Civil Rights Exam - 1. 13th Amendment Answer: Abolished Slavery in ...

Civil Rights Exam

GRADED A+ (ACTUAL EXAM ) Questions and Answers (Solved)

• 13th Amendment

Answer: Abolished Slavery in all the United States and all territories.

• 14th Amendment

Answer: Declares that all persons born in the U.S. including former slaves

are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws. Guaranteed citizens Due Process at both the state and national level

• 15th Amendment

Answer: Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race,

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (eliminated literacy tests) allowed African

Americans to use the 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment (1920)

Answer: Gave women the right to vote

5. KKK

Answer: a group that tried to prevent racial minorities from gaining

political equality and the ability to participate in elections.

• Plessy case

Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson: a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal (separate but equal)

7. NAACP

Answer: National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons;

Found- ed by W.E.B. DuBois. T. The NAACP successfully argued against 1 / 2

school segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education overruled Plessy v. Ferguson.

• Desegregate the military

Answer: An Executive order issued by President Truman in 1948 that

stated that in the armed forces, everyone was to be treated equally in treatment and in opportunity no matter the race, religion, or nationality of the person.

• Jackie Robinson

Answer: Player in the Negro Leagues who Rose to national fame by

helping bring an end to racial segregation in Major League Baseball.

• Sweatt case

Answer: Sweatt v. Painter : In Texas, state law schools had to admit black students, even if separate law schools for blacks existed. It set a precedent for Brown v. Board

• Thurgood Marshall

Answer: American civil rights lawyer, first African-American justice on

the Supreme Court of the United States. He successfully argued against racial segregation in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case.

• Brown v. Board

Answer: Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation by

overruling Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that separate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed. The case led to equality in other areas.

13. MLK: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer: Non-violent civil disobedience. He Led Montgomery Bus

Boycott, helped found Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and led

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