**civil Rights, Immigration, And Nativism
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This quiz helps prepare students for the California U. S. History STAR test. It covers Civil Rights, immigration, and nativism.
- 1.An important effect of the Fourteenth Amendment was that
- A.
Racial discrimination ended in the South.
- B.
The federal government became the ultimate protector of individual rights.
- C.
African-Americans gained the right to vote.
- D.
Slavery ended.
- 2.The Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson ruling on separate but equal treatment
- A.
Required southern governments not to discriminate in state employment.
- B.
Entrenched the system of segregation and Jim Crow laws that the South had developed after Reconstruction ended.
- C.
Allowed the South to provide either separate facilities or no facilities to African-Americans compared to facilities provided for use by whites.
- D.
Outlawed separate facilities for African-Americans, saying separate was inherently unequal.
- 3.President Harry Truman’s action that advanced the civil rights of African-Americans was
- A.
Announcing the Truman Doctrine on protecting European countries from communist takeover.
- B.
Ending segregation in federal employment.
- C.
Ending segregation in the military.
- D.
Abolishing the death penalty.
- 4.How were James Farmer and Martin Luther King similar?
- A.
They both believed that there were times when violence in the civil rights fight was necessary
- B.
Both secretly agreed with much of Malcolm X’s preaching.
- C.
Both were assassinated.
- D.
They both believed in staying nonviolent in their fight for civil rights.
- 5.The goal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to
- A.
Increase support for the Vietnam War.
- B.
Register more voters all over the country.
- C.
Make voting a matter of federal rather than state law.
- D.
Increase the black vote.
- 6.Which of the following Civil Rights organizations adopted the use of force?
- A.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- B.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- C.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- D.
Black Panthers
- 7.The United Farm Workers had difficulty gaining national recognition because
- A.
People were racist against Mexicans.
- B.
The landowners/growers signed deals with other unions to represent the workers.
- C.
There was an anti-union movement at the time.
- D.
They didn’t have much power to vote because of being immigrant non-citizens.
- 8.Growing anti-Catholic sentiment in the first half of the twentieth century related to increased immigration from
- A.
Northern Europe.
- B.
Asia.
- C.
Latin America.
- D.
Southern and eastern Europe.
- 9.One reason many Americans joined the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was
- A.
Opposition to Prohibition.
- B.
Resentment over the large numbers of new immigrants.
- C.
Objections to women obtaining the right to vote.
- D.
The desire for isolation from world affairs.
- 10.Nativist support for the Immigration Act of 1924 led to the Act’s
- A.
Lifting of the ban on Chinese immigration.
- B.
Lifting of the ban on Japanese immigration.
- C.
Restrictions on immigration by Latin Americans.
- D.
Establishment of a quota system for immigration from areas other than the western hemisphere.
- 11.What did large California farm owners hope to gain by encouraging immigration from Mexico in the last half of the 20th century?
- A.
A plentiful source of labor
- B.
More voters who would side with them in elections
- C.
People with strong farm management experience that could improve the farms
- D.
Members to support a bigger farm workers union
- 12.Most immigration in the last half of the 20th century came from
- A.
Latin America and Asia.
- B.
Northwestern Europe.
- C.
Africa.
- D.
Canada.
- 13.A major factor in the declining number of family farms in the last half of the 20th century is
- A.
Large corporate farms.
- B.
The lack of enough water to support a small farm.
- C.
The decision by so many young adults raised on family farms to move to the cities.
- D.
The increase in the number of Mexican immigrants.
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