SOL Documentation & Record Keeping 5

Question 1

The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed:

Accepted Answer

Women the right to vote

Answer

It prohibited denying the vote based on sex, culminating the suffrage movement.

Question 2

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruled that:

Accepted Answer

Segregated public schools were unconstitutional

Answer

The Supreme Court held that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal, overturning Plessy in schools.

Question 3

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' (1963) was written to:

Accepted Answer

Clergymen who criticized the civil rights demonstrations

Answer

King responded to white clergymen who called his protests unwise and untimely.

Question 4

Loving v. Virginia (1967) struck down state laws that:

Accepted Answer

Banned interracial marriage

Answer

The Supreme Court ruled Virginia's ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional.

Question 5

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918) were a plan for:

Accepted Answer

Peace after World War I

Answer

Wilson proposed them as a basis for ending World War I and preventing future wars.

SOL - Virginia & US History Test Practice Test