Civil Rights: Challenges and Changes — Quiz

Question 1

Which area of society did the federal government legally desegregate first?

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the military

Question 2

How was the integration of schools resisted, particularly in the South? Choose three correct answers.

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Many white families pulled their children out of school.; Leaders ordered the National Guard to keep African American students out of schools.; State governments worked to prevent integration.

Question 3

In response to the move by the governor of Arkansas to block the Little Rock Nine from attending high school, President Eisenhower

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ordered the National Guard to escort students safely into the school.

Question 4

Which African American civil rights organization, formed in 1909, used legal means and the courts to fight segregation?

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the NAACP

Question 5

What was the outcome of the Montgomery bus boycott?

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The Supreme Court ruled Alabama’s law unconstitutional.

Question 6

A sit-in is best described as

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an act of protest that involves occupying a place to promote change.

Question 7

What was the main reason African American parents sued a Kansas school board in 1954?

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to advocate the desegregation of public schools

Question 8

Who was the first African American US Supreme Court justice?

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Thurgood Marshall

Question 9

What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education ?

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It was unconstitutional to segregate public schooling.

Civil Rights: Challenges and Changes — Quiz Answers

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