Civil Rights and the 60's
During the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, how did the images of brutality suffered by African American civil rights protesters, many of whom were school children, affect the nation?
Birmingham encouraged social and legal change in the United States, leading to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
How did the Brown v. Board of Education decision influence the Civil Rights movement?
By providing a judicial basis for achieving equality in other areas
The federal government responded to which issue by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Discrimination by employers
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus played what role in the Little Rock Nine incident of 1959?
Governor Faubus called upon the states National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School, directly opposing the ruling of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.
Which of the following was a direct result of the civil rights movement?
Increased political participation by minority groups
How does the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona continue to affect society?
People accused of a crime must be informed of their constitutional rights
After the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, why did African Americans continue to experience political and economic oppression?
Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.
A student learning about U.S. history is instructed to write a paper about W. E. B. Du Bois and race relations in the United States. Which of the following facts would be most relevant to the student's assignment?
The NAACP was organized to help secure full legal equality for minority citizens.
Which of the following provides evidence to support President Obama's assertion that "America became more free and more fair"?
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Which government action was intended to ensure that African Americans could exercise their Fifteenth Amendment rights?
The passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson —
created a legal justification for segregation laws
In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education bolstered the civil rights movement by -
declaring segregation illegal.
A major goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society was to -
end poverty in the United States.
The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was to —
end segregation based on race.
President Eisenhower exercised his federal authority in an effort to —
enforce a ruling to desegregate public schools
One way in which the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the Great Society are similar is that these programs —
increased government commitment to the well-being of the people.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated —
literacy tests as prerequisites for voting
President John F. Kennedy responded to reports that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites in Cuba by —
ordering a naval blockade of Cuba
During the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panther Party's tactics differed from those of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., because the Black Panthers called for —
the use of armed resistance if necessary
