Civil Rights

During Reconstruction the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified. Which issue did these amendments address?

• Rights for women

• Readmission of states to the Union

• Rights for former slaves

• Presidential impeachment proceedings

Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised?

• The temperance movement

• The passage of Jim Crow laws

• The passage of antitrust legislation

• The conservation movement

The name of which civil rights leader best completes the title of the graphic?

• Booker T. Washington

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Stokely Carmichael

• Malcolm X

In the 1960s which action of the Black Panthers was MOST DIFFERENT from the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• Writing a ten-point platform that demanded decent housing

• Using armed patrols to protect neighborhoods

• Operating the Free Breakfast for Children Program

• Creating “survival” programs that included medical and legal aid

Which of the following did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibit when it came to voting?

• Providing proof of employment

• Proving property ownership

• Passing literacy tests

• Taking religious tests

The federal government responded to which issue by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• Unfair lending practices by banks

• Unequal representation in local legislatures

• Inadequate medical services in urban areas

• Discrimination by employers

Why did Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta help establish the United Farm Workers?

• To exert influence on foreign policy

• To obtain fair wages and improve labor conditions

• To attain the right to vote in federal elections

• To change citizenship requirements

How did Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique affect the lives of everyday Americans?

• By inspiring women in the 1960s to question their traditional social roles

• By focusing attention on a widespread environmental problem

• By advocating for passage of consumer safety laws during the 1970s

• By bringing attention to racial discrimination in government hiring practices

In 1957, 1,000 whites, led by Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, gathered in front of Little Rock Central High School, preventing 9 African American students from entering. This confrontation centered around —

• disagreement over the use of taxes to fund public education

• the refusal of federal courts to hear cases concerning civil rights violations

• the denial of First and Fifth Amendment freedoms by southern state legislatures

• resistance by state and local governments to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling

In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson —

• established a legal remedy for victims of discrimination

• created a legal justification for segregation laws

• affirmed the legality of federal regulation of state elections

• recognized public protests as a legal form of civil disobedience