M1L2 Practice

What is the definition of civil rights?

• Protections provided by the government to ensure all people are treated equally under the law.

• Freedoms that protect individuals from government interference.

• The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

• A way of fighting for change without using violence.

Which of the following is an example of a civil liberty?

• The right to vote for African American men.

• The end of slavery in the United States.

• Freedom of religion.

• The right to equal housing opportunities.

What is the Bill of Rights? 

• A law that ended segregation in public places.

• The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that list and protect individual freedoms.

• A constitutional amendment that granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

• A federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting.

What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish? 

• It gave African American men the right to vote.

• It granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

• It ended slavery in the United States.

• It banned racial discrimination in voting.

What was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• To grant citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States.

• To end slavery in the United States.

• To give African American men the right to vote.

• To ban racial discrimination in voting.

What were Black Codes? 

• A federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting.

• A constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.

• Laws that enforced segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

• Laws passed by Southern states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.

What did the Fifteenth Amendment guarantee?

• The end of slavery in the United States.

• The right to vote for African American men.

• The right to equal housing opportunities.

• The protection of individual freedoms from government interference.

What were Jim Crow laws?

• Laws that ended slavery in the United States.

• Laws that banned racial discrimination in voting.

• Laws that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

• Laws that enforced segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

What did the Nineteenth Amendment achieve? 

• It gave African American men the right to vote.

• It banned racial discrimination in voting.

• It gave women the right to vote in the United States.

• It ended segregation in public places.

Who were the Little Rock Nine?

• A group of activists who fought for women's voting rights.

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  A group of lawmakers who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• A group of African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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  A group of African American men who gained the right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment.