Rudine

b)

Jeremy

c)

Miz Hattie

d)

Grace-Anne

e)

Big Ma

16.

Which one of the following characters WAS NOT a member of the Logan family?

a)

Casey

b)

Jeremy

c)

Stacey

d)

Christopher-John

e)

Little Man

17.

Who was waiting for the Logan children to deliver milk?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Miz Hattie

c)

Miz Georgia

d)

Big Ma

e)

Mr. John Wallace

18.

Dramatically describing unsuccessful attempts to revive George Floyd in the ambulance, who said yesterday in the trial associated with the Floyd, "He's a human being, and I was trying to give him a second chance at life.' Name this witness.

a)

Derek Smith

b)

Genevieve Hansen

c)

Derek Chauvin

d)

David Pleoger

e)

Jena Scurry

19.

Who is currently on trial in Minneapolis for the murder of George Floyd?

a)

Derek Smith

b)

Genevieve Hansen

c)

Derek Chauvin

d)

David Ploeger

e)

Jena Scurry

20.

From the list below, select any/any items that the Minneapolis Police Department includes in its standards and practices of professional policing.

a)

provide name and badge number when requested, preferably in writing or on a business card

b)

explain and/or apologize if you determine that the reasonable suspicion was unfounded (e.g. after an investigatory stop)

c)

be courteous, respectful, polite, and professional

d)

if asked, provide the procedures for filing a complaint about police service or conduct

e)

ensure that the length of any detention is no longer than necessary to take appropriate action for the known or suspected offense

21.

TRUE or FALSE: The Constitution contains two due process clauses: the 5th Amendment and the 14th Amendment. According to the text it is impossible to define the two due process guarantees in exact and complete terms

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

22.

According to the text, The Supreme Court has consistently and purposefully relied on finding the meaning of due process on a case-by-case basis.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

23.

The SCOTUS first described the case-by-case approach of defining due process in 1878 as "the gradual process of inclusion and exclusion, as the case presented for decision shall require." What was the name 1878 SCOTUS that provides this description?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Sweat v. Painter

c)

Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada

d)

McCain-Feingold

e)

Davidson v. New Orleans

24.

This form of due process has to do with the HOW (the procedures, the methods) of governmental action.

a)

procedural due process

b)

transactional due process

c)

temporal due process

d)

substantive due process

25.

This form of due process involves the WHAT (the substance, the policies) of governmental action.

a)

procedural due process

b)

transactional due process

c)

temporal due process

d)

substantive due process

26.

Which SCOTUS case did the textbook use as an example of procedural due process?

a)

Davidson v. New Orleans (1898)

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

c)

Rochin v. California (1952)

d)

Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1922)

27.

Which SCOTUS case did the textbook use as an example of substantive due process?

a)

Davidson v. New Orleans (1898)

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

c)

Rochin v. California (1952)

d)

Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1922)

28.

NAME the power of the government to take private property for public use.

a)

caveat emptor

b)

eminent domain

c)

Magna Carta

d)

e pluribus unum

29.

According to the text, what prevented Joseph and Barbara Jones from buying property in a Missouri neighborhood.

a)

money

b)

discrimination

c)

hunger

d)

fun