Civil Rights Quiz Smith 2024

The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change

• nonviolet
• nonviolin
• nonviolence
• nonviola

These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High

• Elite Eight
• Little Rock Nine
• Arkansas Seven
• Final Four

Keeping things or people separate 

• integration
• discrimination
• DISTRACTION!
• segregation

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

• Freedom Rides
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• March from  Selma to Montgomery

This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion. 

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act
• 15th  Amendment
• Civil Rights Movement

What previous Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board overturn?

• Worcester v. Georgia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Marbury v. Madison

Law that eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests in elections

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution states

• all citizens are have the right to vote
• ends slavery
• separate but equal is unconstitutional
• outlaws grandfather clauses