The Civil Rights Movement

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Which action designed to oppose a political or business policy is closest to the approach used by Martin Luther King, Jr.? Options: a war protester accepting a jail term rather than registering for the draft, a union picketer assaulting a strikebreaker, a government employee resisting arrest for failure to pay income taxes, dissatisfied workers destroying machinery in their factory.

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a war protester accepting a jail term rather than registering for the draft

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Which generalization can most accurately be drawn from a study of Supreme Court cases Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education?

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The Supreme Court has helped to determine public policy

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What was the major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s?

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End segregation based on race.

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When necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King, Jr., urge his followers to employ?

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engaging in civil disobedience

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When President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1957 school integration crisis, he was exercising his constitutional power as? Options: Chief Legislator, Commander-in-Chief, Chief Diplomat, Head of State

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Commander-in-Chief

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Effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education: "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

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Require the integration of public schools

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct:
- racial and gender discrimination
- limitations on freedom of speech
- unfair immigration quotas
- segregation in the armed forces

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racial and gender discrimination

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What step was taken following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 speech to advance his dream?

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passage of new civil rights acts

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The changes shown in the chart were most directly the result of:
- enactment of voting-reform laws by these southern states
- Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education
- passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- executive branch’s resistance to protecting the civil rights of minorities

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passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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The poll tax, the literacy test, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of:

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the 14th and 15th amendments