Review 3

1. Which of the following is an example of segregation?

Refusing to ride on city bus

Forcing African Americans to attend different schools other than whites

Taking lands from Native Americans

Leading a rally for African American voters

2. Four students went to a Greensboro lunch counter and demanded to be served at a white only lunch counter. What type of protest did they carry out?

Massive resistance

Boycott

Sit in

Freedom Ride

3. Which statement describes the effect of Jim Crow Laws on the people of NC?

These laws required separate public accommodations, such as restrooms and schools, for citizens

The laws made it illegal to possess, manufacture, sell, or transport alcoholic beverages

These laws placed price supports on crops such as tobacco, rice, and cotton

These laws ended slavery and gave the newly freed men the right to vote

4. Poll taxes and literacy tests...

Kept many African Americans from voting

Encouraged civil rights leaders

Helped women to get the right to vote

Were approved by the Supreme Court

5. Marches, sit-ins, and boycotts are examples of...

Civil rights

Massive resistance

Nonviolent forms of protest

Freedom events

6. The 24th Amendment did which of the following?

Gave women the right to vote

Ordered the federal government to return all land back to Native Americans

Helped African Americans gain voting rights by outlawing poll taxes

Ordered schools to provide bilingual education

7. The Civil Rights Act of 1964...

Organized voter drives to bring out the African American vote

Made segregation illegal in the US and forbid unequal treatment

Created a form of nonviolent resistance for the Greensboro sit in

Organized the Freedom Riders

8. What was the main strategy behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

The boycott hoped to convince African American leaders to start their own separate bus companies

The boycott attempted to stir up white community so state leaders would vote to end segregation

The boycott was intended to cost the bus companies so much money that they would voluntarily end segregation

9. Rosa Parks protested the law that...

Prevented African Americans from riding the same buses

Prevented African Americans from riding city buses

Refused African Americans the right to attend school with white students

Required African Americans and whites to sit in separate sections of city buses

10. What was the main concept of the ruling of Plessy v. Fergsuon in 1896?

Separate but equal

Equality for all

Equality in education

Freedom for all

11. What did some Americans conclude about race relations after the violence in Selma Alabama in 1965?

They were aware of the violence and were still undecided what to do about civil rights

Both and A and C

12. What was the main purpose of the Jim Crow Laws in the South?

Segregation of public places

Integration of public places

Punishment of the South for Civil War

None of the above

13. On Feb. 1, 1960, four college students sat down at a "white only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They asked to be served and were refused. These students used the "sit-in" as a non-violent action against racial segregation. Images of the sit-ins spread through tv and newspapers nationwide. Which statement reflects the influence on the civil rights movement of citizen action in Greensboro, NC?

Sit-ins failed to gain support, and lunch counters remained segregated

Sit-ins spread to other cities, helping to desegregate public facilities

Sit-ins, which were not supported by national civil rights leaders, slowed progress for desegregation

Sit-ins gained national support, but little action was taken by state governments to improve civil rights

14. Freedom Summer was an effort to...

Invite women into the workforce and find jobs

Help Native Americans find work and better careers

Help African American voters in Southern states

Minorities in NC

15. The event known as the "Little Rock Nine" - African American students were admitted to Central High School in Arkansas after...

The nine students held a sit in at the high school

Parents protested and took case to the local school board

President Eisenhower sent in National Guard troops in order to provide safe passage for students into the school

MLK protested the actions of the school

16. How did the Greensboro 4 impact the Civil Rights Movement?

Sit ins were eventually staged throughout the South helping to break up the Jim Crow Laws

Brought national attention to discrimination in the South

All of the Above

17. Which of the following best explains the impact of desegregation on North Carolina and the United States?

It led to the expansion of individual civil rights and increased social tensions

It led to the end of the Civil Rights Movement

It led to economic opportunities for all social groups

It led to the decline in political opportunities for all types of Americans

18. What was the main purpose of the March on Washington?

Protest for better jobs and rights

Protest for better education for all

Meeting of all the leaders of the movement and he gave a speech there

None of the above

19. Which of the following would not be considered a "barrier breaker" for equality in the Civil Rights Era"?

Orval Faubus

Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.

20. What was the decision of Swann v. Mecklenburg Board of Education?

Forced the Jim Crow Laws to break up in NC schools in 1951

Busing students to all white schools was illegal

Busing students to African American schools was illegal

21. The purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was?

Prevent housing discrimination

Segregation of public places

Removed barriers for voting

Provided funds for welfare

22. After WWII, the Holocaust had drawn world wide attention to what horrors?

Racism

Segregation

Massive resistance

Violent protests

23. Which of the following helped the American poor during the Civil Rights Movement?

Montgomery Bus Boycott

24th Amendment

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Murder case of Emmett Till

24. What event began the Civil Rights Movement?

Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955

Brown v. Board of Education ruling by Supreme Court which began integration of US schools

Jim Crow laws passed in the South

Freedom Summer

25. Martin Luther King Jr. gained national attention during what key event?

March on Washington

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case

Greensboro Sit in