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Question 1 of 20

1. Question
What was the significance of the verdict in the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
- It maintained that segregation would remain in American’s public schools if the local communities voted in support of it.
- It proclaimed that the notion of “separate but equal” violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
- It required local municipalities to provide additional funding to ensure segregated schools were of equal quality.
- It required all local board of education decisions to be approved by outside overseers.
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Question 2 of 20

2. Question
How was the federal government involved in the integration of Little Rock, Arkansas’s Central High School?
- A federal court ruled that the governor had to admit the African American students. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the African American students into the school past angry protestors.
- President Eisenhower backed Arkansas governor Orval Faubus’s wish to delay integration due to the overwhelming public backlash.
- President Eisenhower approved a federal grant to essentially bribe the Arkansas governor to allow integration to happen smoothly.
- The federal government had little to do with the integration of Central High School other than the legal requirement that the school be integrated.
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Question 3 of 20

3. Question
What was the end result of the Montgomery bus boycott?
- The African American community in Montgomery eventually purchased and ran its own private bus company.
- The local bus companies voluntarily reversed their policies in an effort to bring back their African American customers.
- The Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation rules were unconstitutional and the boycott was lifted.
- The boycott ultimately had no effect on changing policies of segregation on public transportation.
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Question 4 of 20

4. Question
What types of protest methods did Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference advocate?
- Civil rights workers were instructed to take up acts of civil disobedience to protest unjust laws in nonviolent ways.
- Civil rights activists were told to fight for their rights by any means necessary.
- Civil rights workers were directed to vandalize and deface the properties of known racists.
- Civil rights activists were told to take no direct actions other than voting for progressive government leaders.
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Question 5 of 20

5. Question
How did the Freedom Riders seek to impact the Civil Rights Movement?
- Members of the Ku Klux Klan called themselves “Freedom Riders” and travelled throughout the American South capturing, torturing, and lynching African Americans.
- Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee traveled by horseback throughout the American South to protest unfair segregation laws pertaining to busses and trains. They called themselves “Freedom Riders”.
- Members from the Congress of Racial Equality called themselves “Freedom Riders” and rode busses into the American South to test the effectiveness of new anti-segregation laws pertaining to busses and interstate transportation.
- Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference called themselves “Freedom Riders” and rode to Washington D.C. to protest the fact that the federal anti-segregation laws were not being enforced.
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Question 6 of 20

6. Question
Which of the following best describes the process by which James Meredith was enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962?
- Meredith faced angry protests from students and community members, however the protests were fairly peaceful and subsided within a few days.
- Meredith was prevented from enrolling or attending the University of Mississippi in person due to the large protests and student opposition. Meredith was forced to complete his degree from home through a distance learning program.
- Due to the violent opposition to desegregating the school, Meredith had to be escorted by federal marshals in order to both enroll and complete his degree at the University of Mississippi.
- Surprisingly, Meredith faced hardly any opposition to his enrollment at the University of Mississippi.
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Question 7 of 20

7. Question
How did President Kennedy respond to the murder of NAACP official Medgar Evers in Jackson Mississippi in 1963?
- Kennedy gave an impassioned speech on national television to the American people promoting equality and an end to racial segregation.
- Kennedy personally drafted a letter of condolences to Evers’s widow.
- Kennedy proposed new laws ending segregation by the service industry and making discriminatory employment practices illegal.
- All of the above.
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Question 8 of 20

8. Question
What was President Kennedy’s political approach to addressing civil rights issues in America?
- Kennedy advocated equality for African Americans, but knew legislation would have to be handled carefully to get through the Southern Democrats in Congress.
- Kennedy used executive orders to enact groundbreaking civil rights laws without the need for Congress’s approval.
- Kennedy believed civil rights issues were best left to the individual states.
- Kennedy did not offer much leadership on civil rights issues.
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Question 9 of 20

9. Question
What was the objective of the march on Washington D.C. that was organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC in August of 1963?
- to violently protest the inaction of the federal government in civil rights matters
- to intimidate federal officials with one of the largest gathering of African Americans in history
- to demand reparations for the horrors and injustices of slavery
- to bring together Americans of all backgrounds in a peaceful demonstration of support for Kennedy’s civil rights bill
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Question 10 of 20

10. Question
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?
- It provided financial bonuses to states that opted to desegregate public schools and public offices.
- It ended racism in the United States.
- It outlawed discrimination based upon race, gender, religion, or ethnicity in both employment practices and public affairs.
- It required all government and business employers to hire one non-white employee for every three new hires.
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Question 11 of 20

11. Question
What was the main purpose of the SCLC’s march in Selma, Alabama in 1965?
- to address barriers that were still preventing African Americans from being able to vote
- to call for the arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent southern civil rights activists
- to confront the Selma school district’s refusal to integrate their schools
- to celebrate the success of the civil rights movement
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Question 12 of 20

12. Question
How did the Black Power movement differ from the civil rights efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his SCLC organization?
- The Black Power movement was unable to gain much support from the African American community, whereas the SCLC and Dr. King’s efforts were widely supported.
- The Black Power movement was more focused on separating from rather than integrating into what they felt was white American society.
- The Black Power movement did not have strong leadership.
- All of the above.
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Question 13 of 20

13. Question
Which of the following groups was responsible for organizing African Americans in armed opposition against the police?
- The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- The Ku Klux Klan
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- The Black Panther Party
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Question 14 of 20

14. Question
What was the reaction to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968?
- News of the assassination was slow to spread which muted the national response.
- The nation came together to peacefully mourn the loss; the vigils served to unite America across racial lines and calm the racial tensions in American society.
- Hundreds of American cities experienced violent and destructive riots.
- All of the above.
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Question 15 of 20

15. Question
How did activist Malcolm X evolve in his beliefs about how African Americans should advocate for themselves?
- Throughout his life, Malcolm X advocated that African Americans should take increasingly more radical and violent actions against authority figures and white America.
- Malcolm X abandoned his earlier racially charged notions of black supremacy and shifted to a focus on promoting self-determination and self-defense within the African American community.
- Malcolm X shifted his focus from a passionate call for civil disobedience to the encouragement acts of violence and aggression towards the American government.
- Malcolm X shifted from his initial beliefs in black supremacy to a push for full African American integration into American society.
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Question 16 of 20

16. Question
Which of the following is an example of how women saw gains in their rights and treatment during the 1960s and 1970s?
- The Equal Pay Act made it illegal for an employer to pay a woman less than a man for performing the same work.
- Congress added the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteeing equal rights to all Americans regardless of sex.
- Women were elected in such large numbers that they took the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.
- 1972 marked the first time more women were admitted to four-year colleges than men.
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Question 17 of 20

17. Question
What was the core issue raised by the strikes organized by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in the 1960s?
- The farmers stood with civil rights leaders in promoting increased access to legal and voting rights for minorities.
- The farmers pushed for better trade deals with foreign nations.
- The farmers wanted higher wages, safer working conditions, and a shorter work day.
- The farmers wanted federal funding to develop better and more efficient farming technologies.
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Question 18 of 20

18. Question
What major 1975 voting rights action helped grant increased political access to Hispanic Americans?
- Hispanic American citizens were legally allowed to vote in American federal elections.
- Hispanic Americans citizens were allowed to run for political office for the first time.
- Election and voting materials had to be made available in other languages to accommodate Americans who were not fluent in English.
- American immigrants from the Caribbean as well as Central and South America only had to be residents of the United States for 2 months before being offered citizenship.
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Question 19 of 20

19. Question
What progress did Native Americans make in obtaining stronger legal, political, and economic rights during the 1960s?
- Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 which guaranteed Native Americans’ protection under the United States Constitution and gave Native Americans legal authority over their reservation lands.
- Native Americans organized under the National Congress of American Indians to help protect their culture and push for political rights.
- Native American rights groups like the American Indian Movement staged protests and took actions to bring attention to their poor living conditions and lack of equality in American society.
- All of the above.
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Question 20 of 20

20. Question
Which of the following groups advocated for and benefitted from the passage of the Rehabilitation Acts of 1972 and 1973?
- Native Americans
- African Americans
- disabled people
- unemployed farmers
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1. Question

What was the significance of the verdict in the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?

2. Question

How was the federal government involved in the integration of Little Rock, Arkansas’s Central High School?

3. Question

What was the end result of the Montgomery bus boycott?

4. Question

What types of protest methods did Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference advocate?

5. Question

How did the Freedom Riders seek to impact the Civil Rights Movement?

6. Question

Which of the following best describes the process by which James Meredith was enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962?

7. Question

How did President Kennedy respond to the murder of NAACP official Medgar Evers in Jackson Mississippi in 1963?

8. Question

What was President Kennedy’s political approach to addressing civil rights issues in America?

9. Question

What was the objective of the march on Washington D.C. that was organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC in August of 1963?

10. Question

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

11. Question

What was the main purpose of the SCLC’s march in Selma, Alabama in 1965?

12. Question

How did the Black Power movement differ from the civil rights efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his SCLC organization?

13. Question

Which of the following groups was responsible for organizing African Americans in armed opposition against the police?

14. Question

What was the reaction to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968?

15. Question

How did activist Malcolm X evolve in his beliefs about how African Americans should advocate for themselves?

16. Question

Which of the following is an example of how women saw gains in their rights and treatment during the 1960s and 1970s?

17. Question

What was the core issue raised by the strikes organized by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in the 1960s?

18. Question

What major 1975 voting rights action helped grant increased political access to Hispanic Americans?

19. Question

What progress did Native Americans make in obtaining stronger legal, political, and economic rights during the 1960s?

20. Question

Which of the following groups advocated for and benefitted from the passage of the Rehabilitation Acts of 1972 and 1973?