Civil Rights Test 2

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. From whom did Martin Luther King Jr. get the idea of non violent resistance?

Rosa Parks

Winston Churchill

President Kennedy

Gandhi

11. 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

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

Civil rights

Massive resistance

Nonviolent forms of protest

Freedom events

13. 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

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

Racism

Segregation

Massive resistance

Violent protests

15. 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

16. Most civil rights protests occurred in what location?

Washington DC

The Southern States

Voting polls

Supreme Court hearings

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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