The Road to Civil Rights

Question 1

Jim Crow laws…

Accepted Answer

Allowed for legal discrimination against African Americans

Question 2

No groups opposed civil rights.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 became a law under which president?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 4

Who were the leaders of the Civil Rights movement?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers

Question 5

What is segregation?

Accepted Answer

When one group is kept separate from another

Question 6

In Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court ruled that…

Accepted Answer

Racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Question 7

Which groups opposed the civil rights movement?

Accepted Answer

White citizen councils, Dixiecrats, Ku Klux Klan

Question 8

Activists used many strategies including…

Accepted Answer

Sit-ins, Marches, Court cases, Boycotts

Question 9

Which case made laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Loving v. Virginia

Question 10

The 24th Amendment outlawed poll taxes. What are poll taxes?

Accepted Answer

A tax linked with the right to vote

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