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2022 Civil Rights Test Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was murdered by 2 white men for talking "inappropriately" to a white woman in Mississippi?

a)

Medgar Evers

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Emmett Till

d)

James Farmer

2.

Which principal of the Constitution establishes that the U.S. is run by representatives in government?

a)

free enterprise

b)

federalism

c)

division of powers

d)

republicanism

3.

WHat was the point of this proposed WW II march on Washington that was stopped because FDR responded toA. Phillip Randolph?

a)

End segregation on railroads

b)

End segregation in defense industry companies

c)

End segregation on interstate busses

d)

End segregation in public facilities

4.

 What/who convinces the U.S. government to strengthen the U.S. navy?

a)

The Spanish American War

b)

Alfred T. Mahan's book "The influence of Seapower Upon World History"

c)

Unrestricted submarine warfare

d)

The overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani for control of Hawaii

5.

What frees the slaves in the USA?

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Homestead Act

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Thirteenth Amendment

6.

Who felt the U.S. needed to make the world safe for democracy at the start of the Great War?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Franklin Roosevelt

d)

Winston Churchill

7.

The idea that it is illegal to deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude comes from....

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

15th Amendment

c)

24th Amendment

d)

The Populist movement

8.

Poll taxes are made unconstitutional by....

a)

the 9th Amendment

b)

The Missouri Compromise

c)

The 24th Amendment

d)

the 16th Amendment

9.

The sit-in movement should be linked with what civil rights group?

a)

NAACP

b)

CORE

c)

SCLC

d)

SNCC

10.

What is the important accomplishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

a)

Ends Segregated Schools

b)

Ends the Grandfather Clause

c)

Ends segregation in all public facilities

d)

Creates the Fair Housing Law

11.

Why is the 1963 March on Washington significant?

a)

It shuts down the government

b)

It leads to the passage of anti-Jim Crow legislation

c)

It leads to horrible rioting

d)

It leads to President Kennedy being voted out of office

12.

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?

a)

register federal election voters

b)

force interstate bus desegregation

c)

force local bus desegregation

d)

desegregate restaurants

13.

Who was chief attorney of the NAACP and the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

a)

Medgar Evers

b)

Ralph Abernathy

c)

Jesse Jackson

d)

Thurgood Marshall

14.

What happened after Malcolm X took his pilgrimage to Mecca?

a)

He became Imam of Nation of Islam

b)

He was assassinated by Nation of Islam

c)

He was lynched by the KKK

d)

He allied Nation of Islam with the Black Panthers

15.

What brought about the order that all public schools in the U.S. be desegregated?

a)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Sweat v Painter

c)

Brown v Board

d)

Plessy v Ferguson

16.

Whose action led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

Elizabeth Eckford

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Ralph Abernathy

17.

This trial highlighted the dichotomy of the 1920's by pitting fundamentalism against science.

a)

Schenck v USA

b)

Scopes Monkey Trial

c)

Korematsu v USA

d)

Tinker vs Des Moines

18.

The leading reason for the Great Migration, aside from a desire to escape Jim Crow laws of the south, was.....

a)

The Spanish American War

b)

Available factory jobs in the north

c)

Land through the Homestead Act

d)

The Dust Bowl

19.

What had to be replaced because it created a central government so weak it couldn't even impose taxes to fund the federal government?

a)

The Bill of Rights

b)

The Mayflower Compact

c)

The Articles of Confederation

d)

The Dawes Plan

20.

Which of the following are key figures of the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

John Scopes and Clarence Darrow

b)

Albert Fall and Warren Harding

c)

Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes

d)

Georgia OKeefe and Al Jolson

21.

What created the FDIC to help stabilize the U.S. banking industry?

a)

The Works Progress Administration

b)

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

c)

The Federal Reserve Act

d)

The Securities and Exchange Commission

22.

Which of the "five that survive" included flood control, electrical production, and the creation of jobs?

a)

SSA

b)

FDIC

c)

TVA

d)

SEC

e)

FHA

23.

Which of these was a form of teenage rebellion against conformity and control?

a)

Gospel music

b)

Country and Western music

c)

Big band jazz

d)

Rock and Roll music

24.

In what year was the Brown v Board ruling issued?

a)

1896

b)

1954

c)

1955

d)

1957

25.

What movement emerged because of frustration with the slow progress of the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Back to Africa

b)

SNCC

c)

The Children's March

d)

Black Power

26.

African American students integrating Central High School in Little Rock were given protection by whom from which president?

a)

The National Guard by President Truman

b)

The State Police by President Eisenhower

c)

Federal troop by President Eisenhower

d)

Federal troop by President Kennedy

27.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in the African American Civil Right movement because of...

a)

The Birmingham March

b)

The March on Washington

c)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

The desegregation of Central High School

28.

What satisfy Southern justices and get a unanimous ruling in Brown v Board of Education, Chief Justice Earl Warren had to...

a)

Add the term "with all deliberate speed" to the ruling

b)

Declare a specific hard deadline for desegregation

c)

Limit the ruling to apply to only high schools and universities

d)

Grandfather some states to exemption

29.

With whom did MLK share the concept of nonviolent protest?

a)

Huey P. Newton

b)

Mohandas Gandhi

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

WEB DuBois

30.

What specifies individual rights in the U.S.?

a)

The Articles of Confederation

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

THe Northwest Ordinance

d)

Manifest Destiny

31.

Which of these prohibited segregation in public places?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

14th Amendment

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

The Interstate Bussing Act

32.

Which of the following freed the slaves?

a)

The Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

The Missouri Compromise

d)

The 13th Amendment

33.

What strategy best resulted in favorable government action in the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Violent outbreaks that caused destruction

b)

Non-violent protests

c)

African Americans assuming control of Congress

d)

Blackmail and extortion

34.

What group chipped away at Plessey v Ferguson after WW II?

a)

CORE

b)

SCLC

c)

Black Panthers

d)

NAACP

35.

Which of the following correctly categorizes segregation by law?

a)

debris

b)

de jure

c)

detente

d)

de facto

36.

Which of the following events in NOT from the Civil Rights movement?

a)

Montgomery bus boycott

b)

Lunch counter sit-ins

c)

Silent Spring

d)

Freedom Summer

37.

What status had MLK Jr reached by 1963?

a)

Symbol of the Civil Rights movement

b)

An American social outcast

c)

Hated high profile criminal

d)

Federal Circuit Court Justice

38.

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" served what purpose?

a)

A call to battle white violence

b)

A call to embrace non-violent protest

c)

To call attention to inhumane conditions in prison

d)

To expound on the real liberties found in the U.S.

39.

At what point was there a decision to divide Germany post WW II?

a)

The Atlantic Charter

b)

Yalta Conference

c)

United Nations Charter convention

d)

The Versailles Treaty

40.

The Sweat v. Painter decision required the African American, Herman Sweat, be allowed to attend the previously segregated UT law school. This provided a precedent for what later landmark court case?

a)

Plessey v Ferguson

b)

Schenck v US

c)

Brown v Board of Education

d)

Delgado v Bastrop ISD