Civil Rights Era STAAR Review Quiz

Question 1

Civil Rights Act of 1964...

Accepted Answer

No discrimination based on a person's race, color, sex, religion, etc.

Question 2

Mendez V. Westminster gave Mexican American children equal rights in 1946.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What amendment abolished slavery?

Accepted Answer

13th

Question 4

Edgewooed I.S.D V. Kirby ruled that Texas public school finance system was unconstitutional.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

How long did the Civil Rights Movement last?

Accepted Answer

1954-1968

Question 6

What is a sit in?

Accepted Answer

Sit ins took place in places like restaurants., A method of protest that was used to fight segregation., Was a nonviolent form of protest., Most people who performed sit ins were hurt by others.

Question 7

What is the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

Migration of African Americans to Northern Cities starting in 1910.

Question 8

What was the Chicano Movement?

Accepted Answer

A Civil Rights movement for Mexican Americans for farmer andpoliticalright

Question 9

Which of the following were the Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes?

Accepted Answer

Laws used to encourage segregation and discrimination., Laws used to restrict African American Freedom in the South

Question 10

What was the SCLC? (Southern Christian Leadership Conference).

Accepted Answer

A group led by MLK Jr., Wanted to attack inequality and injustice., Used nonviolent methods.

Question 11

Civil Right Act of 1968

Accepted Answer

Sometimes called the Fair Housing Act., Expanded on the previous civil rights act., prohibited discrimination.

Question 12

Desegregation...

Accepted Answer

The reversal of all the process Civil Rights groups made.

Question 13

Sweatt V. Painter ruled...

Accepted Answer

Texas state constitution prohibited integrated education., Supreme Court ruled creating segregated schools was unconstitutional.

Question 14

What does Black Power mean?

Accepted Answer

A term for those of African descent struggling for self-determination., Emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black politics and culture...

Question 15

What are Freedom Riders?

Accepted Answer

People who traveled South to protest the refusal to integrate bus terminals

Question 16

A filibuster is a procedure used to extend debate to slow down a proposal or prevent a proposal from succeeding entirely

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

What did Brown V. Board of Education do?

Accepted Answer

Made segregation in schools illegal

Question 18

Whats Affirmative action?

Accepted Answer

Action that takes one's background into consideration to benefit minorities

Question 19

Who were the Black Panthers?

Accepted Answer

Practiced civil disobedience and refused to obey some laws, The Blacks panthers were a group created to protect black communities.

Question 20

What was the decision of Wisconsin V. Yoder?

Accepted Answer

Gave parents the right to educate kids outside of public schools.

Question 21

What was the decision of White V. Regester?

Accepted Answer

1970 Created single - member districts for Texas county, city council, etc.

Question 22

What is the Ku Klux Klan or K.K.K. for short?

Accepted Answer

A group that opposes Civil Rights and progress made by minorities.

Question 23

United Farm Workers...

Accepted Answer

An organization that advocated for Mexican American farmer rights, Also co-founded by Dolores Huerta who would advocate for other Civil rights, Founded by Cesar Chavez

Question 24

The Chicano Mural Movement was what exactly?

Accepted Answer

Advocated for all Mexican Americans through art., A movement started by Mexican American artists., Murals were painted on walls using Diego Rivera as a model.

Question 25

Montgomery Bus Boycott...

Accepted Answer

Was organized by MLK Jr., Protested the arrest of Rosa Parks.

Question 26

What was the decision of Hernandez V. Texas?

Accepted Answer

Decided that all racial groups had equal protection under the 14th amendmen

Question 27

Describe MLK Jr. (Martin Luther King Junior).

Accepted Answer

Organized the March on Washington and gave the "I have a Dream" speech., A civil rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests., Wrote the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Question 28

Who was Malcolm X?

Accepted Answer

Influenced the black power movement, A black Muslim leader, Wanted separation for African Americans

Question 29

What was the decision in Plessy V. Ferguson?

Accepted Answer

It said that it was okay to segregate. "Separate but equal."

Question 30

What was NAACP

Accepted Answer

An African American Civil Rights organization.

Question 31

What did CORE do? (Congress of Racial Equality)

Accepted Answer

Participated in the Freedom Rides., Organized sit ins, worked on desegregating public accommodations in the North

Question 32

What did AIM do?

Accepted Answer

Temporarily occupied some monuments like Wounded Knee., They were founded to gain respect for native heritage and to gaincivilright

Question 33

What was the Southern Manifesto?

Accepted Answer

A manifesto signed by 99 politicians in opposition to integration.

Question 34

Did the 24th Amendment Abolish poll Tax?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

What did Title IX do?

Accepted Answer

Prohibited discrimination against girls in federally funded schools

Question 36

Who was Ida B. Wells?

Accepted Answer

Journalist who documented lynching and was an early leader for Civil Rights

Question 37

Which civi action demonstrates the most fundamental responsibility of citizens in a democracy?

Accepted Answer

Voting in a presidential election.

Question 38

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). What did it do?

Accepted Answer

Coordinated student sit ins, led the charge against segregation and discrimination

Question 39

Who was Cesar Chavez?

Accepted Answer

Helped organize United Farm Workers and created the slogan "Is se puede.", An American farm worker.

Question 40

What was the decision of Tinker V. Des Moines?

Accepted Answer

1965 Prohibition against the wearing of armbands in public school.

Question 41

Who was Hector P. Garcia?

Accepted Answer

A surgeon, Founder of the G.I. Forum, A WW2 Veteran

Question 42

Which amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 43

What Native American movement used "Red Power" as their slogan?

Accepted Answer

AIM

Question 44

What did the Voting Rights act of 1965 do?

Accepted Answer

Prohibited discrimination in voting.

Question 45

What amendment gave all citizens equal protections no matter their skin color?

Accepted Answer

14th

Question 46

What was NAACP's mission?

Accepted Answer

To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality for all

Question 47

Who was Betty Friedan?

Accepted Answer

Founded NOW (National Organization for Women)., An author and civil rights leader, Sparked a second wave of feminism with the book The Feminine Mystique.

Civil Rights Era STAAR Review Quiz

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Civil Rights Era STAAR Review Quiz

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