Civil rights

Question 1

Civil Rights

Answer 1

The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

Question 2

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 2

A court case that ended with a unanimous vote for the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Question 3

Brown vs Board of Education

Answer 3

A court case that over-ruled the Plessy vs Ferguson doctrine the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Question 4

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 4

Outlawed ANY discrimination anywhere within the United States.

Question 5

Voting Act of 1965

Answer 5

A voting law that prohibited discrimination in ANY way in the American voting system.

Question 6

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 6

An event led by Martin Luther King Jr. included the refusal by many African Americans to ride the Montgomery Buses. This event took place due to Rosa Park’s refusal to give a seat to a white male.

Question 7

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 7

Laws that were extremely racist in attitude, and legitimized the racism of anti-African American states.

Question 8

Suffrage

Answer 8

right to vote

Question 9

Missouri Compromise

Answer 9

1. Maine free state 2. Missouri slave state 3. Parallel 36 30’ as a diving line: N - Free S- Slave

Question 10

Compromise of 1850

Answer 10

. California free state 2. New Mexico/ Utah territories to vote on slate status - popular sovereignty 3. Slave trade prohibited in Washington D.C. 4. Fugitive Slave Law passed

Question 11

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 11

a law passed by Congress had the effect of encouraging violence by declaring that the slavery issue would be resolved by popular sovereignty?

Question 12

popular sovereignty

Answer 12

People of a state may decide whether the state will be free or slave.

Question 13

Compromise of 1850

Answer 13

Established the Fugitive Slave Act?

Question 14

What law established the Fugitive Slave Act?

Answer 14

Established the Court’s power of judicial review over acts of Congress (i.e. the Judiciary Act of 1789).