Civil Rights



Civil Rights

Matching

1. The Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” did not violate the 14th Amendment, upholding the “Jim Crow” laws of the era.

2. Prohibited the states from taxing agencies of the federal government.

3. Supreme Court decision that segregated schools are unequal and must desegregate.

4. This established the power of the federal courts to declare laws unconstitutional “judicial review”.

5. The school did not have a gymnasium, cafeteria or teachers' restrooms. Teachers and students did not have desks or blackboards, and due to overcrowding, some students had to take classes in an immobilized, decrepit school bus parked outside the main school building. The school's requests for additional funds were denied by the all-white school board. The case was done by Oliver Hill.

a. McCulloch v. Maryland

b. Davis vs. County School Board of Prince Edward County

c. Brown v. Board of Education

d. Marbury v. Madison

e. Plessy v. Ferguson

Multiple Choice

6. He was a NAACP Legal Defense Team leader and later a member of the United States Supreme Court.

a. Oliver Cromwell

b. Thurgood Marshall

c. Oliver Hill

d. Mickey Redmond

7. How did Virginia respond to the Brown decision?

a. Followed the new law to the letter

b. Work around it by counter sewing

c. Massive Resistance and the closing some schools

d. By having the state over come the issue of race by opening private schools that all could attend.

8. The march on _____________ helped influence public opinion to support civil rights legislation and demonstrated the power of non-violent, mass protest.

a. Richmond

b. Montgomery

c. Washington

d. New York

9. ___________ was one of the major leaders on this march.

a. Malcolm Little

b. Stocky Carmichael

c. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

d. Lyndon Johnson

10. What year did this march happen?

a. 1963

b. 1964

c. 1961

d. 1960

11. The act prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, gender and it also desegregated public accommodations.

a. Rights of the People Act of 1964

b. Civil Rights Act of 1964

c. Voting Rights Act of 1965

d. Equal Rights Act of 1966

12. He was a member of the NAACP Legal Defense Team in Virginia.

a. Oliver Cromwell

b. Thurgood Marshall

c. Oliver Hill

d. Mickey Redmond

13. The act outlawed literacy tests and federal registrars were sent to the South to register voters. The act resulted in an increase in African American voters.

a. Rights of the People Act of 1964

b. Civil Rights Act of 1964

c. Voting Rights Act of 1965

d. Equal Rights Act of 1966

14. ________ was president that played an important role in the passage of these acts.

a. Dwight Eisenhower

b. John Kennedy

c. Lyndon Johnson

d. Richard Nixon

Matching

15. “I have a dream” speech

16. “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

17. “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”

18. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

19. “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

a. Abraham Lincoln

b. Dr. Martin Luther King

c. Patrick Henry

d. John Kennedy

e. Franklin Roosevelt

20. Slaves will equal part of a person in the counting for the House of Rep.

21. The United States would regard as a threat to its own peace and safety any attempt by European powers to impose their system on any independent state in the Western Hemisphere. The United States would not interfere in European affairs.

22. This drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below, except that slavery was allowed in Missouri, north of the line.

23. California entered as a free state, while the new Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own and of the Fugitive Slave Act was added.

24. The Reconstruction period ended following the extremely close presidential election of 1876. In return for support in the Electoral College vote from Southern Democrats, the Republicans agreed to end the military occupation of the South.

a. Monroe Doctrine (1823)

b. Compromise of 1877

c. Compromise of 1850

d. The Missouri Compromise (1820)

e. Three fifth Compromise

Review (Multiple choice)

25. _____________believed that since secession was illegal, Confederate governments in the Southern states were illegitimate and the states had never really left the Union.

a. Jefferson Davis

b. Thaddeus Stevens

c. Abraham Lincoln

d. Stephen Douglas

26. The assassination of Lincoln was done by ____________.

a. John Wilkes Booth

b. Lee Harvey Oswald

c. Charles Gateau

d. Leon Frank Czolgosz

27. ________________ also believed in aggressively guaranteeing voting and other civil rights to African Americans.

a. Republicans

b. Democrats

c. Radical Republicans

d. Bull Moses

28. They clashed repeatedly with Lincoln’s successor as President, ___________, over the issue of civil rights for freed slaves, eventually impeaching him, but failing to remove him from office.

a. Andrew Johnson

b. Ulysses S. Grant

c. Rufford B. Hayes

d. James Garfield

29. ____________ was the one that abolished permanently slavery in the United States.

a. 10th Amendment

b. 14th Amendment

c. 15th Amendment

d. 13th Amendment

30. In return for support in the electoral college vote from Southern Democrats, the Republicans agreed to end the military occupation of the South. Known as the ________________, this enabled former Confederates who controlled the Democratic Party to regain power.

a. The Missouri Compromise

b. Compromise of 1877

c. The Great Compromise

d. The Compromise of 1890

31. After Reconstruction the door was opened for “____________” and began a long period in which African Americans in the South were denied the full rights of American citizenship.

a. Jim Crow Era

b. Klu Klux Klan

c. 14th Amendment

d. Separate but equal

32. The ___________states were left embittered and devastated emotionally/ economically by the Civil war.

a. Northern

b. Western

c. Southern

d. Southwest

33. The _______________ and Midwest emerged with strong and growing industrial economies, laying the foundation for the sweeping industrialization of the nation in the next half-century.

a. North

b. West

c. South

d. Southwest

34. The completion of the ________________________ soon after the war ended intensified the westward movement of settlers into the states between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean.

a. Erie Canal

b. Homestead Act of 1862

c. Transcontinental Railroad

d. Chisholm Trail

35. Many Americans had to rebuild their lives after the Civil War and moved west to take advantage of the _________________, which gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm the land.

a. Erie Canal

b. Homestead Act of 1862

c. Transcontinental Railroad

d. Chisholm Trail

36. ________________ and African Americans, in particular, moved west to seek new opportunities after the Civil War.

a. Northerners

b. Easterners

c. Westerners

d. Southerners

37. During late 1800’s immigration, most immigrants were from Europe entered America through _________ in New York harbor.

a. Angel Island

b. Gwan Island

c. Ellis Island

d. Mackinac Island

38. Immigrants began the process of assimilation into what was termed the American “_______________.”

a. Melting pot

b. Wilmot Proviso

c. Manifest Destiny

d. Emancipation

39. Mounting resentment led Congress to limit immigration, through the _________________________.

a. Immigration Act of 1898

b. Irish Exclusion Act of 1887

c. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

d. Italian Exclusion Act of 1891

40. Immigrant working families often lived in harsh conditions crowded into ____________ and slums.

a. Ghettoes

b. Slag’s

c. Projects

d. Tenements

41. _________________ was a process used to harden steel.

a. Bessemer steel process

b. Pittsburg Steel process

c. Iron Maiden

d. Coal Fusion

42. ___________ invented the light bulb, electricity as a source of power and light.

a. Henry Ford

b. Alexander Graham Bell

c. George and Orville Wright

d. Thomas Edison

43. _______ invented the airplane.

a. Henry Ford

b. Alexander Graham Bell

c. George and Orville Wright

d. Thomas Edison

44. ________ was an Industrial leader in steel.

a. Cornelius Vanderbilt

b. Andrew Carnegie

c. J.P. Morgan

d. John D. Rockefeller

45. ____________ was the inventor of the telephone.

a. Henry Ford

b. Alexander Graham Bell

c. George and Orville Wright

d. Thomas Edison

46. This person was known for his advances in the assemble line.

a. Henry Ford

b. Alexander Graham Bell

c. George and Orville Wright

d. Thomas Edison

47. ________ was an Industrial leader in oil (Standard Oil).

a. Cornelius Vanderbilt

b. Andrew Carnegie

c. J.P. Morgan

d. John D. Rockefeller

48. ________ was an Industrial leader in Railroad.

a. Cornelius Vanderbilt

b. Andrew Carnegie

c. J.P. Morgan

d. John D. Rockefeller

49. Government policies of _____________ (staying out of business) capitalism and special considerations.

a. Laissez-faire

b. Melting pot

c. Wilmot Proviso

d. Manifest Destiny

50. African Americans looked to the courts to safeguard their rights. In ______________, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” did not violate the 14th Amendment.

a. Plessy v. Ferguson

b. Brown v Board of Education

c. Marbury v. Madison

d. McCulloch v. Maryland

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