Quiz Me! - Documents/Cases: Civil RightsTest your knowledge about documents and Supreme Court cases in the Civil Rights era! 1 / 10Executive Order 10730 was signed to… enforce court orders to allow the integration of Little Rock High School prevent racial integration at The University of Mississippi desegregate the United States Military ban protests at lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina 2 / 10Under what authority did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? “the necessary and proper clause” - Article 1, Section 8 “the due process clause” - 5th Amendment “the equal protection clause” - 14th Amendment “the commerce clause” - Article 1, Section 8 3 / 10What landmark piece of legislation banned racial discrimination in public accommodations such as restaurants and hotels? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1957 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Fair Housing Act of 1968 4 / 10What was one effect of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education? It overruled Hernandez v. Texas It overruled Plessy v. Ferguson Immediate desegregation in the south Creation of the NAACP 5 / 10Which landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overruled the “separate but equal” doctrine? Plessy v. Ferguson Hernandez v. Texas Brown v. Board of Education Sweatt v. Painter 6 / 10After the passage of The American Indian Citizenship Act, many Native Americans… lobbied for a constitutional amendment left their tribal reservations abandoned tribal citizenship in favor of U.S. citizenship felt the law was a violation of their sovereignty 7 / 10Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaim, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’” On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Marching in San Francisco, California Outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania From a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama 8 / 10What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplish? It created federal oversight of states’ discriminatory voting practices It required voters to produce a photo ID to discourage voter fraud It granted suffrage to all African American males It ended gerrymandering based on political parties 9 / 10What founding documents influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech? The Declaration of Independence & The U.S. Constitution The Bill of Rights & The Writ of Habeas Corpus The U.S. Constitution & The Federalist Papers The Magna Carta & The Declaration of Independence 10 / 10In his open letter rebuking eight clergymen who opposed his views on civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. urged people to take part in... A march in Selma, Alabama Protests against unfair hiring practices Nonviolent civil disobedience Segregation ordinances Your score is Try another 10!
