Civil Rights CH.5

Question 1

__________ are rights related to the duties of the citizenship and the opportunities for participation in civic life that the government is obligated to protect.

Answer 1

Civil rights

Question 2

The most important right is the right to

Answer 2

Vote

Question 3

The actions of the southern states during the period of segregation, such as denying African Americans the right to vote or appear in public places are examples of _________.

Answer 3

Public discrimination

Question 4

In what year did women get the right to vote nationally?

Answer 4

1920

Question 5

Originally, colonial Africans were not slaves, but were __________, with few differences from indentured servants of other races.

Answer 5

Servants

Question 6

The __________ banned slavery in the territories that were north of the southern border of Missouri.

Answer 6

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Question 7

In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the court ruled that not only could Congress not ban slavery in the territories but that blacks were not

Answer 7

Citizens

Question 8

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln ___________, which made slavery illegal in those states in rebellion as of January 1, 1863.

Answer 8

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 9

Congress first allowed nonwhites to become naturalized citizens in __________, when it extended naturalization to “persons of African descent.”

Answer 9

1870

Question 10

Full-fledged membership in a nation is called __________

Answer 10

Citizenship

Question 11

The Indian Removal Act of 1830, created the forcible removal of Native Americans to

Answer 11

Reservations

Question 12

During the Mexican Repatriation, roughly 60 percent of those deported were _________.

Answer 12

U.S citizens

Question 13

The __________ Act of 1924 placed quotas for ethnic groups based on the proportion of Americans from each nationality resident in 1890, thereby severely limiting the number of whites considered to be of “lower race,” that is, those from southern and eastern Europe.

Answer 13

Immigration

Question 14

In order to keep ethnic groups as well as anyone considered undesirable out of the country, Congress used

Answer 14

Immigration laws

Question 15

The ___________ Amendment, in addition to guaranteeing that no state shall deny any person due process of law, prohibits states from denying any person the equal protection of the law.

Answer 15

Fourteenth

Question 16

___________ laws were used by southern states to enforce segregation of whites and black in all public places.

Answer 16

Jim Crow laws

Question 17

The Courts ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson established the doctrine of

Answer 17

Separate-but-equal doctrine

Question 18

The states continued the English policy of __________, which granted married women no rights independent of their husbands.

Answer 18

Coverture

Question 19

In 1789, only __________ allowed women the right to vote, provided the women met the state’s property requirements. This right was rescinded in 1807.

Answer 19

New Jersey

Question 20

By August 1920, with effective lobbying by suffragist groups, three-quarters of the states ratified the ____________ Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote in the November 1920 presidential election.

Answer 20

Nineteenth

Question 21

In the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, the Court ruled that segregated schools violated the

Answer 21

Equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 22

While the Court’s ruling in Brown was historic, the ruling itself did little to desegregate schools due to its ambiguous command that schools should desegregate

Answer 22

“With all deliberate speed.”

Question 23

President John Kennedy had to send 25,000 federal troops to ensure the enrollment of one black man, James Meredith, at ___________ in 1962.

Answer 23

The University of Mississippi

Question 24

On December 1, 1955, police arrested __________ for refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white person.

Answer 24

Rosa Parks

Question 25

In Loving v. Virginia (1967), the Court struck down ___________, finding no compelling interest in a law that prohibited interracial marriage.

Answer 25

Miscegenation

Question 26

Martin Luther King Jr. insisted that ___________ was the only gateway to negotiation. Those negotiations ended with Birmingham business agreeing to ingrate lunch counters and hire more blacks.

Answer 26

Peaceful civil disobedience

Question 27

In March 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. organized a voting rights march from __________, where the Alabama police, under the authority of Governor George Wallace, beat the marchers with whips, and cattle prods.

Answer 27

Selma to Montgomery

Question 28

In 1972, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) established the _________, which worked to eliminate discriminatory laws by developing a litigation strategy for ending gender-based discrimination.

Answer 28

Women’s Rights Project