Humanities3.06 Quiz: Other Paths
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3.06 Quiz: Other Paths

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Which phrase describes the treatment blacks received in the years before World War II?
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Separate and unequal.
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Which was not a hardship African Americans experienced in the years preceding World War II?
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Problems marrying one another.
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What were blacks hoping for following their service in World War II?
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An end to Jim Crow laws.
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Which is one way that life changed for many black Americans following World War II?
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The lure of jobs took many to the North.
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Whose actions did not challenge the racial status quo during the 1940s?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Which organization worked to improve the situation for blacks in the 1940s?
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?
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Public schools that separated students by race had to make changes.
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What did blacks hope to gain by boycotting the buses in Montgomery, Alabama?
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They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.
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Which is not an example of white resistance to desegregation?
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Sending the poorest white students into black schools.
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How did the federal government respond when the governor of Arkansas refused to allow black students to enroll in Little Rock's Central High School?
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President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort and protect the students.
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What was one technique used by black and white activists to call attention to their demands?
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Bus trips through the South promoting civil rights.
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What was King's dream?
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Equality for all.
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Which of the following advertisements would have been illegal after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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B
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Why did SNCC and CORE send hundreds of volunteers south during the Freedom Summer campaigns?
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To help register hundreds of thousands of black voters in Mississippi.
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Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and food stamps were __________.
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Programs created as part of Johnson's Great Society.
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Why had some black leaders taken a more militant approach to civil rights by 1965?
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They believed King's approach to demanding civil rights was too cautious and the pace of change too slow.
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What effect did the demonstrations and marches in Selma in March of 1965 have on the civil rights movement?
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Five months later, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act and the number of black voters in the South rose.