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US History Ch 18

Vocabulary 1

Question: racial separation imposed by law
Answer: de jure segregation

Question: bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes
Answer: freedom ride

Question: A massive 1964 effort to register African Americans voters in Mississippi
Answer: Freedom Summer

Question: Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education

Question: banned literacy tests for voter registration
Answer: Voting Rights Act of 1965

People and Things

Question: best known African American radical activist
Answer: Malcom X

Question: African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation
Answer: Thurgood Marshall

Question: student who helped NAACP in a desegregation case against "ole Miss"
Answer: James Meredith

Question: term coined by SNCC leader Stokley Charmichael
Answer: Black Power

Question: attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots
Answer: Kerner Commission

Questions 1

Question: Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?
a. Jackie Robinson c. Thurgood Marshall
b. Ralph Abernathy d. Rosa Parks
Answer: a. Jackie Robinson

Question: How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
Answer: more than a year

Question: At what school was there major rioting over James Meredith's enrollment?
Answer: The University of Mississippi "Ole Miss"

Question: What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?
a. It affirmed the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
b. It organized national “White Citizens Councils.”
c. It overturned Brown II.
d. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
Answer: d. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.

Question: In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation,
a. the Johnson administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists.
b. the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.
c. the Kennedy administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists.
d. the Johnson administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.
Answer: b. the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.

Question: While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to ____________________________________.
Answer: the Nation of Islam

Question: Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?
Answer: NAACP

Question: Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign?
Answer: it was considered the most segregated city in the South

Question: In a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court
a. overturned Brown v. Board of Education.
b. ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education.
c. implemented “The Southern Manifesto.”
d. upheld the segregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Answer: b. ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education.

Question: What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King’s assassination?
a. the Fair Housing Act c. the Kerner Commission
b. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment d. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Answer: a. the Fair Housing Act

Question: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of
a. education. c. age.
b. race. d. gender.
Answer: b. race.

Question: To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?
Answer: Little Rock, Arkansas

Question: The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as
Answer: "Bloody Sunday"

Question: What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
Answer: riots broke out

Question: What is an argument that people used to prevent affirmative action?
a. It would eventually end segregation.
b. It would remedy the legacy of racial discrimination.
c. It would provide equal opportunities to all.
d. It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society.
Answer: d. It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society.