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Civil Rights and Voting Rights

Question 5 • 11011de2 CONNECTED Fall 2026 NM-US History and Geography S2

The “I Have a Dream” speech referred to which historic American document?

Answer
t
the Magna Carta
t
the Voting Rights Act
t
the Declaration of Independence
t
the Twenty-fourth Amendment

Explanation

In “I Have a Dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. quoted the Declaration of Independence’s promise that “all men are created equal.” He used that founding principle to highlight the gap between America’s ideals and the discrimination Black Americans faced. The historic document is the Declaration of Independence, choice C.

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