Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Voting Rights in the Civil Rights Movement

Last updated almost 4 years ago

11 questions

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Library

Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Voting Rights in the Civil Rights Movement

Last updated almost 4 years ago

11 questions

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

What was Jim Crow?

Required

1

Draggable item		Corresponding Item

Required

1

What was lynching? Where did it occur? Was it done in public or private?

Required

1

Required

1

Why did the arrest of Rosa Parks prompt a reaction among African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama?

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

Required

1

The main reason southern states and localities implemented poll taxes was to:

Raise tax revenue for local governments

Ensure Democrats controlled all elective offices

Prevent African-Americans from voting

Pay the expenses of running the election

Poll taxes and literacy tests were the only ways Southern Whites disenfranchised African Americans.

True

False

What was Jim Crow?

Match the action or event with the outcome.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
1965 Voting Rights Act		Prohibited poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)		Banned literacy tests, outlawed racial discrimination in voting
24th Amendment (1964)		Affirmed "separate but equal" doctrine
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)		Outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Civil Rights Act (1964)		Racial segregation of children in public schools was ruled unconstitutional.

What was lynching? Where did it occur? Was it done in public or private?

Rosa Parks was the first African American who was arrested for refusing to comply with a Jim Crow law.

True

False

Why did the arrest of Rosa Parks prompt a reaction among African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama?

The passing score for the 1965 Alabama Literacy Test was

100%

90%

75%

65%

Poor whites and white women had to pay poll taxes.

True

False

The Voting Rights Movement began when Martin Luther King came to prominence.

True

False

In 1957, African Americans were admitted to public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas under the protection of:

The Arkansas National Guard

Little Rock police and Arkansas State Troopers

Federal troops 

Local citizens and school officials who wanted to end segregation in their schools

The main reason southern states and localities implemented poll taxes was to:

Raise tax revenue for local governments

Ensure Democrats controlled all elective offices

Prevent African-Americans from voting

Pay the expenses of running the election

Poll taxes and literacy tests were the only ways Southern Whites disenfranchised African Americans.

True

False

Match the action or event with the outcome.

1965 Voting Rights Act

Prohibited poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election.

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Banned literacy tests, outlawed racial discrimination in voting

24th Amendment (1964)

Affirmed "separate but equal" doctrine

Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

Outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Racial segregation of children in public schools was ruled unconstitutional.

Rosa Parks was the first African American who was arrested for refusing to comply with a Jim Crow law.

True

False

The passing score for the 1965 Alabama Literacy Test was

100%

90%

75%

65%

Poor whites and white women had to pay poll taxes.

True

False

The Voting Rights Movement began when Martin Luther King came to prominence.

True

False

In 1957, African Americans were admitted to public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas under the protection of:

The Arkansas National Guard

Little Rock police and Arkansas State Troopers

Federal troops 

Local citizens and school officials who wanted to end segregation in their schools