Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Multiple Choice

This amendment gave former slaves/African-Americans Citizenship

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 5th

Multiple Choice

This amendment granted African American men the right to vote (1870) (USH.9A)

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 5th

Multiple Choice

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

Multiple Choice

What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

• large

• mad

• nonviolent

• violent

Multiple Choice

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

Multiple Choice

What speech is Martin Luther King, Jr. known for?

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The "Moon" Speech

• The "I Have a Dream" speech

Multiple Choice

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
• It ended segregation in school
• It made poll taxes illegal

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed all African-Americans to vote