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Civil Rights Movement & Key Domestic Changes of the

Post-WWII U.S.

Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice

Review Guide

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Use the answer bank below to complete the short-answer questions on the following slides. Then answer

the multiple-choice questions.

• Civil Rights Movement• Voting Rights Act of 1965• segregation• Brown v. Board of

Education• sit-ins• W.E.B. DuBois• Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr.• National Organization of

Women (NOW)

•Freedom Riders•ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)•Montgomery bus boycott•NAACP•Booker T. Washington•Title IX•Plessy v. Ferguson•Rosa Parks•women•President Harry S Truman•Civil Rights Act of 1964

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#1

• Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation was illegal?

• Which Supreme Court decision did this overturn?

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#2

• What legislation was passed in 1972 to increase equality for women’s athletics?

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#3

• Which law outlawed certain practices in the South such as poll taxes and literacy tests?

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#4

• Which president desegregated the military?

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#5

• What vocabulary word means, “to divide groups based on race”?

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#6

• In 1966, which women’s organization was created to fight for equal pay for equal work?

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#7

• To protest segregated lunch counters, many high school and college students participated in ________.

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#8

• What legislation outlawed the segregation of restaurants, hotels, and other public facilities?

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#9• Who refused to give up her

seat to a white passenger and was arrested and fined? (She is sometimes called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.)

• What did the African American community do to protest the woman’s arrest?

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#10

• ________________ boarded Greyhound buses to protest segregated travel.

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#11

• Which amendment was designed to ban discrimination based on gender? (It failed to get enough support to pass.)

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#12

• Which organization was formed in 1909 to advance the rights and equality of African Americans? (W.E.B. DuBois was one of the early founders of this organization.)

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#13

• Which leader supported full and immediate social, civil, and political rights for African Americans?

• Which leader believed equality for African Americans could be achieved through vocational training?

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#14

• Which civil rights leader supported non-violent resistance?

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#15

Organized protests

MarchesFreedom Riders

During which time period did the events below take place?

Sit-ins

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1. What type of civil disobedience did African Americans use in 1961 to end segregation in the South?

A Jim Crow segregationB sit-insC riotsD March on Washington

Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.

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2. What 1896 Supreme Court decision legalized Jim Crow segregation in the South?

A Plessy v FergusonB Gideon v WainwrightC Dred Scott v SanfordD Brown v Board of Education

Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.

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3. What was the result of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

A equal voting rights B integration of all public facilitiesC desegregation of public schoolsD abolition of the poll tax

Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.

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4.The use of poll taxes to prevent African Americans from voting was outlawed by

A the Voting Rights Act of 1965.B the Civil Rights Act of 1964.C the 13th Amendment to the

Constitution of the United States.D the Patriot Act.

Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.

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5.The National Organization for Women was created to

A ensure women the right to vote.B ensure that mothers have access

to affordable daycare.

C elect more women to public office.D work against gender

discrimination in employment.

Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.

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6. Which of the following is NOT true about women in American society by the mid 1990s?

A Most women were paid less than men.B Women had achieved full economic

equality with men.C Most women worked for pay outside

the home.D Women were underrepresented in the area of elected public office.

Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.