Chapter 4 Section 3 And 4

Question 1

Laws from after the Civil War that kept African-Americans from holding certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited the rights in other ways

Answer 1

Black codes

Question 2

A sum of money that people were required to pay to vote

Answer 2

Poll taxes

Question 3

Gave residents of Washington DC the right to vote

Answer 3

23rd amendment

Question 4

Stated that all people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens

Answer 4

14th amendment

Question 5

Repealed the 18th amendment

Answer 5

21st amendment

Question 6

Abolished slavery

Answer 6

13th amendment

Question 7

Gave women the right to vote

Answer 7

19th amendment

Question 8

Made 18 the minimum voting age in elections

Answer 8

26th amendment

Question 9

Prohibited the consumption, possession , or selling of alcohol

Answer 9

18th amendment

Question 10

Made pole Taxes illegal

Answer 10

24th amendment

Question 11

Allowed for the direct election of Senators

Answer 11

17th amendment

Question 12

One of the major leaders of the civil rights movement who believed in nonviolence resistance/peaceful protest of unfair laws

Answer 12

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 13

The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

Answer 13

Civil rights

Question 14

The social separation of races

Answer 14

Segregation

Question 15

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

Answer 15

Discrimination

Question 16

Programs to try to make up for past discrimination. These programs encourage the hiring and promoting of minorities and woman in fields that were traditionally close to them

Answer 16

Affirmative action

Question 17

The right to vote

Answer 17

Suffrage

Question 18

This law prohibited discrimination in public facilities, employment, education, and voter registration

Answer 18

Civil rights act of 1964

Question 19

This legislation banned unfair use of literacy tests

Answer 19

Voting rights act of 1965

Question 20

Laws in the south that segregated the races

Answer 20

Jim Crow laws

Question 21

A violent act against a person because of his or her race, color, national origin, gender, or disability

Answer 21

Hate crime

Question 22

What did the civil rights act of 1964 do?

Answer 22

It banned segregation in stores, restaurants, hotels, in theaters. Also any discrimination in decisions about hiring work

Question 23

What were sit-ins?

Answer 23

The act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organize protest

Question 24

Why did the brown vs board case come about? What were the results?

Answer 24

This case came about because Linda Brown had to walk all the way across town just to go to a black school when a white school was just a couple blocks down from her house. The results were victorious for the civil rights. The court said that separating children in schools by race was against the Constitution

Question 25

What were the freedom rides/freedom riders

Answer 25

The freedom rides were protests trying to tell America that we are a diverse country and to start acting like one. Freedom riders were black and whites that did these protests