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Chapter 5 – Civil Rights
1. The statement that “all men are created equal” can be found in the
A) U.S. Constitution.
B) Declaration of Independence.
C) Bill of Rights.
D) Declaration of the Rights of Man.
E) Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
2. The vote was extended to women in 1920 as a result of
A) presidential executive order.
B) passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
C) congressional mandate.
D) a Supreme Court decision.
E) individual state decisions.
3. Through which pathway have Native American activists succeeded in their attempts to recover some of the debt owned them by the United States government?
A) the court pathway
B) the elections pathway
C) the cultural change pathway
D) the grassroots mobilization pathway
E) the lobbying pathway.
True-False Questions
1. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case was Earl Warren.
2. César Chávez was a Latino civil rights leader who mainly used the court pathways to obtain protection for migrant farm workers.
1. The founders’ intent behind the words “All men are created equal” was
A) equality of white men and women, excluding African Americans.
B) human equality, including women and African Americans.
C) equality of opportunity.
D) equality of condition.
E) political equality.
2. Collectively, the Civil War Amendments were intended to
A) define the rights of freed slaves and give those rights constitutional protection.
B) punish the South for the Civil War.
C) reintegrate the United States into a single country.
D) dismantle the Southern military.
E) prevent states from attempting to leave the union again.
3. Homer Plessy was arrested and charged with what crime?
A) refusing to give up his seat to a white passenger
B) sitting in a white-only train car
C) attempting to attend a white-only school
D) attending a white church
E) eating in a white-only restaurant
4. The significance of the U.S.
1. The statement that “all men are created equal” can be found in the
A) U.S. Constitution.
B) Declaration of Independence.
C) Bill of Rights.
D) Declaration of the Rights of Man.
E) Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
2. The vote was extended to women in 1920 as a result of
A) presidential executive order.
B) passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
C) congressional mandate.
D) a Supreme Court decision.
E) individual state decisions.
3. Through which pathway have Native American activists succeeded in their attempts to recover some of the debt owned them by the United States government?
A) the court pathway
B) the elections pathway
C) the cultural change pathway
D) the grassroots mobilization pathway
E) the lobbying pathway.
True-False Questions
1. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case was Earl Warren.
2. César Chávez was a Latino civil rights leader who mainly used the court pathways to obtain protection for migrant farm workers.
1. The founders’ intent behind the words “All men are created equal” was
A) equality of white men and women, excluding African Americans.
B) human equality, including women and African Americans.
C) equality of opportunity.
D) equality of condition.
E) political equality.
2. Collectively, the Civil War Amendments were intended to
A) define the rights of freed slaves and give those rights constitutional protection.
B) punish the South for the Civil War.
C) reintegrate the United States into a single country.
D) dismantle the Southern military.
E) prevent states from attempting to leave the union again.
3. Homer Plessy was arrested and charged with what crime?
A) refusing to give up his seat to a white passenger
B) sitting in a white-only train car
C) attempting to attend a white-only school
D) attending a white church
E) eating in a white-only restaurant
4. The significance of the U.S.