Chapter 9 Test

Question 1

form of government insurance for accidental death or injuries in the workplace

Answer 1

worker’s compensation

Question 2

basic rights of citizens, such as free speech, suffrage, privacy, and property ownership

Answer 2

civil rights

Question 3

group that adopted the Confederate battle flag as the symbol of their resistance to civil rights for blacks and “Dixie” as their song

Answer 3

Dixiecrats

Question 4

concept that allowed states to pass laws to segregate public facilities for blacks and whites

Answer 4

separate-but-equal concept

Question 5

process of bringing different group/races into society as equals

Answer 5

integration

Question 6

group that distributed material supporting segregation, organized political pressure, founded a newspaper, and make radio and television broadcasts

Answer 6

White Citizen’s Council

Question 7

placing state’ power over that of the federal government

Answer 7

interposition

Question 8

organization designed to identify, watch, and defeat the enemies of segregation

Answer 8

Sovereignty Commission

Question 9

demonstrations where people enter a public facility and refuse to eave until their demands are heard

Answer 9

sit-ins

Question 10

an act that made it unlawful for anyone to discriminate on the basis of race if they served the public

Answer 10

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 11

soft wood used in making paper

Answer 11

pulpwood

Question 12

law that allows workers to get and keep jobs without having to join a Union

Answer 12

right-to-work law

Question 13

income payments for which no goods or services are exchanged

Answer 13

transfer payments

Question 14

an integrated group of MSians who challenged the Democratic party regulars at the 1968 national convention

Answer 14

loyalists

Question 15

What black teen was lynched in 1955 because he made a remark at a white woman?

Answer 15

Emmett Till

Question 16

What was Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 16

said separate-but-equal concept was unconstitutional(U.S. Supreme Court case that ended segregation)

Question 17

What was the last University to be established in 1950?

Answer 17

MS Valley State University

Question 18

Who was the first black student to enroll at Ole Miss?

Answer 18

James Meredith

Question 19

Who was president of the MS NAACP when the first black man enrolled at Ole Miss and he was murdered at his house in Jackson?

Answer 19

Medgar Evers

Question 20

Who was elected the first black representative since Reconstruction?

Answer 20

Robert Clark

Question 21

Who was elected the first black mayor in MS?

Answer 21

Charles Evers

Question 22

Who was elected Governor in 1959 and tried to keep James Meredith from attending Ole Miss?

Answer 22

Ross Barnett

Question 23

What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 23

U.S Supreme Court case that ruled “separate-but-equal facilities” were constitutional

Question 24

What year were MS schools integrated?

Answer 24

1970

Question 25

What was the name of the devastating hurricane in 1969?

Answer 25

Hurricane Camille