Civil Rights Quiz

What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

• To please anti-federalist

• To interest lobbyists

• Protects our civil rights & liberties

• To prevent being taken advantage of

What are the 5 freedoms given in the first amendment? 

• Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech
• Religion, Clothing, Press, Petition, Speech
• Religion, Assembly, Education, Petition, Speech
• Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Discussion

What event led to the 2nd (Right to bear arms) and 3rd (House soldiers) amendments? 

• Civil War
• Pearl Harbor
• 9/11
• Revolutionary War

The 13th, 14th, 15th amendments directly affected who? 

• Whites
• Hispanics 
• Americans 
• African Americans

What is NOT an act passed because of the Civil Rights Movement? 

• Equal Pay Act
• Bathroom Rig Act
• Voting Rights Act
• Open Housing Act

What is the reasoning for the 2nd amendment?

• To protect yourself from dangerous people
• To protect citizens from a tyranny government
• To make the nation safer
• To satisfy hunters

What was the name of the group who rode buses down into the deep south for Civil Rights 

• Freedom Runners
• Freedom Gangstas
• #GangWeWantFreedom
• Freedom Riders

Who was a famous baseball player and a major Civil Rights activists 

• Jackie Robinson
• Hank Aaron
• Babe Ruth
• Jackie Rutherford

What were the laws called that still kept African Americans from doing certain things in the South?

• Black Laws
• Crow codes
• Jim Crow laws
• African American laws

What is the 13th Amendment?

• Banned integration

• Banned Slavery and forced labor

• Banned segregation

• The right to bear arms