Lesson 1: Civil Rights

The Civil Rights occurred between what two decades?

• 1920's and 1930's

• 1940's and 1950's

• 1910's and 1920's

• 1950's and 1960's

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Christopher Columbus and his men began taking advantage of who once they landed in the Americas in 1492?

• African-Americans

• Mexicans

• Native Americans

• Pilgrims

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Racism occurs when:

• when everyone gets along

• when one group considers themselves superior to the other group

• it's not real, there is no racism in the world

• everyone loves each other

Africans were taken from their homeland in the 1700's and became what in the United States once they arrived?

• slaves

• land-owners

• Politicians

• Free men and women

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Slavery continued in the United States until what war stopped it?

• World War 1

• World War 2

• World War Z

• The Civil War

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What was the name of the laws that were passed in the South that took away freedoms and opportunities from African Americans after slavery?

• Twitter ban Laws

• Civil War Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation Laws

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African-Americans were required to pay and take a reading test in order to vote during the Jim Crow Laws period.

• True

• False

• It didn't say in the passage

• Lies, all lies

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What is the name of the man who challenged the Jim Crow Laws in 1892?

• Homer Simpson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Homer Plessy

• Rosa Parks

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Homer Plessy won his case and after 1892 there was no more segregation.

• True

• False

• There was never segregation

• I don't remember

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Name two figures mentioned at the end of the passage who were part of the Civil Rights Movement.

• Homer Plessy and Jim Crow

• Christopher Columbus and Homer Plessy

• Separate but Equal

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks

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