WorksheetsCivil Rights I
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The collection of laws meant to keep black people segregated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were collectively known as....
a)
Old Crow
b)
Grandfather Clause
c)
Old Granddad
d)
Jim Crow
2.
The Supreme Court case that codified segregation was...
a)
Gibbons v Ogden
b)
Brown v Board of Education
c)
Plessey v Ferguson
d)
Marbury v Madison
3.
The movement from the south to northern cities by many African Americans was known as...
a)
The Great Migration
b)
The Diaspora
c)
The Refugee Movement
d)
The Traveling Wilbughry's
4.
Segregation by law that existed throughout the south was known by this Latin term.
a)
E Pluribus Unum
b)
de jure
c)
sic semper tyrannies
d)
sin ne qua non
5.
Segregation based on custom was that existed in the north was known as...
a)
ex post facto
b)
de facto
c)
in facto
d)
ipso facto ergo
6.
The first major institution that was desegregated was...
a)
The schools
b)
The buses
c)
The restaurants
d)
The military
7.
The man who helped challenge racial segregation by playing baseball in the all white major leagues was...
a)
Jackie Robinson
b)
Jackie Collins
c)
Jackie Chan
d)
Joe Louis
8.
The Supreme Court case that struck down segregation in public institutions was
a)
Bakke v California
b)
Loving v Virginia
c)
Brown v Board
d)
Bush v Gore
9.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was made possible by the efforts of many people including these two important individuals.
a)
Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X
b)
WEB Dubois and Booker T Washington
c)
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakahn
10.
All of the following groups supported the rights of African Americans but this group was created by students to participate in lunch counter sit - ins among other activities.
a)
SNCC
b)
NAACP
c)
CORE
d)
SCLC
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