Reading and Composition: Chapter 5 Quiz Review

Reading 1

100

True or false: Thomas Jefferson accepted the idea that a person's place in society was fixed.

False: Thomas Jefferson REJECTED the idea that a person's place in society was fixed. (page 108)
(100 pts)

200

What were the famous words from the Declaration of Independence that Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address?

a. "We hold these truths to be self-evident"

b. "And the home of the brave"

c. "All men are created equal"

d. "With liberty and justice for all."

C: "All men are created equal" (page 108) (200 points)

300

What are unalienable rights?

a. Rights that no one can take away
b. Rights that we have because we are human beings
c. Rights that can only be taken away by the government
d. Rights that aliens from space have.

a. rights that no one can take away (page 109)
(300 points)

400

What does the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution do?

a. it freed the slaves
b. it ended segregation of schools
c. it guarantees equal protection under the law to everyone
d. gave African American men the right to vote

c. guarantees equal protection of the law to everyone in the U.S. (page 108)

(400 pts)

500

What is a civil war? (give the definition)

A war between two groups of people living in the same country (page 108)
(500 pts)

Reading 2

100

True or false: Lynching is a murder, usually by shooting, when a person or group decides that someone is guilty of a crime and kills the suspect without a trial.

False: Lynching is a murder, usually by HANGING, when a person or group decides that someone is guilty of a crime and kills the suspect without a trial. (page 113)

(100 pts)

200

Why would people threaten violence against African American people in America?

a. to make them leave the U.S.A and go back to Africa
b. to scare them so that they would agree to be slaves again
c. to prevent them from voting and maintain their low place in society
d. No one threatened violence against African Americans.

c. To prevent them from voting and maintain their low place in society (page 113)
(200 points)

300

Fill in the blanks: In 1896, the Supreme Court said segregated schools were OK if the schools were ______________ but ____________.

In 1896, the Supreme Court said segregated schools were OK if the schools were SEPARATE but EQUAL. (page 113)

(300 pts)

400

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
a. gave African American men the right to vote
b. guarantees equal protection under the law to everyone
c. gave women the right to vote
d. freed all the slaves

d. freed all the slaves (page 112)

(400)

500

Which of these was NOT an example of Jim Crow laws?
a. African Americans were not allowed to own businesses.
b. Blacks and whites had to use separate public facilities
c. Interracial marriage was prohibited in some states
d. Voting taxes and literacy tests disenfranchised many black voters.

a. African Americans were not allowed to own businesses

African Americans COULD own businesses--remember the boxed text about Madam C.J. Walker on page 113?

(500 points)

Reading 3

100

What type of protest did the leaders of the Civil Rights movement want?

a. religious protest
b. mostly peaceful, but sometimes violent protest
c. all peaceful, nonviolent protest
d. no protest at all

b. peaceful, nonviolent protest (page 118)

(100 pts)

200

True or false: US schools in 21 states were segregated in the 1970s.

FALSE. US Schools in 21 states were segregated in the *1950s.* (p 118 para 2)

300

In the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case, what was NOT an argument of the defenders of school segregation?

a. States had a right to make decisions about education issues
b. Segregation was not harmful to African Americans
c. Segregated schools were separate but equal
d. The Fourteenth Amendment protects the right to segregate schools.

D. The Fourteenth Amendment protects the right to segregate schools.

The lawyers for Oliver Brown, the man arguing AGAINST segregation, argued that the 14th Amendment guarantees equal treatment for everyone (page 118 para 3)
(300 pts)

400

What was the Supreme Court's ruling (decision) in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka?

a. that segregation was legal as long as schools were separate but equal
b. that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal
c. that laws permitting segregated schools are unconstitutional
d. that Jim Crow laws are illegal

b. that separate educational facilities are inherently illegal (page 119 para 1)

(400 pts)

500

What was NOT a way that local and state governments tried to keep schools from integrating?

a. the Arkansas governor tried to prevent black students from attending school in the state capital
b. some white families took their children out of public schools and sent them to private schools
c. The president sent soldiers to stop black kids from going to white schools
d. some communities closed schools to keep black kids from attending

c. the president sent soldiers to stop black kids from going to white schools

In reality, President Eisenhower had to send soldiers had to send soldiers to PROTECT African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas. (page 119, paragraph 2)

(500 pts)

More Reading 3

100

True or False: By 1960, less than 1 percent of black children in the South attended school with white children.

TRUE: by 1960, less than 1 percent of black children attended school with white children. (page 119 para 2)

100 pts

200

True or false: the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 6 months.

FALSE: The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted more than 1 year. (page 119 para 3)

200 pts

300

Who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?

Rosa Parks started the Montgomery Bus Boycott (page 119 para 3)

-She was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. After her arrest, other African Americans in the Civil Rights movement boycotted the Montgomery buses. 300 pts

400

What prohibited segregation in schools and public places and prohibited discrimination by employers?

a. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
b. The Fourteenth Amendment
c. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
d. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

C. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (page 119 para 6)

400 pts

500

What gave the federal government the power to make sure that African Americans were allowed to vote?

a. the Fifteenth Amendment
b. The Thirteenth Amendment
c. The Anti-Disenfranchisement Act of 1968
d. The Voting Rights Act of 1965

D. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (page 120 para 1)

500 pts