US History Chapter 18 and 20.2.3: The Civil Rights Movement

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1. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ended:

A. Segregation in public schoolsB. Segregation in private clubsC. Discrimination on buses

2. The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted under the so-called:

A. “Separate-but-equal” doctrineB. “constitutional racism” doctrineC. “civil rights” doctrine

3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through:

A. Violence and riots B. WarC. Nonviolent passive resistance

4. A group of 101 Southern members of Congress signed the Southern Manifesto encouraging white Southerners to:

A. Defy the Supreme CourtB. Embrace desegregation C. Register African Americans to vote

5. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP worked to fight segregation and other inequalities through:

A. Armed rebellionsB. The courts C. Electing African American politicians

6. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worked to fight segregation and other inequalities through:

A. Armed rebellionsB. Sit-insC. Electing African American politicians

Use the timeline below to answer questions 7-8.

7. The first major protest of the civil rights movement occurred in what state, according to the timeline above?

A. Washington, D.C.B. AlabamaC. Arkansas

8. Using the timeline and your prior knowledge, which civil rights milestone took place in the same year as Lyndon Johnson was inaugurated into presidency in 1963?

A. Congress passes the Voting Rights ActB. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech

9. Why did President Eisenhower send National Guard troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

A. To close all school in the areaB. To allow African American students to enter the schoolC. To join the Governor of Arkansas at his segregation rally

Use the chart below to answer questions 10-11.

10. Which of the Supreme Court ruling in the chart above allowed segregation?

A. Sweatt v. PainterB. Brown v. Board of EducationC. Plessy v. Ferguson

11. Why did the Supreme Court’s decision in Morgan v. Virginia not prevent the Rosa Parks incident from happening?

A. The Supreme Court ruling applied to interstate buses, not local busesB. Equal facilities were not provided on Alabama busesC. Rosa Parks had African Americans on her jury

12. Which civil rights leader was assassinated during the 1960’s?

A. Martin Luther King Jr.B. Malcolm X.C. Both A and B

13. Which event led to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

A. The CORE sit-inB. The Arrest of Rosa ParksC. Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr

14. In 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) set out to

A. Encourage demonstrations and boycottsB. Increase church attendance and promote brotherhoodC. End segregation and encourage voter registration

Use the map below to answer questions 15-16.

15. The intended destination of the Freedom Riders was:

A. Washington, D.C.B. Jackson, MississippiC. New Orleans, Louisiana

16. The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to:

A. Promote voter registrationB. End school segregationC. Integrate bus terminals

17. In Greensboro, North Carolina, four students started a new mass movement by using to integrate restaurants.

A. Sit-insB. ThreatsC. Petitions

Use the pictures above to answer question 18.

18. In 1963, the SCLC launched demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama to get President Kennedy to actively support Civil Rights. Over 2,500 people were arrested, including Martin Luther King Jr. All of the following were results of this campaign EXCEPT:

A. Dr. King writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail”B. The fear of the Red Scare increasedC. Protestors used nonviolent direct action tactics to defy laws they considered unfair

“I want to take this occasion to talk to you about what… [the Civil Rights Act of 1964] means to every American… We believe that all men are created equal. Yet many are denied equal treatment… We believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. Yet millions are being deprived of those blessings – not because of their own failures, but because of the color of their skin. The reasons are deeply imbedded in history and tradition and the nature of man. We can understand – without rancor or hatred – how this all happened. But it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbids it. And the law I will sign tonight forbids it.

- Lyndon Johnson on the evening of July 2, 1964 as he prepares to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Use the passage below to answer questions 19-20.

19. According to Johnson, what are the origins of racism?

A. History B. Tradition C. Both A and B

20. What document does Johnson refer to that forbids the continuation of racism in the United States?

A. The Koran B. The Bible C. The Constitution

21. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Gave the federal government broad power to prevent racial discrimination B. Made segregation illegal in most places of public accommodation C. For the first time in US history, it allowed on African American to vote.

22. In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the Attorney General to:

A. Provide literacy tests to newly registered votesB. Require taxes in order registerC. End discrimination in voting

23. Which of the following is true about the urban riots in Detroit and Watts?

A. They were led by leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.B. They began because of the forced desegregation caused by the Brown decisionC. They began because of discrimination African Americans faced in urban settings

24. The Civil Rights movement was also focused on issues in the North. Which was NOT a Northern Civil Rights issue?

A. Violence in citiesB. Discrimination in housing salesC. Allowing African Americans to vote

25. Black Panthers urged African Americans to ….

A. Arm themselves against white societyB. Use non-violent protestsC. Register to vote

26. While in prison, Malcolm Little joined the Nation of Islam, also known as the Black Muslims. Despite their name, the Nation of Islam do not have the same beliefs as mainstream Muslims, but preach:

A. NonviolenceB. Black nationalismC. Dependence on whites

27. After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that:

A. An integrated society was possibleB. A “separate but equal” society was possibleC. Assimilation was key to successfully integrated society

28. Which of the following is true about the impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination?

A. Allowed Malcolm X to become the primary leader of the civil rights B. Led to urban riots in cities throughout the United StatesC. Ended all discrimination

29. The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the constitution abolished:

A. Poll taxesB. Discrimination at workC. Consumption of alcohol

30. Feminism is the belief that:

A. Men and women should be equal politically, economically, and socially B. Men should have more rights than womenC. Youth should have more political, economic, and social rights than the elderly

Use the chart above to answer questions 31-32.

31. The Roe v. Wade decision in 1973…

A. Prevented discrimination in schoolsB. Guaranteed equal rights to womenC. Guaranteed abortion rights for women

32. Which of the following required state universities to offer an equal number of scholarships to female and male athletes?

A. ERAB. Title IXC. Roe v. Wade

33. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 outlawed:

A. Paying women more than men for the same jobB. Paying factory workers more than hospital workersC. Paying men more than women for the same job

34. The National Organization for Women demanded:

A. Greater educational opportunities for women B. The right of women to be drafted into the militaryC. Traditional rights for women

35. All of the following influenced the Feminist Movement’s beginning EXCEPT…

A. More women were entering the workforceB. More women were entering higher education institutionsC. The elimination of the wage gap between men and women

“As poor refugees, their first concern was to find a place to sleep, then to eat and find work. In the barrio they were most likely to find all three, for not knowing English, they needed something that was even more urgent than a room, a meal, or a job, and that was information in a language they could understand.” - Ernesto Galarza

36. How did the National Organization for Women and the Stop-ERA campaigns differ in their reactions to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment?

A. Stop-ERA wanted to change social patterns while NOW did not want change

B. NOW wanted new rights while Stop-ERA feared losing rights

C. Stop-ERA and NOW did not differ at all

37. Beginning in 1959, more than 350,000 Cubans left Cuba for the United States because of:

A. Unfair employment practices B. A Communist revolution C. The Mexican Revolution

38. Some opponents of bilingualism argued that:

A. Bilingualism made it difficult for Latinos to assimilateB. It would hold back the education of native-English-speaking studentsC. The Constitution established English as the nation’s only official language

Using your prior knowledge and both graphs to the right to help answer questions 39-40.

39. All of the following are results of the Feminist Movement EXCEPT:

A. More women have pursued college degreesB. More women have pursued careers outside

the homeC. There is no longer an income gap between

men and women

40. How much has the percentage of women in the workforce increased from 1950 to 2000?

A. About 20%B. About 30%C. About 40%

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41. Using the reading above, identify what a barrio was:

A. A nice place to live for Latino immigrantsB. A lower class neighborhood where Latino immigrants settledC. A way to round up illegal immigrants and deport them

42. Which of the following is NOT true about Cesar Chavez’s role for Latino Rights?

A. Co-Founded the United Farm WorkersB. He was a communist revolutionaryC. Wanted better wages and benefits for farm workers

43. To push for better wages and benefits for farm workers, Cesar Chavez organized a successful:

A. March on WashingtonB. Advertising and publicity campaignC. National boycott on grapes

44. The arrangement in which laborers from Mexico entered into short-term employment contracts in the Southwest was known as:

A. The Bracero ProgramB. Illegal immigrationC. American GI Forum

Use the chart below to answer questions 45-46.

45. According to the chart, how did La Raza Unida and the United Farm Workers differ in their goals?

A. The United Farm Workers did not seek greater economic opportunities for Latino Americans

B. La Raza Unida worked to mobilize Latino American voters

C. La Raza Unida did not seek greater economic opportunities

46. Which organization or campaign did NOT fight to advance civil rights?

A. National Organization of Women (NOW)B. La Raza UnidaC. Stop-ERA

47. What did the Feminist Movement, Latino Movement and the Civil Rights Movement have in common?

A. Increase educational opportunitiesB. Challenged discriminationC. Both A and B

Using the reading below to answer the following 3 questions.

Proclamation of the Delano Grape Workers for International Boycott DayMay 10, 1969

by Dolores Huerta

We, the striking grape workers of California, join on this International Boycott Day with the consumers across the continent in planning the steps that lie ahead on the road to our liberation. As we plan, we recall the footsteps that brought us to this day and the events of this day. The historic road of our pilgrimage to Sacramento later branched out, spreading like the unpruned vines in struck fields, until it led us to willing exile in cities across this land. There, far from the earth we tilled for generations, we have cultivated the strange soil of public understanding, sowing the seed of our truth and our cause in the minds and hearts of men.

We have been farmworkers for hundreds of years and strikers for four. We mean to have our peace, and to win it without violence, for it is violence we would overcome the subtle spiritual and mental violence of oppression, the violence subhuman toil does to the human body. So we went and stood tall outside the vineyards where we had stooped for years. But the tailors of national labor legislation had left us naked. Thus exposed, our picket lines were crippled by injunctions and harassed by growers; our strike was broken by imported scabs; our overtures to our employers were ignored. Yet we knew the day must come when they would talk to us, as equals.

We have been farmworkers for hundreds of years and boycotters for two. We did not choose the grape boycott, but we had chosen to leave our peonage, poverty and despair behind. Though our first bid for

freedom, the strike, was weakened, we would not turn back. The boycott was the only way forward the growers left to us. We called upon our fellow men and were answered by consumers who said - as all men of conscience must - that they would no longer allow their tables to be subsidized by our sweat and our sorrow: They shunned the grapes, fruit of our affliction.

We marched alone at the beginning, but today we count men of all creeds, nationalities, and occupations in our number. Between us and the justice we seek now stand the large and powerful grocers who, in continuing to buy table grapes, betray the boycott their own customers have built. These stores treat their patrons' demands to remove the grapes the same way the growers treat our demands for union recognition - by ignoring them. The consumers who rally behind our cause are responding as we do to such treatment - with a boycott! They pledge to withhold their patronage from stores that handle grapes during the boycott, just as we withhold our labor from the growers until our dispute is resolved.

Grapes must remain an unenjoyed luxury for all as long as the barest human needs and basic human rights are still luxuries for farmworkers. The grapes grow sweet and heavy on the vines, but they will have to wait while we reach out first for our freedom. The time is ripe for our liberation.

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48. According to the passage, the author would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

A. Boycotts are pointless and never achieve anythingB. Boycotts do not need the support of the publicC. Boycotts are a tool to seek justiceD. Boycotts on luxury items are unsuccessfulE. Boycotts are a quick and efficient way to make political change

49. In line 37 (end of paragraph 3), the word subsidized mostly means:

A. ExcitedB. SupportedC. TerrorizedD. QualifiedE. Taxed

50. The author asserts that migrants far workers were:I. OppressedII. Lacked consumer supportIII. Overworked

A. I and II B. I onlyC. I, II, and IIID. II and IIIE. I and III