Chapter 5: Civil Rights

Question 1

13th amendment

Answer 1

banned slavery

Question 2

14th amendment

Answer 2

gave newly freed slaves equal protection under the law

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

gave african-american men the right to vote

Question 4

forms of disenfranchisement

Answer 4

residency requirements
poll taxes
literacy tests
white primaries
grandfather clause

Question 5

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 5

state and local laws that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the south, many border states, and some northern communities

Question 6

1949…

Answer 6

african-americans could enroll at the University of Missouri, but only if the course they wanted to take was not offered at Lincoln University

Question 7

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 7

supported separate but equal doctrine

Question 8

separate but equal doctrine

Answer 8

racial segregation was acceptable as long as the separate facilities were of equal quality (struck down by Brown v. Board)

Question 9

Brown v. Board (1954)

Answer 9

segregated schools violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment

Question 10

de jure segregation

Answer 10

relating to actions or circumstances that occur by law

Question 11

de facto segregation

Answer 11

relating ot actions or circumstances that occur outside the law

Question 12

Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg

Answer 12

supreme court said bussing black students from city to white schools in suburbs was constitutional

Question 13

Milliken v. Bradley

Answer 13

white suburban district had no responsibility to help desegregate urban schools (overturned busing plan)

Question 14

millage

Answer 14

rate of taxation