1. this amendment banned slavery in the united states. a) jim crow b) 15th c) 13th d) 14th

1. This amendment banned slavery in the United States.

• A) Jim Crow• B) 15th• C) 13th• D) 14th

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2. This amendment says that governments may not prevent someone from voting based on the

color of their skin.

• A) Jim Crow• B) 14th• C) 13th• D) 15th

3. This amendment says who is a citizen and that all citizens must receive equal treatment.

• A) 15th• B) 14th• C) 12th• D) 5th

4. In 1896, this Supreme Court case said that “separate but equal” was legal.

• A) Roe v. Wade• B) Plessy v. Ferguson• C) Gideon v. Wainwright• D) Marbury v. Madison

5. This is separation by custom or tradition.

• A) Plessy v. Ferguson• B) Black Codes• C) de facto segregation• D) Jim Crow

6. To stop African Americans from voting, some states required a(n) _________________ to be paid.

• A) luxury tax

• B) excise tax

• C) income tax

• D) poll tax

7. This was the nickname for laws that required blacks and whites to use separate facilities (water fountains, restaurants,

schools, others).

• A) Reconstruction Laws

• B) Brown Codes

• C) Jim Crow Laws

• D) Plessy Laws

8. This group formed in the early 1900’s and is still active today. It was set up to help

improve the conditions for African Americans.• A) SCLC

• B) NAACP

• C) SNCC

• D) CORE

9. The 1963 March on Washington in which Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech was designed to pressure Congress to pass a law to…..

• A) desegregate baseball• B) desegregate the military• C) desegregate colleges• D) make racial discrimination illegal

11. A form of protest which first got national attention when a group of college students in North Carolina used it to protest segregation in restaurants.

• A) riots• B) lynchings• C) sit ins• D) boycotts

12. What was the time period called when the social and physical conditions in the South had to be rebuilt

following the Civil War?

• A) Civil Rights period• B) Reconstruction• C) the Great Migration• D) De Facto Period

14. What President integrated the military?

• A) Dwight Eisenhower• B) Lyndon Johnson• C) John F. Kennedy• D) Harry Truman

16. This man is often associated with SNCC and the Black Power movement and his beliefs included the use of violence.

• A) Emmett Till• B) Stokley Carmichael• C) Jackie Robinson• D) Joe Louis

17. The U.S. President who used the military in 1957 to ensure that the nine black students in Little Rock could enter the school

and be safe inside of it.

• A) President Johnson• B) President Truman• C) President Eisenhower• D) President Kennedy

18. A Black civil rights leader who first gained national attention for his strategies of non-violent protests. He helped to organize

the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.

• A) Stokely Carmichael

• B) Malcolm X

• C) Rosa Parks

• D) Dr. Martin Luther King

19. This civil rights leader was famous for the phrase “by any means necessary” implying that he would support both peaceful and violent

forms of protest to bring about change in the way Blacks were treated in the U.S. He was associated with Black Muslims and the Nation of Islam.

• A) Martin Luther King, Jr.• B) Stokely Carmichael• C) Malcolm X• D) Thurgood Marshall

20. This stated that segregated schools were unconstitutional.

• A) Black Codes

• B) Brown vs. Board of Education

• C) Plessy vs. Ferguson

• D) Jim Crow

22. The brutal death of this African American teen brought world-wide attention to the racial violence in

the South.

• A) Emmett Till

• B) Joe Louis

• C) Stokely Carmichael

• D) Bobby Kennedy

23. A bus boycott in this city brought national attention to the issue of segregation. The boycott was successful because

it created economic hardships for the bus companies.

• A) Little Rock

• B) Selma

• C) Montgomery

• D) Birmingham

24. This African American was the first major league baseball player in an all-White league.

• A) Joe Louis

• B) Jackie Robinson

• C)Brooks Robinson

• D) Frank Robinson

25. The arrest of this person sparked a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama.

• A) Martin Luther King, Jr.• B) Malcolm X• C) Rosa Parks• D) Thurgood Marshall

26. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did what?

• A) only addressed the issue of arresting protestors

• B) only addressed the issue of voting

• C) created the Department of Justice headed by Bobby Kennedy

• D) gave the federal government broad powers in enforcing civil rights laws and

created the EEOC

29. The time periods in the 1900’s when African Americans moved North to get jobs in factories.

• A) Marathon Migration• B) Great Migration• C) National Exodus• D) Underground Railroad

30. The plan by President Johnson to bring economic prosperity and Civil Rights to the poor

and to Black Americans.

• A) Fair Deal• B) Great Society• C) New Deal• D) Even Steven

31. This radical Black group supported the use of violence in order to obtain Civil Rights. They

supported a revolution if necessary to bring about equal rights.

• A) Freedom Riders• B) CORE• C) Black Panthers• D) SCLC

32. This group first formed to push for Civil Rights including the end to segregation. They used

peaceful protests such as sit-ins and freedom rides.

• A) union of Malcolm X and Martin L. King• B) Congress of Racial Equality• C) Black Panthers• D) Nation of Islam

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