Fannie Lou Hamer
What was Fannie Lou Hamer fighting for?
A. Lower taxes
B. Voting rights and Black political power
C. Becoming a movie star
B. Voting rights and Black political power ✅
What does SNCC stand for?
A. Southern National Civil Council
B. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ✅
C. Student National Community Coalition
B. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Which group of Asian Americans has one of the largest populations in Wisconsin?
A. Japanese Americans
B. Hmong Americans
C. Filipino Americans
B. Hmong Americans ✅
Which organization successfully led the campaign to remove police officers from Madison public schools in 2020 after years of youth organizing?
A. The NAACP
B. Freedom, Inc.
C. The American Civil Liberties Union
B. Freedom, Inc. ✅
Which constitutional amendment says people cannot be denied the right to vote because of race?
A. 1st Amendment
B. 15th Amendment
C. 22nd Amendment
B. 15th Amendment ✅
Although the 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870, many Black people were still prevented from voting for nearly another century through violence and discriminatory laws.
What happened to Fannie Lou Hamer after she tried to register to vote?
A. She won an election.
B. She lost her job and faced violence.
C. She moved to Washington, D.C.
B. She lost her job and faced violence. ✅
Hamer was fired from the plantation where she lived and worked after attempting to register to vote. She was also jailed and brutally beaten because of her activism.
Who made up most of SNCC?
A. College students and young organizers
B. Professional athletes
C. Business owners
A. College students and young organizers ✅
Many Hmong families came to the United States after helping the U.S. during which war?
A. World War II
B. The Vietnam War (including the Secret War in Laos)
C. The Korean War
B. The Vietnam War (including the Secret War in Laos) ✅
Which Civil Rights leader called the vote "the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society"?
A. Malcolm X
B. Martin Luther King Jr.
C. Stokely Carmichael
B. Martin Luther King Jr. ✅
King believed that winning the right to vote was essential because it gave Black communities the power to shape laws, elect accountable leaders, and continue the broader struggle for racial justice.
Which law banned literacy tests and many other forms of voter discrimination?
A. The Patriot Act
B. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
C. The Affordable Care Act
B. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ✅
The Voting Rights Act became law only after years of organizing, arrests, boycotts, and protests led by Black communities.
Which organization did Fannie Lou Hamer help create?
A. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
B. Girl Scouts
C. NAACP Legal Defense Fund
A. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ✅
What was one of SNCC's biggest goals?
A. Build shopping centers
B. Register Black voters in the South
C. Run for Congress
B. Register Black voters in the South ✅
What is one reason interpreters are important at the polls?
A. To tell people who to vote for
B. To help voters understand ballots and the voting process
C. To count votes
B. To help voters understand ballots and the voting process ✅
Malcolm X compared a ballot to what?
A. A hammer
B. A bullet
C. A flag
B. A bullet ✅
In his famous speech "The Ballot or the Bullet," Malcolm X argued that voting is powerful only when people use it strategically to demand real change, not simply out of habit or party loyalty.
What was the purpose of poll taxes?
A. To build new polling places.
B. To stop poor people, especially Black voters, from voting.
C. To pay election workers.
B. To stop poor people, especially Black voters, from voting. ✅
Poll taxes were one of many Jim Crow laws designed to suppress Black political power.
Fannie Lou Hamer became nationally known after speaking at:
A. The Democratic National Convention ✅
B. The Super Bowl
C. The Academy Awards
A. The Democratic National Convention
SNCC volunteers often faced:
A. Free vacations
B. Prize money
C. Arrests, violence, and intimidation for helping people vote. ✅
C. Arrests, violence, and intimidation for helping people vote. ✅
Hmong community organizations often encourage people to:
A. Skip local elections
B. Vote and participate in community leadership
C. Only vote every four years
B. Vote and participate in community leadership ✅
What did Freedom Schools teach during Freedom Summer?
A. Only math
B. Black history, organizing, and civic participation
C. Military training
B. Black history, organizing, and civic participation ✅
Which U.S. Supreme Court decision weakened key protections of the Voting Rights Act in 2013?
A. Brown v. Board of Education
B. Roe v. Wade
C. Shelby County v. Holder
C. Shelby County v. Holder ✅
The decision removed the requirement that some states with histories of discrimination get federal approval before changing voting laws. Many states passed new voting restrictions soon afterward.
Finish this famous quote:
"I'm sick and tired..."
A. "...of waiting in line."
B. "...of being sick and tired."
C. "...of elections."
B. "...of being sick and tired." ✅
SNCC helped organize which historic event in 1964?
A. The Million Man March
B. Freedom Summer
C. The March for Our Lives
B. Freedom Summer ✅
Question: Which statement is TRUE?
A. Asian Americans have always had equal voting rights.
B. Asian Americans have never voted in U.S. elections.
C. Many Asian American communities have organized for language access, voter education, and fair representation.
C. Many Asian American communities have organized for language access, voter education, and fair representation. ✅
Which group often carried guns to protect Civil Rights workers in the South?
A. The Boy Scouts
B. Deacons for Defense and Justice
C. The Red Cross
B. Deacons for Defense and Justice ✅
Which of these is considered a form of voter suppression?
A. Offering language assistance at the polls.
B. Providing rides to vote.
C. Closing polling places in communities of color or making it harder to vote.
C. Closing polling places in communities of color or making it harder to vote. ✅
Throughout U.S. history, voter suppression has included literacy tests, poll taxes, intimidation, purging voter rolls, reducing polling locations, and limiting access to mail or early voting.