Mississippi Studies Chapter 9 Test

What does "BAWI" stand for? (7.2)

• Balance agriculture with institution

• Bring agriculture with industry

• Balance agriculture with industry

• Balance aquaculture with integrity

What were two reasons for the decline of cotton production in Mississippi during the 1920s? (1.4)

• Cotton gin and sharecroppers

• Great Migration and the Black Exodus

• Flood of 1927 and the Great Migration

• Boll weevil and Flood of 1927

What is considered by some historians the event that launched the Civil Rights Movement?(8.1)

• The murder of Medgar Evers

• The murder of Emmett Till

• The murders of the three civil rights workers in Neshoba County

• Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on he bus

What prevented the murderers of Emmett Till from being retried after they confessed to his murder in a magazine? (8.1)

• Mississippi law

• Civil Rights Act

• The double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution

• The Citizens' Council

The drastic and rapid fall in stock prices experienced by the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929, is known as _____________.(7.2)

• The Great Migration

• World War II

• The Panic of 1929

• The New York Panic

What event ended the Great Depression in Mississippi? (7.2)

• The Great Migration

• World War I

• World War II

• The Panic of 1929

What was the reaction of Mississippi governor Hugh L White to the Brown vs. Board decision? (8.3)

• He sent national guard troops to help desegregate public schools

• He was determined to prevent desegregation in Mississippi public schools

• He took no action whatsoever

• He stood in front of the Department of Education and refused to allow anyone inside

What was the Citizens' Council? (8.3)

• A group founded in 1954 by white citizens in Indianola to assist state officials in preventing desegregation of public schools

• A small group of politicians who dominated the state legislature in the early 1950-1960s.

• A group of southern politicians who made fiery speeches througout the south supporting secession

• A Civil Rights organization founded to promote a nonviolent approach to combating racial prejudice.

A social movement to secure the equal treatment of blacks under the law is called the ______________. (8.1)

• Harlem Renaissance

• Mississippi Plan

• Resolution of Interposition

• Civil Rights Movement

A resolution passed by the state legislature in 1954 in response to the Brown vs. Board decision that declared the Supreme Court ruling invalid was the ______________________. (8.3)

• Resolution of Interposition

• State Sovereignty Commission

• Mississippi Plan

• Original jurisdiction