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1960s: A Decade of Change Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What Year Was JFK Killed
a)
1967
b)
1963
c)
1978
d)
1956
2.
The President that took over for JFK when he was assassinated was:
a)
Johnson
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Nixon
d)
Carter
3.
Court Case that overturned the 1896 Separate but Equal case was
a)
Brown v. Board of Education ,1954
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1964
d)
Tinker V. Des Moines
4.
What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?
a)
end poverty
b)
end drug trafficking
c)
end lynching
d)
fix the economy
5.
This provided low-cost medical insurance to people over 65
a)
Medicaid
b)
Medicare
c)
Head Start
d)
VISTA
6.
What case legalized segregation?
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board
c)
Scott v. Sanford
d)
Marbury v. Madison
7.
Which amendment abolished slavery?
a)
16th
b)
15th
c)
14th
d)
13th
8.
Who delivered the "I Have a Dream Speech"?
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Thurgood Marshall
d)
Dr. Martin Luther King
9.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Kennedy
c)
Johnson
d)
Nixon
10.
The lunch counter “sit-ins” were meant to
a)
antagonize the restaurant owners.
b)
draw attention to segregation and challenge the law.
c)
provoke police intervention.
d)
protest rising food costs
11.
Which of the following is an example of nonviolent protest?
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech before the MIA
b)
Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat
c)
the endorsement of the “Southern Manifesto”
d)
the NAACP’s lobbying to make lynching a federal crime
12.
During the early 1900s, Booker T. Washington supported a moderate strategy for attaining civilrights for African Americans, while W. E. B. Du Bois called for a more aggressive approach. During the 1960s, a similar difference emerged between —
a)
Rosa Parks and Marcus Garvey
b)
Barbara Jordan and Alice Walker
c)
Medgar Evers and Thurgood Marshall
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X
13.

The goal of the Freedom Rides was to

a)

end discrimination against disabled americans

b)

boycott interstate travel

c)

protest the Supreme Court rulings

d)

end discriminatory voting practices

14.

As a result of Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to move to the back of the bus

a)

other protesters got arrested

b)

the SCLC organized a bus boycott

c)

more voters registered in the South

d)

the National Guard was called in to enforce the law

15.

Resulted in the expansion of rights for minorities

a)

Sit-ins

b)

Freedom rides

c)

marches

d)

all of the answers are correct

16.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are called the Civil War amendments. They all have to do with rights for

a)

women

b)

slaves

c)

latinos

d)

children

17.

As a result of discrimination and bravery of minority service members, Truman issued an executive order to integrate the

a)

military

b)

schools

c)

whole country

d)

busses

18.

The 15th amendment gives the right to ____ to former slaves

a)

protest

b)

be a citizen

c)

go to school

d)

vote

19.

Eisenhower federalized the National Guard to allow the Little Rock Nine to

a)

sit at an all white lunch counter

b)

vote in a state election

c)

desegregate public schools

d)

sit where they want on a train car

20.

The act that bans discrimination based on gender in sports

a)

Title IX

b)

Roe v Wade

c)

Voting Rights Act

d)

24th Amendment

21.

What was the purpose of the Great Society program?

a)

segregate the military

b)

fund rural schools

c)

decrease poverty

d)

create affordable medical insurance

22.

Cesar Chavez and the Chicano civil rights movement supported

a)

schoolchildren

b)

women

c)

migrant workers

d)

Native Americans

23.

This group used armed protests to gain more rights after years of forced assimilation, limited rights, and second-class status

a)

Latinos

b)

Native Americans

c)

Women

d)

African Americans