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Modern Georgia: Civil Rights
Test Description: A few review questions from Georgia Studies.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What BEST describes the ruling of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education?
A
Public schools should be governed only by the states.
B
Public schools should be desegregated.
C
Public schools should be segregated.
D
Public schools should be closed.
2) The pressure put on by King's March on Washington forced Congress into the passage of this law that put the full weight of the federal government behind ending segregation.
A
Equal Rights Amendment
B
Civil Rights Act of 1964
C
Affordable Care Act
D
Fourteenth Amendment
3) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. favored bringing about social change through
A
warfare.
B
infiltrating the two major political parties and winning elections.
C
nonviolent protest
D
armed takeover of the government.
4) Why was the St. Andrew's Cross, also known as the stars and bars of the Confederacy, incorporated into a new state flag in 1956?
A
It was added because a majority of Georgia voters chose it.
B
It was because it was a favorite symbol of the governor.
C
it was to help encourage the Olympics to come to Atlanta.
D
It was a symbol of southern white resistance to change following the Brown decision.
5) What Civil Rights organization involved young people in nonviolent protests like the sit-ins that gave birth to this group in 1960?
A
NAACP
B
NCAA
C
SCLC
D
SNCC
6) The Sibley Commission is most correctly associated with
A
the lunch counter sit-ins
B
the Olympics
C
the Montgomery Bus Boycott
D
school desegregation
7) The first nonviolent protest led by Martin Luther King, Jr. were in this city.
A
Atlanta, GA
B
Albany, GA
C
Montgomery, AL
D
Memphis, TN
8) In January of 1961, Charlayne Hunter an Hamilton Holmes became Civil Rights heroes when they did what?
A
They were the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
B
They were killed during the Albany Movement protests.
C
They were the first African Americans elected to Congress from Georgia.
D
The were the first legal interracial marriage in Georgia.
9) This system of disfranchisement lasted until 1946 and it kept African Americans from voting in the Democratic primary in Georgia.
A
grandfather clause
B
Jim Crow
C
literacy test
D
white primary
10) Which of the following BEST explains why the Albany Movement ultimately failed to achieve its goals?
A
The president sent troops to break the strikes.
B
King and the organizers attempted to do to much at one time.
C
King was not involved in planning the Albany Movement.
D
The protesters were met with violent opposition from Albany city police and the National Guard.
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