Paper 3 - Civil Rights Movements in the US

Question 1

Jim Crow Laws in the American South ensured _____.

Accepted Answer

Separation of white and black in public facilities

Question 2

Cesar Chavez organized the United Farm Workers in an effort to ____.

Accepted Answer

improve labor conditions for California farm workers

Question 3

With help from the NAACP, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled _____.

Accepted Answer

Segregated schools were inherently unequal, that laws segregating public schools were unconstitutional

Question 4

The NAACP, founded in 1909, worked mainly through ___ with a goal to chip away at Jim Crow.

Accepted Answer

Litigation

Question 5

MLK and the SCLC hoped to ___ in the Birmingham March in 1963.

Accepted Answer

attract a violent response from local authorities, gain media attention to inequality in Birmingham, "fill the jails"

Question 6

A Chicano Nationalist movement wanted ___ given back to Mexican-Americans for their own state.

Accepted Answer

the Mexican Cession

Question 7

The 1955-6 Montgomery Bus Boycott, started by Rosa Parks, resulted in Browder v. Gayle, which

Accepted Answer

determined segregated buses to be unconsitutional

Question 8

Using similar tactics as in Birmingham, King and SCLC marched on Selma in 1965 to ____.

Accepted Answer

Motivate Congress to pass a voting rights act, register black voters in Selma

Question 9

The Black Panthers, like Malcolm X, encourage ____.

Accepted Answer

Self-help in black communities

Question 10

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam advocated a philosophy of _____.

Accepted Answer

Black Supremacy, Black Nationalism

Question 11

In the early 1900s, Marcus Garvey founded the UNIA, whose main philosophy was _____.

Accepted Answer

Black Nationalism

Question 12

In the late 70s and 80s, after Roe v. Wade, the fight over women's rights largely became about

Accepted Answer

abortion

Question 13

Why did Malcolm X's message resonate with black youths in the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

They felt the need to respond to police brutality., They felt King's methods worked too slowly.

Question 14

Betty Friedan wrote _____, a book which is widely credited with inspiring the Women's Movement.

Accepted Answer

The Feminine Mystique

Question 15

Among other things, the Black Panthers advocated _____.

Accepted Answer

compensation for slavery, a UN-sponsored referendum for blacks to decide their fate, Black Nationalism

Question 16

King faced greater difficulty outside the South in places like Chicago because ____.

Accepted Answer

the problems facing blacks elsewhere were much deeper, black populations there were harder to mobilize, leaders there didn't react as violently as the South's

Question 17

De jure segregation existed in the American South up until the 1960s. What is that?

Accepted Answer

Segregation established by law

Question 18

Both the Women's and Chicano movements began as ___ before seeking general equality.

Accepted Answer

attempts at labor and employment equality

Question 19

The National Organization of Women was founded after the EEOC ____.

Accepted Answer

refused to enforce Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Question 20

In Birmingham, MLK gained the attention of President Kennedy and may have encouraged passage of

Accepted Answer

the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 21

Malcolm X advocated for many things, including _____.

Accepted Answer

violence in self-defense against police, for blacks to attain autonomy form white society, an ideal of self-help among black communities

Question 22

Martin Luther King created the SCLC because he felt ____.

Accepted Answer

A Christian organization might face less persecution

Question 23

President Truman proved sympathetic to black rights and made efforts to improve them, including

Accepted Answer

Creating a civil rights commission in 1946, ending segregation in the US military in 1948, Creating the Fair Employment Board in 1948

Question 24

SNCC and CORE began as peaceful, integrationist groups, but radicalized in the mid-1960s, even

Accepted Answer

excluding whites from membership

Question 25

Malcolm X criticized Martin Luther King Jr. because he felt King's methods _____.

Accepted Answer

only served to further subdue blacks, made blacks powerless against whites

Question 26

The 1896 case, ___, found that separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites were okay.

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 27

The 1964 Civil Rights Act, among other things, ____.

Accepted Answer

Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Banned discrimination in employment and unions, Forbade segregation in public accommodations

Question 28

"Third Wave Feminism" occurred in the 1990s and was focused on ____.

Accepted Answer

supporting women as both homemaker and full-time worker, ending sexual harassment in the work place

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