Civil Rights Movement Timeline quiz

What does the term "civil rights" mean?

• Rights of citizens to access free healthcare
• Rights of citizens to own property and businesses
• Rights of citizens to drive without restrictions
• Rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

When was the Civil Rights Movement?

• 1860s and 1870s

• 1950s and 1960s
• 2000s and 2010s

• 1770s and 1780s

Segregation means....

• Combining different groups of people based on their characteristics
• The act of treating everyone equally regardless of their race or ethnicity
• The process of integrating different communities to promote diversity
• Separation of a group of people based on their race, ethnicity, or other characteristics

An activist is...

• someone who avoids social or political change
• someone who actively campaigns AGAINST social or political change

• someone who actively campaigns FOR social or political change

Name the Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation in schools as illegal.

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Ed

• Miranda v Arizona

• Marbury v Madison

In the case Brown v Board of Education, Linda Brown sued the school district because she wanted to....

• go to an expensive private school

• go to her neighborhood school

• go to a summer camp on Cape Cod

• go to an all-girls' school

Rosa Parks was the first person to ever refuse to move his/her seat on a bus.

• True

• False

What happened after Rosa Parks was arrested that didn't happen after the arrest of Claudette Colvin 9 months earlier?

• Brown v Board of Education

• All racial segregation laws were repealed

• Rosa Parks was released immediately
• Montgomery Bus Boycott

Why is a boycott an effective protest strategy?

• It lasts for a very short amount of time.

• It sound really good in the history books

• It increases the popularity of the target
• It can economically hurt the target (cost them lots of money)

What is the importance of the Little Rock Nine as a part of the Civil Rights Movement?

• They brought attention to the battle for desegregation in schools.

• They were a group of individuals who opposed the Civil Rights Movement.
• They had no impact on the Civil Rights Movement.
• They supported segregation.