Black History Month Pre-Assessment

Front

What was the Civil Rights Movement about?

Back

Equality of race (the color of one's skin)

Front

segregation

Back

Being kept apart from other people

Front

How were black people treated in the 1960s?

Back

Bad. Black people were separated from white people and were forced to go to worse schools.

Front

What civil rights leader refused to give up his or her seat on the bus to a white person?

Back

Rosa Parks

Front

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream?

Back

To be treated equally

Front

"Boycott"

Back

To stop using or buying something

Front

True or false: Ruby Bridges was the only black student who went to an all-white elementary school.

Back

True

Front

What effect did the Montgomery bus boycott have on the local bus company?

Back

Less passengers rode the bus so the bus company received less money.

Front

What was the Underground Railroad?

Back

A secret path that headed to free states in the North

Front

Which of the following is NOT true about George Washington Carver?

• He was the first African American to earn a college degree.
• He was an agricultural (farming) scientist.
• He invented hundreds of products using peanuts and other crops and helped poor farmers.
• He was a slave his entire life.

Back

He was a slave his entire life.