Deck 6: The Struggle for Civil Rights

Question 1

Once citizens have won their rights, public attention shifts to

A) ignoring them.
B) codifying them.
C) protecting them.
D) changing them.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

When did Congress outlaw sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act?

A) 1964
B) 1966
C) 1965
D) 1968

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Members of which minority group were forbidden to become American citizens?

A) Blacks
B) Women
C) Chinese
D) All of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

How many Black mayors were there in 1965?

A) Seven
B) Five
C) Three
D) Zero

Question 5

Asians have won full rights, but which minority group has not?

A) Puerto Ricans
B) Native Americans
C) Blacks
D) Women

Question 6

African Americans have a life expectancy _______ years shorter than that of whites.

A) five
B) ten
C) three
D) two

Question 7

What was the number of Black mayors in 2021?

A) 600+
B) 489
C) 324
D) 82

Question 8

What is the poverty rate among white Americans today?

A) 5 percent
B) 8 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 12 percent

Question 9

What is the poverty rate among Hispanic Americans today?

A) 15 percent
B) 17 percent
C) 19 percent
D) 33 percent

Question 10

What is the poverty rate among Black Americans today?

A) 21 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 17 percent
D) 12 percent

Question 11

What is the poverty rate among Native Americans today?

A) 10 percent
B) 28 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 25 percent

Question 12

How many women had won a U.S. Senate seat in their own right forty years ago?

A) One
B) Five
C) Seven
D) Twelve

Question 13

How many women serve in the Senate today?

A) Thirty-three
B) Fifty
C) Twenty-six
D) Ten

Question 14

How many same-sex marriages were legally performed in the U.S. in 2003?

A) 2
B) 0
C) 15
D) Over 100

Question 15

Women won voting rights in most _______ states a half-century before Congress finally endorsed women's suffrage nationally.

A) eastern
B) western
C) midwestern
D) northern

Question 16

What rules issued by the president have the force of law but do not require congressional approval?

A) Presidential orders
B) Executive orders
C) White House decrees
D) None of the above

Question 17

Which president desegregated the army in 1948?

A) Wilson
B) Roosevelt
C) Ford
D) Truman

Question 18

In 2012, Barack Obama signed an executive order protecting

A) undocumented children.
B) resident aliens.
C) legal immigrants.
D) Native Americans.

Question 19

Few groups in American history have suffered worse treatment than African Americans. Which of the following horrific actions did they experience?

A) Men and women chained in the holds of slave ships
B) Lynched
C) Murdered for challenging their oppression
D) All of the above

Question 20

What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

A) Slavery was abolished in the Louisiana Territory.
B) A line was drawn through the Louisiana Territory: territories north of the line, except Missouri, would be free; everything south of the line would be open to slavery.
C) Slavery would be allowed only in some states in the South.
D) None of the above

Question 21

What was one result of the Compromise of 1850?

A) The decision of whether to permit slavery was turned over to the people in the territories.
B) The decision of whether to permit slavery was turned over to local governments.
C) Slavery was prohibited in the western states.
D) None of the above

Question 22

Under the Compromise of 1850, the residents of certain territories would exercise _______ to decide whether the territories would be slave or free.

A) slavery sovereignty
B) popular determinism
C) popular sovereignty
D) territorial sovereignty

Question 23

Under the Compromise of 1850, which of the following states was permitted to enter as a free state?

A) Kansas
B) Nebraska
C) California
D) None of the above

Question 24

Which 1857 Supreme Court decision was explicitly rejected by the Republican Party, leading to the party's rise to national prominence?

A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Dred Scott v. Sandford
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) None of the above

Question 25

In which war did more Americans lose their lives than in all other American wars put together?

A) World War I
B) Civil War
C) Korean War
D) Vietnam War

Question 26

The Fifteenth Amendment excluded which group?

A) Women
B) Blacks
C) Chinese
D) None of the above

Question 27

Southern state and local governments reacted to slaves' freedom by passing

A) anti-sovereignty codes.
B) nonwhite codes.
C) Black regulations.
D) Black codes.

Question 28

For a time, Congress supported the former slaves. With _______, it tried to rebuild the South around a vision of racial justice.

A) the Fourteenth Amendment
B) Reconstruction
C) the Civil Rights Act
D) the separate but equal doctrine

Question 29

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 guaranteed African Americans which of the same rights as white Americans?

A) Property rights
B) Right to participate in politics
C) Right to freedom from racial discrimination in hotels, restaurants, and theaters
D) All of the above

Question 30

_______ required voters to read and interpret a state constitution passage. In reality, they were a way to restrict Black suffrage.

A) Literacy tests
B) Intelligence tests
C) Black voters' tests
D) Grandfather clauses

Question 31

In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, ruling that Congress did not have the authority to stop private discrimination. In what year did Congress finally find a way around this barrier?

A) 1901
B) 2011
C) 1964
D) 1887

Question 32

Under the _______, the southern white majority built a system of segregation that imposed different rules for Blacks and whites.

A) Ku Klux Klan
B) James Crow laws
C) Jim Crow laws
D) separate but equal laws

Question 33

In what year did the Supreme Court rule, in Plessy v. Ferguson, that there was nothing inherently discriminatory in separating the races?

A) 1843
B) 1851
C) 1896
D) 1954

Question 34

The era of civil rights gave way to a desire for

A) legal solutions.
B) state solutions.
C) law and order.
D) riots and protests.

Question 35

What was the plot of the 1915 movie Birth of a Nation?

A) Social equality is achieved for all in America.
B) Lust-filled Black men, backed by federal troops, menace white women until the KKK saves the day.
C) The framers write the Constitution.
D) The Puritans set off on a quest for religious freedom.

Question 36

Beginning in the 1910s, many African Americans left southern agriculture and moved to more lucrative factory jobs in northern cities-a journey known as the

A) Northern Migration.
B) Extradition.
C) Great Migration.
D) Great Movement.

Question 37

In 1909, Black leaders formed the NAACP. What does this abbreviation stand for?

A) National Association for the Advancement of Celebrated People
B) National Association for the Advancement of Christian Patrons
C) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D) National Association for the Advancement of Christian People

Question 38

In 1961, civil rights activists came up with a new tactic. Groups of young people known as _______ rented Greyhound buses to protest segregated interstate bus lines and terminals.

A) Desegregation Riders
B) Freedom Riders
C) Free Riders
D) Freedom Activists

Question 39

Which of the following activists was instrumental in the success of the civil rights movement?

A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Rosa Parks
C) A. Philip Randolph
D) All of the above

Question 40

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in _______ in Washington.

A) 1963
B) 1968
C) 1995
D) 1866

Question 41

The Civil Rights Act was passed in what year?

A) 1991
B) 1962
C) 1964
D) 1865

Question 42

Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in what year?

A) 1965
B) 1992
C) 1967
D) 1866

Question 43

Which two Black groups rejected the nonviolent protest strategy used by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

A) Black Power and Black Sovereignty
B) Black Panthers and Nation of Islam
C) Blacks United and SNNC
D) None of the above

Question 44

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave an important speech. What was this speech?

A) I Want to Be Free
B) We Are All God's Children
C) Our God Is Marching On
D) I Have a Dream

Question 45

Riots broke out in August 1965 in what area?

A) Watts
B) Newark
C) Detroit
D) Harlem

Question 46

What is the American ideal often expressed as equality of opportunity?

A) Give all individuals a fair chance at achieving success with the aid of government assistance.
B) Give all individuals a fair chance at achieving success with economic aid from their parents.
C) Give all individuals a fair chance at achieving success.
D) All of the above

Question 47

When did the new concept of affirmative action emerge in America?

A) 1850s and 1860s
B) 1960s and 1970s
C) 1970s and 1980s
D) 1980s and 1990s

Question 48

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the _______ to ensure that defense contractors did not practice racial discrimination.

A) Social Security Administration
B) American Customs Board
C) Fair Employment Practices Committee
D) Equal Opportunity Commission

Question 49

What was school busing?

A) A way to reduce traffic by driving students to school in buses
B) A way to help poor Black children get to school
C) A way to achieve racial integration by driving students to schools in other neighborhoods
D) None of the above

Question 50

One way of segregating schools was through

A) school busing.
B) school choice.
C) moving people out of their neighborhoods.
D) creating central schools for all students.

Question 51

A result of the "new Jim Crow" was _______ for African Americans.

A) easier voting
B) mass incarceration
C) more job opportunities
D) renewed segregation

Question 52

_______ men are five times as likely to be in jail as whites.

A) African American
B) Latino
C) Asian
D) Native American

Question 53

Which term refers to the striking degree to which jail time falls disproportionately on minorities?

A) New Jim Crow
B) Minority incarceration crisis
C) Jim Crow revival
D) None of the above

Question 54

In the nineteenth century, a woman could

A) vote.
B) serve on a jury.
C) enter into a contract.
D) not do any of the above.

Question 55

The first convention for women's suffrage was held at Seneca Falls, New York, in what year?

A) 1848
B) 1891
C) 1898
D) 1937

Question 56

After the Civil War, feminist leaders fought to have women included in the Fifteenth Amendment right to vote. Who was one of these feminist leaders?

A) Carrie Chapman Catt
B) Phyllis Schlafly
C) Rosa Parks
D) Lily Ledbetter

Question 57

Which organization was spawned by the women's movement?

A) Women's Christian Temperance Union
B) American Woman Suffrage Association
C) National American Woman Suffrage Association
D) All of the above

Question 58

By 1916, an effective political campaign had won full suffrage for women in fifteen states and partial suffrage in twenty-three others. Women voted in every state of the West and Midwest except

A) Utah.
B) Wyoming.
C) Idaho.
D) New Mexico.

Question 59

President Woodrow Wilson put aside his condescension and supported women's suffrage as

A) "A wartime measure"
B) "The morally right thing to do"
C) "A form of appeasement"
D) All of the above

Question 60

In what year was the first woman elected to Congress?

A) 1936
B) 1926
C) 1916
D) 2016

Question 61

Hispanics make up what percentage of the American population?

A) 10
B) 18
C) 27
D) 45

Question 62

Latinos adapted many of the tactics of the Black civil rights movement to their own needs. They formed which of the following organizations in 1929?

A) League of United Hispanic American Citizens
B) League of United Latin American Citizens
C) United Latin American League
D) Hispanic League of Freedom

Question 63

Immigrants often trigger the same fears in Americans. Which of the following corresponds to those fears?

A) They will undermine American values and culture.
B) They will remain loyal to their own languages and their home countries.
C) They will take away jobs.
D) All of the above

Question 64

Hispanics were already living in what part of the nation when it became part of the United States in 1848?

A) Southwest
B) North
C) Deep South
D) Midwest

Question 65

Hispanics form a potentially powerful political block that has recently been voting strongly Democratic-with the notable exception of which Latino group?

A) Mexican Americans
B) Puerto Rican Americans
C) Cuban Americans
D) Salvadoran Americans

Question 66

The great surge in Hispanic political demonstrations may reflect which trend?

A) The rapid growth of the Latino population
B) A sense of shared identity within that population
C) An increasing identification with the American homeland
D) All of the above

Question 67

Which of the following groups have the highest education level and the highest median personal income among American population groups?

A) European Americans
B) African Americans
C) Asian Americans
D) Hispanics

Question 68

Chinese people were ineligible for citizenship as a result of legislation passed in

A) 1862.
B) 1882.
C) 1902.
D) 1912.

Question 69

The Chinese Exclusion Act was extended in 1917 to include

A) Italians.
B) all natives of Asia.
C) Russians.
D) Southern Europeans.

Question 70

The _______, passed in 1882, declared _______ immigrants ineligible for citizenship.

A) Japanese Exclusion Act, Japanese
B) Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese
C) Vietnamese Exclusion Act, Vietnamese
D) Korean Exclusion Act, Korean

Question 71

After the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, President Roosevelt ordered the army to round up Japanese Americans and place them in internment camps. What did they lose as a result of this act?

A) Their liberty
B) Their jobs
C) Their property and their bank accounts
D) All of the above

Question 72

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, what happened to Japanese Americans?

A) They were deported.
B) They were placed in internment camps.
C) They were sent to the East Coast.
D) They were drafted.

Question 73

In the 1880s San Francisco had separate _______ for Chinese Americans.

A) housing
B) taxes
C) schools
D) governments

Question 74

The New Jim Crow is the title of a book by

A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Lyndon Johnson.
C) A. Philip Randolph.
D) Michelle Alexander.

Question 75

By the time the United States stretched from coast to coast, less than _______ million of the original 10 million Native Americans remained alive.

A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7

Question 76

In 1831, the Supreme Court ruled that Indian tribes were _______, meaning essentially that they were a separate people without the rights of an independent nation.

A) "domestic indigenous tribes"
B) "domestic dependent nations"
C) "separate domestic nations"
D) "separate tribal nations"

Question 77

The civil rights protests inspired some Native Americans, along with many other groups, to organize a political movement. What is one such Native American movement?

A) American Indian Sovereignty Movement
B) American Indian United Movement
C) American Indian Movement
D) American Indian Justice Movement

Question 78

Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act benefited people with disabilities. Which piece of legislation did this bill borrow from?

A) The Civil Rights Act of 1964
B) The Constitution
C) The Bill of Rights
D) The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 79

The movement for same-sex rights began with a riot when, in 1969, police raided a gay bar named the Stonewall Inn in what city?

A) San Francisco
B) New York City
C) Los Angeles
D) Salt Lake City

Question 80

When did the American Psychiatric Association remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders?

A) 1949
B) 1961
C) 1973
D) 1999