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Study Guide Questions
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1.
When did slavery cease to exist in America?
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2.
The Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 are sometimes called the "___________________________."
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3.
What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
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4.
What did the 15th Amendment grant?
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5.
When did the Supreme Court rule that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional?
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6.
When was the "Plessy vs. Ferguson" case?
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7.
Who was Homer Plessy?
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8.
For what offense was Homer Plessy arrested?
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9.
What judge handed down a ruling in the case?
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10.
Plessy was found guilty of breaking the law of what state?
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11.
When Plessy took his case to the Supreme Court, the original decision was [ overturned/ upheld ].
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12.
What did the so-called "Jim Crow" laws legalize?
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13.
From where did the name, "Jim Crow" come?
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14.
Why did poll taxes and literacy tests exist?
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15.
What did the case known as "Cumming versus the County Board of Education" decide?
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16.
Effective leadership for a civil rights movement surfaced in what decade?
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17.
"Brown versus the Board of Education" ruled that "separate educational facilities are
_____________________________________________."
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18.
When did the "Brown versus the Board of Education" ruling take place?
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19.
Why was Rosa Parks arrested?
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20.
In what profession was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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21.
What did the Black leaders of Montgomery, Alabama decide to do to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks?
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22.
Where did the Arkansas National Guard go, to prevent Black students from attending school ?
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23.
Where was Joseph McNeill denied service?
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24.
Against what did the "freedom riders" protest?
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25.
Who was the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
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26.
Who escorted the student named in #1 to the university campus?
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27.
Two students were killed as the result of a riot that broke out because of Meredith's presence on campus. True or false?
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28.
Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead a protest in April of 1963?
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29.
How many people participated in the March on Washington?
When did this event take place?
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30.
What speech did King deliver during the March on Washington?
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31.
The March on Washington was the largest mass demonstration to ever take place in the United States. True or false?
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32.
The participants in the March on Washington were all Black, American citizens. True or false?
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33.
Who was the American president in 1964, when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act?
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34.
Any programs that discriminated because of race could no longer receive what, as a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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35.
What did the 24th Amendment ban?
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36.
Who forbade a 1965 march between Selma and Montgomery?
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37.
Was the march delayed as a result of the ban?
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38.
March 7, 1965 became known as "______________________________________." Why?
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39.
How long after the event named in #14 was the Voting Rights Act passed?
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40.
The Voting Rights Act outlawed the use of literacy tests as a "litmus test" for voters. True or false?
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41.
How many new Black voters were registered by the end of 1965?
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42.
Malcom X wanted Blacks to estrange themselves from White society, but he later changed his stance. True or false?
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43.
The "Black Panthers" advocated peaceful, civil disobdeience. True or false?
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44.
How did Dr. King, Jr. die? When did he die?
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45.
Who organized a protest by grape pickers in California in 1962?
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46.
When did American Indians seize the trading post at Wounded Knee?
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