In what year were women in the United States granted the right to vote?
a. 1776
b. 1860
c. 1914
d. 1920
Question 2Who was the young minister who emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement and inspired African Americans to use nonviolent resistance to overthrow their oppressors' unfair laws and practices?
a. Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. Malcolm X
c. Eldridge Cleaver
d. Emmitt Till
Question 3Which law came out of the Civil Rights Movement and banned discrimination in public facilities, education, employment, and in any agency receiving government funds?
a. 1964 Civil Rights Bill
b. 1965 Voting Rights Act
c. 1972 Equal Rights Amendment
d. 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act
Question 4In the early 20th century, _____ were passed that allowed all public facilities in the South to be segregated, under the principle of separate but equal.
a. emancipation proclamations Islam only
b. Black Codes atheism and Christianity
c. Jim Crow laws one of five major world religions
d. sharecropper fairness laws Catholicism and Hinduism
Question 5Shortly after World War II, the NAACP challenged the concept of separate but equal schooling in the courts. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that separate educational facilities are
a. a matter on which the American public should vote.
b. a matter for the states to decide.
c. inherently equal.
d. inherently unequal.
Question 6Which of the following was NOT an oppressive White response to Black emancipation immediately following the Civil War?
a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people.
b. The Ku Klux Klan and local vigilante groups conducted raids, lynchings, beatings, and burnings.
c. The courts were much more likely to send Blacks to prison than Whites.
d. Overt slavery was replaced with a more covert kind of slavery: sharecropping.
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