Early Civil Rights Movement Review 1

Early Civil Rights Movement Review 1

7th - 12th Grade

12 Qs

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Early Civil Rights Movement Review 1

Early Civil Rights Movement Review 1

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History, Social Studies

7th - 12th Grade

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Created by

Madeleine Hobbs

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

President Harry Truman advanced the cause of civil rights for African Americans by

ordering the desegregation of the Armed Forces.

appointing the first African American to the Supreme Court.

supporting the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

establishing affirmative action policies for industry.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Martin Luther King, Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he

led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man.

challenged the authority of the Supreme Court.

was elected as the first black congressman from the South.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

Unjust laws must be disobeyed and the consequences accepted peacefully.

African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The main reason the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the literacy test as a voting qualification was that

different standards of literacy had been applied to different groups of voters.

a majority of voters were unable to read election ballots.

technology had made voter literacy unnecessary.

the cost of achieving literacy was too high.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Information provided by the map most clearly supports the conclusion that by 1964 racial desegregation of Southern schools was

failing in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

supported by most voters in the South.

occurring at different rates in Southern states.

completed by the mid-1960s.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

The situation shown in this 1950 photograph is a direct result of the

Great Migration.

application of grandfather clauses.

passage of Jim Crow laws.

Montgomery bus boycott.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The civil rights movement began in 1955 with the _________________.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education

March on Washington

"I Have a Dream" speech

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