Civil Rights Movement &
Key Domestic Changes of the
Post-WWII U.S.
Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice
Review Guide
U.S. II 9a-d; 8d
Use the answer bank below to complete the shortanswer questions on the following slides. Then answer
the multiple-choice questions.
• Civil Rights Movement
•Freedom Riders
•ERA (Equal Rights
• Voting Rights Act of
Amendment)
1965
•Montgomery bus boycott
• segregation
•NAACP
• Brown v. Board of
•Booker T. Washington
Education
•Title IX
• sit-ins
•Plessy v. Ferguson
• W.E.B. DuBois
•Rosa Parks
•women
• Dr. Martin Luther King,
•President Harry S Truman
Jr.
• National Organization of •Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Women (NOW)
#1
• Which Supreme
Court case ruled
that school
segregation was
illegal?
• Which Supreme
Court decision
did this overturn?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#2
• What legislation was
passed in 1972 to
increase equality for
women’s athletics?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#3
• Which law outlawed certain
practices in the South such as
poll taxes and literacy tests?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#4
• Which president
desegregated the
military?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#5
• What vocabulary word means, “to
divide groups based on race”?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#6
• In 1966, which women’s organization
was created to fight for equal pay for
equal work?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#7
• To protest
segregated
lunch counters,
many high
school and
college students
participated in
________.
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#8
• What legislation outlawed the
segregation of restaurants, hotels,
and other public facilities?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#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?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#10
• ________________ boarded
Greyhound buses to protest
segregated travel.
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#11
• Which amendment
was designed to
ban discrimination
based on gender?
(It failed to get enough
support to pass.)
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#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.)
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#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?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#14
• Which civil rights leader
supported non-violent
resistance?
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
#15
During which time period did
the events below take place?
Organized
protests
Marches
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Sit-ins
Freedom
Riders
1. What type of civil
disobedience did African
Americans use in 1961 to end
segregation in the South?
A
B
C
D
Jim Crow segregation
sit-ins
riots
March on Washington
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.
2. What 1896 Supreme Court
decision legalized Jim Crow
segregation in the South?
A
B
C
D
Plessy v Ferguson
Gideon v Wainwright
Dred Scott v Sanford
Brown v Board of
Education
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.
3. What was the result of the
Supreme Court decision in
Brown v. Board of Education?
A
B
C
D
equal voting rights
integration of all public
facilities
desegregation of public
schools
abolition of the poll tax
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.
4.The use of poll taxes to prevent
African Americans from voting
was outlawed by
A
B
C
D
the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
the 13th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States.
the Patriot Act.
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.
5.The National Organization for
Women was created to
A
B
C
D
ensure women the right to vote.
ensure that mothers have access to
affordable daycare.
elect more women to public office.
work against gender discrimination
in employment.
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d
Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.
6. Which of the following is NOT true
about women in American society by
the mid 1990s?
A
B
C
D
Most women were paid less than
men.
Women had achieved full economic
equality with men.
Most women worked for pay outside
the home.
Women were underrepresented in
U.S. II 9a, b; 8d public office.
the area of elected
Adapted from Va. Dept. of Ed.