1. This amendment banned slavery in the United
States.
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A) Jim Crow
B) 15th
C) 13th
D) 14th
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2. This amendment says that governments may
not prevent someone from voting based on the
color of their skin.
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A) Jim Crow
B) 14th
C) 13th
D) 15th
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3. This amendment says who is a citizen and that all
citizens must receive equal treatment.
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A) 15th
B) 14th
C) 12th
D) 5th
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4. In 1896, this Supreme Court case said that
“separate but equal” was legal.
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A) Roe v. Wade
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Gideon v. Wainwright
D) Marbury v. Madison
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5. This is separation by custom or tradition.
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A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) Black Codes
C) de facto segregation
D) Jim Crow
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6. To stop African Americans from voting, some states required
a(n) _________________ to be paid.
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A) luxury tax
B) excise tax
C) income tax
D) poll tax
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7. This was the nickname for laws that required blacks and
whites to use separate facilities (water fountains, restaurants,
schools, others).
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A) Reconstruction Laws
B) Brown Codes
C) Jim Crow Laws
D) Plessy Laws
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8. This group formed in the early 1900’s and is
still active today. It was set up to help
improve the conditions for African Americans.
• A) SCLC
• B) NAACP
• C) SNCC
• D) CORE
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9. The 1963 March on Washington in which Martin
Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech was
designed to pressure Congress to pass a law to…..
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A) desegregate baseball
B) desegregate the military
C) desegregate colleges
D) make racial discrimination illegal
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11. A form of protest which first got national
attention when a group of college students in North
Carolina used it to protest segregation in restaurants.
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A) riots
B) lynchings
C) sit ins
D) boycotts
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12. What was the time period called when the social
and physical conditions in the South had to be rebuilt
following the Civil War?
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A) Civil Rights period
B) Reconstruction
C) the Great Migration
D) De Facto Period
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14. What President integrated the military?
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A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) Lyndon Johnson
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Harry Truman
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16. This man is often associated with SNCC and the Black Power
movement and his beliefs included the use of violence.
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A) Emmett Till
B) Stokley Carmichael
C) Jackie Robinson
D) Joe Louis
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17. The U.S. President who used the military in 1957 to ensure
that the nine black students in Little Rock could enter the school
and be safe inside of it.
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A) President Johnson
B) President Truman
C) President Eisenhower
D) President Kennedy
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18. A Black civil rights leader who first gained national attention
for his strategies of non-violent protests. He helped to organize
the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.
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A) Stokely Carmichael
B) Malcolm X
C) Rosa Parks
D) Dr. Martin Luther King
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19. This civil rights leader was famous for the phrase “by any means
necessary” implying that he would support both peaceful and violent
forms of protest to bring about change in the way Blacks were treated in
the U.S. He was associated with Black Muslims and the Nation of Islam.
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A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Stokely Carmichael
C) Malcolm X
D) Thurgood Marshall
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20. This stated that segregated schools were
unconstitutional.
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A) Black Codes
B) Brown vs. Board of Education
C) Plessy vs. Ferguson
D) Jim Crow
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22. The brutal death of this African American teen
brought world-wide attention to the racial violence in
the South.
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A) Emmett Till
B) Joe Louis
C) Stokely Carmichael
D) Bobby Kennedy
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23. A bus boycott in this city brought national attention to
the issue of segregation. The boycott was successful because
it created economic hardships for the bus companies.
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A) Little Rock
B) Selma
C) Montgomery
D) Birmingham
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24. This African American was the first major league baseball
player in an all-White league.
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A) Joe Louis
B) Jackie Robinson
C)Brooks Robinson
D) Frank Robinson
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25. The arrest of this person sparked a boycott of the
bus system in Montgomery, Alabama.
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A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Malcolm X
C) Rosa Parks
D) Thurgood Marshall
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26. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did what?
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A) only addressed the issue of arresting protestors
B) only addressed the issue of voting
C) created the Department of Justice headed by Bobby Kennedy
D) gave the federal government broad powers in enforcing civil rights laws and
created the EEOC
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29. The time periods in the 1900’s when African
Americans moved North to get jobs in factories.
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A) Marathon Migration
B) Great Migration
C) National Exodus
D) Underground Railroad
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30. The plan by President Johnson to bring
economic prosperity and Civil Rights to the poor
and to Black Americans.
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A) Fair Deal
B) Great Society
C) New Deal
D) Even Steven
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31. This radical Black group supported the use of
violence in order to obtain Civil Rights. They
supported a revolution if necessary to bring about
equal rights.
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A) Freedom Riders
B) CORE
C) Black Panthers
D) SCLC
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32. This group first formed to push for Civil Rights
including the end to segregation. They used
peaceful protests such as sit-ins and freedom rides.
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A) union of Malcolm X and Martin L. King
B) Congress of Racial Equality
C) Black Panthers
D) Nation of Islam
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