Social Transformations

After World War II, _________________ began.

• many civil rights movements

• reconstruction of cities

• the Vietnam War

• economic hardship

Some organizations that stood to change segregation laws across the United States included all of the following EXCEPT: 

• Pillars for a Greater America

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Segregation was finally outlawed in schools after ____________________ .

• Brown v. Board of Education made the practice illegal

• Martin Luther King Jr. and 500,000 others marched on Washington

• Rosa Parks was arrested for failure to give up he seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama

• the Red Scare had ended

Thurgood Marshall, who successfully argued the Brown v. Board case before the Supreme Court, went on to ____________________.

• become the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court

• become the first African American to be on the US Senate

• be elected leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• all choices are true

When Rosa Parks got arrested for failing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, ________________________. 

• a bus boycott took place until bus terminals were desegregated

• freedom riders would travel the Southern cities fighting for desegregation of busing everywhere

• a federal court stated segregation of buses were a violation of the 14th Amendment

• all answers are correct

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference elected to have ____________________ be elected its leader in its journey to end desegregation across the South. 

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• each of these served as leaders of the SCLC at one time

The form of protest Martin Luther King Jr. urged was ____________.

• non-violent

• aggressively resistant

• freedom by any means necessary

• treating others how King's supporters were treated

One hundred years after being emancipated from slavery, African Americans still faced severe inequalities by the 1960s in the American workplace, so much so that it was often difficult for people to find work. This lead to the :

• March on Washington

• Freedom Rides

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• all options are true

__________________________ invigorated further civil rights movements across the United States.

• The "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the March on Washington

• withdrawal from the Vietnam War

• the Brown v. Board verdict

• the Red Scare

After World War II, America experienced a period of ________________.

• economic prosperity

• economic hardship

• continued wars in new places coupled with immense poverty

• freedom and equality for all