GED SS Vocab Civil Rights

In the US, the 1950s and 1960s saw a movement for Civil Rights for which people group?

Native Americans

Blacks

Asians

Australians

In the court case of "Plessy vs. Ferguson" what ruling influenced civil rights?

The concept of "separate but equal"; black people were separate because of skin color but equal every other way and entitled to "equal protection of the laws"

Equal voting rights

Equal education rights

Jobs for women

Jim Crow laws are a type of law that did what?

State and local laws that ordered racial segregation

Laws that ordered limited voting rights

Laws that limited black population in cities

Limited farming and hunting of crows

Civil Disobedience, a form of breaking the law to show how their injustice was illustrated by:

Sit-ins

Freedom Rides

Freedom Marches

Bus boycotts

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was authorized by which US President?

JF Kennedy

Lyndon B Johnson

Richard B Nixon

Gerald Ford

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 focused on what?

Outlawing practices like literacy tests to keep blacks from voting

Approving voting for all of legal age

Forbid blacks from voting

Only encouraged voting in certain places

Martin Luther King Jr was

A minister who pushed for civil rights

Encouraged non-violent forms of protest

Was assassinated for his beliefs and actions

Helped form CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) and SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee)

The desegregation of schools in the Southern US was met with

Violence

Great rejoicing by all

Called for involvement of US Marshalls for student protection

The arrest of blacks

The Selma to Montgomery March was an example of what?

A freedom march

A mass protest for voting rights

A mass protest that was met with violence

Was reattempted with federal protection

The fight for civil rights actually started

Right after the Civil War, during Reconstruction when blacks were trying to find their new place in the world

During the 1950s

Was marked in 1896 with Plessy vs Ferguson

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus

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