1F.2 The quest for civil rights, 1917–80 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 6

The 20 questions

1. Which legal doctrine was established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson?

   • Due process
   • Clear and present danger
   • Separate but equal
   • Affirmative action

2. Which 1954 Supreme Court ruling declared school segregation unconstitutional?

   • Roe v. Wade
   • Brown v. Board
   • Miranda v. Arizona
   • Gideon v. Wainwright

3. Whose arrest for refusing to give up a bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?

   • Rosa Parks
   • Ella Baker
   • Fannie Lou Hamer
   • Claudette Colvin

4. Which civil rights organisation was founded in 1909 to fight racial injustice through legal challenges?

   • SNCC
   • CORE
   • NAACP
   • SCLC

5. What name is given to the mass movement of African Americans to northern cities?

   • The Great Migration
   • The Long March
   • The Freedom Ride
   • The Trail of Tears

6. Which president's 1948 executive order desegregated the US armed forces?

   • Franklin D. Roosevelt
   • John F. Kennedy
   • Harry S. Truman
   • Dwight D. Eisenhower

7. Which landmark 1964 act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and employment across the USA?

   • Fair Housing Act
   • Civil Rights Act
   • Equal Rights Amendment
   • Voting Rights Act

8. Which 1965 US federal law abolished literacy tests used to prevent Black Americans from voting?

   • Voting Rights Act
   • Civil Rights Act
   • Fair Housing Act
   • Taft-Hartley Act

9. What primary strategy was used by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s?

   • Courtroom litigation
   • Armed self-defence
   • Political lobbying
   • Non-violent direct action

10. Which slogan came to represent a more assertive civil rights stance in the mid-1960s?

    • Great Society
    • Manifest Destiny
    • New Deal
    • Black Power

11. Which issue was the main focus of Martin Luther King Jr's Chicago campaign in 1966?

    • Voting rights
    • Housing discrimination
    • Bus integration
    • School desegregation

12. Which major issue did the 1964 Civil Rights Act largely fail to address?

    • Public segregation
    • Employment discrimination
    • Economic inequality
    • Legal segregation

13. Which 1968 federal law banned discrimination in the sale and rental of housing?

    • Civil Rights Act
    • Fair Housing Act
    • Equal Pay Act
    • Voting Rights Act

14. Which 1965 Alabama marches directly prompted the passage of the Voting Rights Act?

    • Greensboro sit-ins
    • Freedom Rides
    • March on Washington
    • Selma to Montgomery

15. Which organisation was led by Cesar Chavez to campaign for farm workers' rights?

    • Black Panther Party
    • American Indian Movement
    • United Farm Workers
    • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

16. Which 1969 event is widely recognised as starting the modern gay rights movement?

    • March on Washington
    • Haymarket affair
    • Watts riots
    • Stonewall riots

17. Which 1973 protest drew national attention to Indigenous American grievances?

    • Selma to Montgomery march
    • Greensboro sit-ins
    • Birmingham campaign
    • Occupation of Wounded Knee

18. Which 1975 law gave Native American tribes greater control over federal programmes?

    • Termination Act
    • Dawes Act
    • Indian Reorganisation Act
    • Indian Self-Determination Act

19. How did mainstream civil rights tactics primarily shift from the 1950s to the 1960s?

    • Armed rebellion
    • Legal litigation only
    • Mass direct action
    • Electoral lobbying only

20. Which landmark civil rights event occurred earliest?

    • Brown v. Board
    • March on Washington
    • Voting Rights Act
    • Civil Rights Act

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