Civil Rights Retest Activity

Rosa Parks was arrested in December of 1955 on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She would not give up her seat to a white passenger. Her action started a year-long civil rights protest in Alabama. That protest was called the

• March on Washington
• Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• Brown v. Board of Education

Identify an event for which Martin Luther King, Jr. is most well-known.

• writing and reciting the Emancipation Proclamation
• not giving up his seat on a bus to a white person
• creating Jim Crow laws that were used in the South
• leading a march on Washington D.C. for civil rights

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts

The March on Washington led to what landmark congressional law that banned discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Reform of 1957

• Fair Treatment Act of 1968

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

ALL citizens have always had the right to vote in the U.S..

• TRUE
• FLASE

These kept African Americans from voting.

• literacy tests and poll taxes
• citizenship and writing
• having a job and car.
• being born in the South.

What do John F.Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy all have in common?

• they were all assassinated.
• All of them went in to space.
• They all ran for president.
• All spoke at the March on Washington.

This banned the use of literacy tests.

• Civil Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• Voting Rights Act
• Jim Crow Law

The U.S. began doing this in the 1960's.

• civil rights movement

• watching television

• space exploration

• all of the above