WorksheetsVoting Rights Act & Selma March
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses were ________.
a)
fair voting practices that marchers in
Selma wanted the government to
guarantee
b)
used to prevent African Americans from
voting
c)
used by northern states to register
thousands of voters
d)
not used until after the Voting Rights Act
was passed
2.
In Selma, Alabama, ________ prevented African Americans from voting.
a)
unfair voting practices
b)
hate groups including the Ku Klux Klan
c)
the sheriff and a deputized posse of
citizens
d)
all of the above
3.
Which of the following describes the correct order of events?
a)
1. African Americans are denied the right
to vote.
2. African Americans organize marches
for voting rights in Alabama.
3. The Voting Rights Act is signed.
b)
1. The Voting Rights Act is signed.
2. African Americans are denied the right
to vote.
3. African Americans organize marches
for voting rights in Alabama.
c)
1. African Americans are denied the right
to vote.
2. The Voting Rights Act is signed.
3. African Americans organize marches
for voting rights in Alabama.
d)
1. The Voting Rights Act is signed.
2. African Americans organize marches
for voting rights in Alabama.
3. African Americans are denied the right
to vote.
4.
The marchers planned to go from Selma to ________.
a)
Jackson, Mississippi
b)
Atlanta, Georgia
c)
Montgomery, Alabama
d)
Raleigh, North Carolina
5.
What happened to the first march?
a)
The sheriff allowed the marchers to cross
the bridge and leave Selma.
b)
The march was canceled because of a
storm.
c)
The sheriff and his posse beat the
marchers and stopped them from leaving
Selma
d)
The sheriff tried to stop the marchers but
didn’t arrive in time to do so.
6.
True or false: The nation didn’t learn about the events of Bloody Sunday until 1968 because it wasn’t televised.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
The Voting Rights Act ________.
a)
protected African Americans’ right to vote
through federal law
b)
made it legal for African Americans to
vote for the first time
c)
made it legal for African Americans to
march peacefully
d)
was deemed unconstitutional and
repealed in 1966
8.
Who signed the Voting Rights Act?
a)
President John F. Kennedy
b)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
c)
President Richard M. Nixon
d)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
9.
What is one thing the Voting Rights Act did?
a)
required more grandfather clauses
b)
banned literacy tests
c)
banned absentee voting
d)
automatically registered all adults to vote
10.
What happened as a result of the Voting Rights Act?
a)
the number of registered black voters
increased by hundreds of thousands
b)
election day was changed to a
Wednesday
c)
a large number of white people moved to
the South
d)
the number of white voters decreased by
hundreds of thousands
100 %
