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Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

iClicker Questions for America’s History, Seventh Edition and America: A Concise History, Fifth Edition

1. In 1950 African Americans accounted for what percentage of the U.S. population?

A. 10 percent

B. 20 percent

C. 25 percent

D. 30 percent

2. Which of the following was not a method that whites used to prevent blacks from voting in the South?

A. Native American pressure

B. poll tests

C. literacy tests

D. fraud

3. Downtown black neighborhoods in northern states were known as

A. reservations.

B. ghettoes.

C. barrios.

D. suburbia.

4. Which of the following sports did Jackie Robinson integrate in 1947?

A. major league baseball

B. boxing

C. basketball

D. football

5. The Voting Rights Act of 1965

A. contributed greatly to the number of blacks who were able to vote.

B. had very little effect on federal elections due to the resistance of whites.

C. helped northern blacks to vote but did not change conditions in most of the South.

D. was repealed the following year when Democratic senators opposed the legislation.

6. Which of the following African American men was not a prominent NAACP lawyer during the 1930s?

A. Thurgood Marshall

B. Charles Hamilton Houston

C. Stokely Carmichael

D. William Hastie

7. All of the following are true about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. except

A. it happened in 1968.

B. it took place in the South.

C. Congress sought to implement King's vision of social justice through legislation.

D. The Nation of Islam assassinated King

8. Which of the following statements best describes President Eisenhower’s view of civil rights?

A. He was a major champion of the movement.

B. He was an ardent segregationist.

C. He thought the Brown decision a mistake and did not champion civil rights.

D. He favored the idea of using federal power to enforce Brown.

9. Mexican American civil rights activists

A. established much greater unity than did similar movements among African Americans.

B. faced significant challenges in the United States due to language barriers, poverty, and uncertain legal status.

C. consistently called for assimilation into mainstream society.

D. found the black civil rights movement a poor model to follow.

10. All of the following figured into the Montgomery Bus Boycott except

A. Malcolm X closely assisted Martin Luther King Jr. during the movement.

B. Rosa Parks ignited the movement when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.

C. the boycott lasted more than a year.

D. the black church was a central organizing point for the boycott.

Answer Key for Chapter 27

1. Answer is A2. Answer is A3. Answer is B4. Answer is A5. Answer is A6. Answer is C7. Answer is D8. Answer is C9. Answer is B10.Answer is A