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Quiz by prahlshayna, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by prahlshayna
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Question 1
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Nonviolence was a crucial element in the protests of the Civil Rights movement for all these reasons EXCEPT
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it prevented the protesters from destruction of property and similar illegal acts
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it was supported by important historical precedents
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it won and held the sympathy of the general public
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it gave the protesters the full protection of the First Amendment
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it contrasted with the violent methods of the segregationists
Question 2
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Which was NOT among Arkansas governor Orval Faubus responses to federal orders to desegregate the state's public schools?
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He posted the Arkansas National Guard at Little Rock High School to bar African-American students from entering
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He closed down Little Rock public schools for the 1958-1959 school year
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He petitioned the White House to overturn Brown w. Board of Education.
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He worked with others to establish private schools for white students
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He spoke out publicly against forced integration.
Question 3
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Which statement does NOT characterize the sit-ins of the early 1960s?
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the sit-ins were intended to desegregate lunch counters throughout the South
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The protesters remained in their seats for hours at a time when they were refused service.
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segregationists jeered at the protesters, threw things at them, and physically attacked them
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The Supreme Court repeatedly upheld the legality of the the sit-ins
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The sit-ins were the result of careful planning by experienced leaders of the Civil Rights movement.
Question 4
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Which is not one provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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It made segregation illegal in all public places.
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It overturned state laws forbidding marriage between African Americans and whites
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It banned racial, gender, religious, and ethnic discrimination by any employer
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It allowed the federal government to sue public school systems that did not comply with integration.
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It outlawed the creation of certain petty obstacles to voting in federal elections.
Question 5
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Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is especially symbolic in U.S. history for all these reasons EXCEPT
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King invoked the Declaration of Independence at the speech's climax
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King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, thus invoking the Emancipation Proclamation
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King alluded to Marian Anderson's historic 1939 concert
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King's appearance drew a huge, racially mixed audience of supporters of the Civil Rights movement
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King expressed his intention to run for president of the United States
Question 6
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What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides of 1961?
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to fund the legal defense of people arrested when they defied the segregated-seating policies on buses
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to protest the school busing movement that arose from attempts to integrate the public school system
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to force the interstate bus companies to abandon their whites-only hiring policies
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to integrate facilities in bus terminals on interstate bus routes
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to transport volunteers to the South to help register black voters
Question 7
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Which best describes the effect of the Black Power movement on the American middle class?
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The movement alienated the sympathy of the middle class.
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The movement was largely made up of middle-class people.
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The movement reinvigorated the support of the middle class.
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The movement angered the middle class by excluding women.
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The movement turned racial hostility into class warfare.
Question 8
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What was the significance of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of the 1950s?
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It led to a Supreme Court decision that segregation on public transit was unconstitutional.
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It was the first major legal victory of the movement.
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It directly inspired the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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It provoked Alabama segregationists into acts of illegal violence.
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It was responsible for desegregating public places.
Question 9
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Whose writings and philosophy were the primary influences on Martin Luther King's doctrine of nonviolent protest?
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Buddha
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Confucius
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Mohammed
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Joseph Stalin
Question 10
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Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in response to
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police violence against peaceful protesters in Selma, Alabama
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the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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incumbent president lyndon Johnson's defeat of Senator Barry Goldwater
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the formation of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
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a wave of race riots in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Newark
Question 11
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Which is NOT one step President Harry Truman took to show his support for civil rights?
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He integrated the U.S. military.
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He ended racial segregation in the federal bureaucracy.
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He signed the GI Bill of Rights into law.
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He signed the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act into law.
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He ordered the desegregation of the public schools.
Question 12
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All of the following prominent African Americans played major roles in the Civil Rights movement EXCEPT
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Medgar Evers
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Jesse Jackson
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Thurgood Marshall
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Clarence Thomas
Question 13
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What role did baseball's hiring of Jackie Robinson play in the Civil Rights movement?
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It provided a working example of integration to the general public on an everyday basis.
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It proved that African Americans were great athletes and great sportsmen.
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It placed baseball's notorious antitrust exemption in jeopardy.
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It equalized conditions between the major leagues and the Negro League
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It marked the first participation of black athletes on a U.S. Olympic team.
Question 14
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In Brown w Board of Education, the Supreme Court decided that
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the public school system could remain segregated as long as black schools continued to be equal in facilities to the white schools
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segregation could not be permitted in any educational institution in the United States
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African-American schools must be improved until they were truly equal to white schools
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all aspects of the U.S. government and the individual state governments must be desegregated, including the school system
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segregation in the public schools was unconstitutional, inherently discriminatory, and actively harmful to African Americans
Question 15
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Which best explains why many Black Muslims changed their names during the 1960s?
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They were determined to win the right to vote.
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They wanted to show their pride in their African ancestry.
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Islam required its adherents to take Arabic names
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Their old names had originally been those of their enslaved ancestors masters.
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They did not believe in nonviolent resistance to oppression
Question 16
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Why did the Black Panthers and the Black Power movement break away from the Civil Rights movement?
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They believed that the Republican Party would better represent their interests.
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They believed that the time for peaceful resistance had passed.
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They did not support the programs of the Great Society.
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They were outraged over the U.S. military's treatment of black soldiers and sailors.
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They resented the national attention being given to the women's movement.
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