WorksheetsCivil Rights Exam Review 2022
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
During the Reconstruction period, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified. What did these amendments address?
Rights for women
Readmission of states to the Union
Rights for former slaves
Presidential impeachment proceedings
What is one example of a way that "separate but equal" as described in the excerpt affected Americans during the first half of the twentieth century?
Minorities were not allowed to attend schools with whites.
Poll taxes in federal elections were ruled unconstitutional.
Affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional.
Minorities were not allowed to join the military.
Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised for African Americans?
The temperance movement
The passage of Jim Crow laws
The passage of antitrust legislation
The conservation movement
How did the event in this newspaper headline effect the Civil Rights Movement?
The focus of the movement shifted to helping migrant workers
The movement lost credibility with the American public.
The focus of the movement shifted to protesting involvement in the Vietnam war.
The movement lost an important national leader
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was most associated with what?
Members armed themselves and were willing to take necessary means to protect their homes and families
Leaders worked with existing laws to petition the rights of African Americans
Members worked closely with media companies like NBC and CBS to promote their messages
Leaders enforced the use of nonviolence among those engaging in sit-ins and other protest activities
The Black Panthers were most associated with what?
Members armed themselves and were willing to take necessary means to protect their homes and families
Leaders worked with existing laws to petition the rights of African Americans
Members worked closely with media companies like NBC and CBS to promote their messages
Leaders enforced the use of nonviolence among those engaging in sit-ins and other protest activities
How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 contribute to the changes shown in this table?
It helped reduce voter discrimination at polling sites
It increased state revenues associated with poll taxes
It contributed to increased involvement of lobbyists in political campaigns.
It helped voters determine educational policy based on literacy test results.
In this article, who is being awarded?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Barbara Jordan
How did the nineteenth Amendment expand the democratic process?
By prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of race
By eliminating the poll tax
By prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of gender
By lowering the voting age
What constitutional amendment protects freedom of speech and religion?
the first amendment
the fifth amendment
the eighth amendment
The sixth amendment
What constitutional amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches by the government
the eleventh amendment
the eighth amendment
the twelfth amendment
the fourth amendment
What 2 constitutional amendments fill in the missing spaces?
Fifth Amendment and Eighth Amendment
Third Amendment and Seventh Amendment
First Amendment and Fourth Amendment
Second Amendment and Sixth Amendment
What organization did W.E.B Du Bois found?
The Black Star Steamship Line
The Jim Crow organization
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The Black Panthers
Which action is prohibited under provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972?
A principal refuses to organize athletic events and programs for female sports teams.
The funding for a music program is cut because of declining tax revenues.
A teacher attempts to organize a charity basketball game for faculty and students.
The staffing for a foreign language class is reduced due to lack of interest.
Which of the following is the best example of a civic responsibility?
Writing an political piece for a newspaper
Volunteering to sell raffle tickets for a county fair
Voting in a federal election
Opening a business
Which caption best replaces the question mark in the Image?
Abolish the Poll Tax and the Literacy Test
Demand the Direct Election of Senators
Come in and Learn Why Women should be able to Vote
Lower the Voting Age for Women to Eighteen
Which of the following is an achievement of the Civil Rights movement?
F.
H.
G.
J.
What was the Purpose of the Executive Order that established Affirmative Action?
To expand protections in hiring decisions
To guarantee a minimum wage for employees
To provide corporate tax cuts to companies
To provide on-the-job training for new workers
What is important about this mural in San Diego, California?
It is representative of artistic expressions of the Beat Generation.
It was commissioned by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
It is an example of cultural pride among Mexican Americans.
It was painted by artists employed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
In 1924, what did the Federal Government do to expand the rights of Native Americans?
Providing retirement benefits for native communities
Granting citizenship to American Indians
Establishing private schools for American Indian children
Guaranteeing jobs for Native Americans in urban areas
How did this Supreme Court decision affect judicial interpretations of the Constitution?
By expanding equal protection rights
By eliminating due process protections
By limiting free expression
By expanding the right of religious freedom
How have these groups helped shape U.S History?
By fighting against child labor in the United States
By supporting strict immigration quotas and policies
By focusing on expanding civil rights for minorities in the United States
By lobbying against equal pay for equal work
What Constitutional right was violated by Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066
Freedom of speech
Right to equal protection
Right to bear arms
Freedom of religion
Which way for achieving civil rights is most associated with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement?
Using peaceful protests and acts of civil disobedience
Obtaining signatures to petition for a referendum
Pursuing litigation through the court system
Recalling officials in special elections
How were these rights addressing suffrage achieved?
By granting citizenship to immigrants
By passing antitrust and antimonopoly legislation
By ratifying new constitutional amendments
By engaging in an international conflict
Photographs showing a group of Chiricahua apache students on their first day of school at the Carlisle Indian School. What was the purpose of this school?
restore U.S. citizenship to American Indians
encourage the study of American Indian religious practices
protect American Indians from nativist policies
assimilate American Indians into U.S. culture
What did the federal Government do to address the injustice shown in this photograph?
Enforced the Wisconsin v. Yoder decision protecting First Amendment rights of Amish Americans
Established the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to promote voting rights
Passed new civil rights legislation banning segregation in public places
Issued an executive order prohibiting limits on interstate migration and travel
The items listed here also contributed to what?
African American architects created the Neoclassical style based on Roman and Greek models.
African American painters of the Hudson River School focused on the beauty of nature.
African American artists and writers celebrated their culture in a movement called the Harlem Renaissance
African American musicians developed rock and roll music based on African rhythms and beats.
What is one way the Civil Rights Movement, including civil rights legislation, impacted the United States?
By leading to the passage of antitrust laws
By increasing the globalization of the country's economy
By leading to the creation of a national health care system
By increasing diversity in the workplace
What is the Meaning of Inalienable rights?
Rights that cannot be taken away or denied
Rights that change over time
Rights that only governments can provide
Rights that cannot be defined and protected
listed here are some of the achievements of the civil rights activist and politician, Marcus Garvey. How did he MOST impact African American's during the early 20th century?
By ending school segregation
By encouraging blacks to accept low-paying jobs and social inequality
By promoting black cultural pride and economic independence
By supporting the use of violence
As part of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s, What was the PRIMARY goal of school walkouts?
To end the use of poll taxes for voting
To support the passage of a minimum wage law
To protest the rising cost of college education
To raise awareness of insufficient educational opportunities
In what ways have these groups influenced the culture of the United States?
By supporting government funding of the arts and sciences
By supporting the implementation of social reforms
By supporting increased environmental protections
By supporting the development of free trade practices
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP used the legal system and court cases to challenge _________ African Americans.
discrimination against
integration of
preferential treatment of
accusations of disloyalty against
Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests and poll taxes that had disqualified many voters.
Brown vs. the Board of Education
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Roe Vs. Wade
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The most significant legal change after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. the Board of Education was:
Linda Brown was able to go to the University of Alabama.
Segregation on public transportation was outlawed.
Membership in the KKK escalated violence in retaliation.
The end to legal public school segregation based on the principle of separate but equal schools
