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WorksheetsCivil Rights & Social Movement Unit Exam Review
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
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1.
Which of the following affirmed the legality of racial segregation and prompted the passage of Jim Crow laws?
a)
the Fourteenth Amendment
b)
the Civil Rights Act of 1875
c)
the Decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
the decision in Morgan v. Virginia
2.
Which doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
a)
due process of law
b)
"separate but equal"
c)
"all deliberate speed"
d)
equal protection under the law
3.
According to the Kerner Commission, what was the main cause of urban violence?
a)
white racism
b)
school segregation
c)
black nationalism
d)
dejure segregation
4.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal in which of the following?
a)
houses
b)
churches
c)
private universities
d)
public accomodations
5.
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 enable federal officers to do?
a)
register voters
b)
oversee the collection of poll taxes
c)
oversee programs to test voter literacy
d)
recount votes
6.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in which activity?
a)
hiring an employee
b)
selling or renting a home
c)
awarding a construction contract
d)
admitting students to state universities
7.
Which of the following is not associated with the Black Power movement?
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Stokely Carmichael
c)
the Black Panthers
d)
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
8.
What was the main type of pressure exerted by the Montgomery Improvement Association in response to segregation on buses?
a)
social
b)
economic
c)
political
d)
physical force
9.
Which of the following was not advocated by the Black Panthers?
a)
nonviolence
b)
Black Power
c)
black nationalism
d)
community development
10.
Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?
a)
poll taxes
b)
Jim Crow laws
c)
a concentration of urban African Americans in slum areas
d)
a voter literacy test given to African Americans in the South
11.
Events such as ______ helped set the stage for the civil rights movement.
a)
the rise of the Black Power movement
b)
the Civil Rights Act of 1968
c)
better access to good jobs during World War II
d)
the policy of apartheid in South Africa
12.
The first organized protest by African Americans during the modern Civil Rights Movement was ______.
a)
the "children's crusade" in Birmingham
b)
the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
c)
the mass march on Washington, D.C.
d)
the Selma, Alabama, voting rights campaign
13.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a founder and the first president of the _____.
a)
Nation of Islam
b)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
c)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
d)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
14.
One accomplishment of the _____ was to bring about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities.
a)
Little Rock Nine
b)
Freedom Riders
c)
Black Panthers
d)
Montgomery bus boycott
15.
In the summer of 1964, thousands of white college students took part in _____.
a)
riots in Northern cities resulting from racial tensions
b)
a demonstration in support of integrating Southern colleges
c)
a funeral procession for Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
a campaign to register African American voters in Mississippi
16.
De jure segregation is segregation that results from _____.
a)
laws
b)
random chance
c)
habit and custom
d)
inequalities in education
17.
Appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, ______ predicted a militant approach to civil rights.
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
b)
Malcolm X
c)
Medgar Evans
d)
Fannie Lou Hamer
18.
Which of the following events marked the beginning of the decline of the Civil Rights movement?
a)
the conversion of Malcolm X to orthodox Islam
b)
the drifting apart of SNCC and SCLC
c)
the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
the assassination of Robert Kennedy
19.
One legacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years is _____.
a)
equal opportunity in housing
b)
affirmative action programs
c)
black participation in politics
d)
separate but equal facilities
20.
"You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with the underlying causes. It is unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963
In the passage above, to whom is Martin Luther King, Jr. writing?
-Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963
In the passage above, to whom is Martin Luther King, Jr. writing?
a)
local Ku Klux Klan leaders who harassed the Birmingham protesters
b)
local white clergy who attacked protests in Birmingham as being extreme and unjustified
c)
Eugene "Bull" Connor, who used police and firefighters to break up protests
d)
the SCLC, which was taking control of the Albany Movement
21.
Cause: __________.
Effect: the Twenty-Fourth amendment was passed.
Effect: the Twenty-Fourth amendment was passed.
a)
Most southern schools remained segregated
b)
Poll taxes used to keep many African Americans from voting
c)
No black delegates were seated in the Democratic National Convention in 1964
d)
Urban riots spread nationwide
22.
The success of sit-ins throughout the South led to the formation of which of the following organizations?
a)
CORE
b)
NAACP
c)
NOW
d)
SNCC
23.
Under whose leadership did SNCC abandon the philosophy of nonviolence?
a)
John Lewis
b)
Stokely Carmichael
c)
Malcolm X
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
24.
A cost of the Voter Education Project was people trying to register were often attacked by mobs, beaten, and jailed. A gain would be _____.
a)
The University of Georgia was required to admit African American students.
b)
More than a half-million new African American voters registered in the South
c)
President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964
d)
Business owners integrated stores and lunch counters
25.
Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown v. Board of Education case?
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
James Farmer
c)
Jackie Robinson
d)
Thurgood Marshall
26.
Public universities in Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas were only integrated after ______.
a)
the Supreme Court decided segregation in colleges were inherently unequal
b)
SNCC staged sit-ins on the public university campuses throughout the South
c)
the SCLC riveted naional attention on the violence that accompanied the enrollment of black students
d)
federal courts ordered states to integrate their higher education facilities
27.
In which of the following states did volunteers find it most difficult to register African Americans to vote?
a)
Arkansas
b)
Florida
c)
Georgia
d)
Mississippi
28.
What strategy did the NAACP adopt in its fight for civil rights?
a)
massive resistance
b)
attacking racism in the courts
c)
direct nonviolence
d)
sit-ins
29.
The Albany Movement was a failure because the police chief ____.
a)
ordered officers to turn fire houses on the protesters
b)
ordered the arrests of children
c)
refused to be provoked to violence and undercut Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts to publicity for the movement
d)
refused to negotiate with local civil rights leaders
30.
Why did President Eisenhower take three weeks to send federal troops to ensure the Little Rock Nine could enter school?
a)
Governor Orville Faubus had promised to protect the African American students
b)
School segregation had not yet been declared illegal
c)
The national media did not publicize the violence directed at the students enough to provoke a federal response
d)
President Eisenhower hoped the governor would back down without a federal involvement
31.
What did the Mississippi Democratic Party hope to accomplish at the 1964 Democratic National Convention?
a)
expose racism in the Democratic Party
b)
replace the existing Mississippi delegates with its own delegates
c)
compromise with the Democratic Party on who would represent Mississippi
d)
merge with the NAACP
32.
The organizers of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom were _____.
a)
unemployed African Americans asking Congress to approve affirmative action programs
b)
followers of Malcolm X
c)
trying to build support for the civil rights movement
d)
members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
33.
We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self- defense."
Which of the following groups most likely issued this statement?
Which of the following groups most likely issued this statement?
a)
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
b)
the Nation of Islam
c)
the Black Panther Party
d)
the NAACP
34.
Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. want to begin the Poor People's Campaign?
a)
He had grown up in poverty in Mississippi and felt inspired to protest for economic justice
b)
He had achieved his goal of securing voting rights for African Americans and wanted to help others
c)
He believed poverty disproportionately affected African Americans and kept all affected people from gaining true equality
d)
Basic rights for African Americans had still not been achieved and he felt the need to change tactics
35.
Studies of African American children found that one effect of segregated schools was that the children ____.
a)
believed in Black Power
b)
attended schools less often than did white children
c)
came to believe that they were not as good as white children
d)
felt very resentful of the advantages that white children enjoyed
36.
Why was the tactic of nonviolence so successful in achieving change?
a)
segregationists saw that there was nothing to fear from African Americans
b)
the violent response of segregationists provoked moral outrage in onlookers
c)
State governments stepped in to enforce the law and protect African American protesters.
d)
the moral stance of the protesters influenced Supreme Court justices in several key decisions
37.
What led to the decline of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s?
a)
John Lewis made SNCC more radical, rioting erupted in U.S. cities, and women's groups pressured the movement to become more egalitarian
b)
the Democratic National Convention rejected the demands of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the Kerner Commission issued a highly critical report on urban rioting.
c)
Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were assissinated, Freedom Summer was a failure, and civil rights opponent was elected president
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the movement lacked strong leadership, and radical civil rights groups were weakened by infiltration by the FBI
38.
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."
The quote above is from the text of the _____.
The quote above is from the text of the _____.
a)
La Raza Unida Party's declaration of purpose
b)
Feminine Mystique
c)
Equal Rights Amendment
d)
Declaration of Indian Purpose
39.
Cause: ________.
Effect: Revival of the women's movement
Effect: Revival of the women's movement
a)
Inequalities in the workforce, dissatisfaction in domestic life, and gender discrimination in the civil rights movement
b)
Implementation of the U.S. government's termination policy
c)
Passage of the ERA
d)
Emergence of feminists Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly
40.
The fair distribution of advantages and disadvantages in society is called ____.
a)
social justice
b)
La Raza Unida
c)
free speech
d)
feminism
41.
What student movement began at the University of California in Berkeley?
a)
CORE
b)
the sit-in movement
c)
the Summer of Love
d)
the free speech movement
42.
The Red Power movement succeeded in _____.
a)
eliminating unemployment on reservations
b)
bringing casinos to reservations
c)
dramatically lowering the high school dropout rate among Native Americans
d)
instilling a sense of pride in Native Americans around the nation
43.
What tactics did the National Organization for Women use to obtain goals?
a)
strikes against major employers
b)
establishment of institutions for women only
c)
violent protests
d)
lobbying politicians for change in laws
44.
What did John F. Kennedy's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women report about women in American society?
a)
Employers paid women less than men and promoted them less often
b)
Women preferred to work in service jobs
c)
Most women raised families and had careers
d)
Most women were happiest as wives, mothers, and homemakers
45.
What was a major criticism of the Equal Rights Amendment?
a)
the ERA would harm men's rights
b)
the ERA would not allow women to be drafted
c)
the ERA was a threat to traditional family life
d)
the ERA would give women too much legal protection
46.
What were the goals of the American Indian Movement?
a)
re-establishment of Indian ownership over Alcatraz Island and portions of Alaska
b)
passage of legislation granting better access to education and giving reservations resources to attract tourism
c)
A renewal of traditional cultures, economic independence, and better education for Native Americans
d)
an end to the termination policy and control over natural resouces
47.
What did Mexican Americans mean when they called themselves Chicanos?
a)
they were proud of their Cuban heritage
b)
they were proud of their Mexican heritage
c)
they were members of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes
d)
they wanted to return to Mexico
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