Civil rights movement

The Declaration of Emancipation was signed by Abraham Lincoln in...

• 1763

• 1863

• 1963

The Declaration of Emancipation put an end to...

• segregation

• Apartheid

• slavery

• the Civil War

Between 1865 and 1868 two Amendments to the Constitution were passed. They were...

• the 12th and 13th Amendments

• the 13th and 14th Amendments

• The 3Oth and 40th Amendments

These Amendments established...

• equal pay for all US citizens

• discrimination as legal

• equal rights for all US citizens

• the Jim Crow laws

The Jim Crow laws were then enacted....

• in the Southern states

• in the Northern states

• all over the United States

• in Mississippi and Alabama only

The Jim Crow laws aimed to...

• ensure equal rights for all

• outlaw discrimination

• establish segregation

• punish segregation

The movement for equality was called...

• The Black Rights Movement

• The Citizen Movement

• The Equal Rights Movement

• The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement was sparked by Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat in...

• 1915

• 1955

• 1965

Who was NOT a leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Martin Luther King

• Thurgood Marshall

How many people gathered in Washington DC in August 1963?

• over 2,000

• over 20,000

• over 200,000

• they were not counted