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WorksheetsCivil Rights Quizizz
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which group was intended to benefit the MOST from "Great Society" Programs?
a)
Minorities and Poor
b)
White Middle Class
c)
Farmers
d)
Businessmen
2.
What doctrine was overturned by Brown v Board?
a)
"Seperate but Equal"
b)
White Middle Due process
c)
Equal protection under law
d)
"Speedy Trail
3.
The ___________ brought about a federal ban on segregation in interstate travel.
a)
Little Rock 9
b)
Freedom Riders
c)
Black Panthers
d)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
4.
The Democratic convention of 1968 took place in what city?
a)
Chicago
b)
Detroit
c)
Chicago
d)
Los Angleses
5.
The most vocal antiwar movement led by students were attributed to what war?
a)
Vietnam
b)
Cold War
c)
WW2
d)
Korean
6.
What was name of the Viet Cong's largest/most damaging campaign of the Vietnam War?
a)
Tet Offensive
b)
Blitzkreg
c)
Nuremberg
d)
Beijing Offensive
7.
1960s, TV started showing presidential debates between
a)
Kennedy and Nixon
b)
Kennedy and Johnson
c)
Fear of Communism
d)
The Kennedy Debates
8.
What president integrated the U.S. Armed Forces
a)
Truman
b)
Johnson
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Kennedy
9.
What president integrated the U.S. Armed Forces
a)
Truman
b)
Johnson
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Kennedy
10.
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
a)
Lyndon B. Johnson
b)
JFK
c)
Nixon
d)
Truman
11.
Which law outlawed literacy tests to Vote
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
Plessy v Ferguson
d)
Brown v Board
12.
Which law prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, and gender?
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
Plessy v Ferguson
d)
Brown v Board
13.
Which court case called for the integration of public schools
a)
Plessy v Ferguson
b)
Santana v Montgomery
c)
Plessy v Shwartz
d)
Brown v Board
14.
JFK was assassinated in what city?
a)
Dallas, TX
b)
Atlanta, GA
c)
Fort Worth, TX
d)
New Orleans, LA
15.
Famous Chief Justice that helped Civil Rights in 1950s and 60s
a)
Thurgood Marshall
b)
Earl Warren
c)
Sandra Day Oconner
d)
Joseph McCarthy
16.
What president launched the "War on Poverty" by implementing his "Great Society"
a)
Johnson
b)
Warren
c)
Kennedy
d)
New Deal
17.
Plessy v Ferguson ruled that
a)
Racial Segregation was constitutional
b)
States could not secede
c)
All segregation legal in West
d)
Slaves may not be taken from their owners
18.
The president used his authority as Commander in Chief to which civil rights movement?
a)
Integration of Little Rock Schools
b)
Desegregation of City bus system
c)
arrest of MLK in Selma
d)
Assination of JFK in Texas
19.
What president during this era did the most for Civil Right
a)
Lyndon Johnson
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
FDR
d)
Ronald Reagan
20.
Which of the following was a component of LBJ's "Great Society" legislation?
a)
Medical care to the poor and elderly
b)
reducing federal education aid
c)
increased aid to USSR
d)
Opposing Civil Rights
21.
What event helped push the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through congress?
a)
JFK assination
b)
Johnsons Great Society
c)
Kennedys Peace Corps
d)
Vietnam War
22.
Whose assination resulted in passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress?
a)
MLK
b)
JFK
c)
Robert Kennedy
d)
FDR
23.
The first African American Supreme Court Justice was
a)
Martin Luther King
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Thurgood Marshall
d)
Earl Warren
24.
What state was the first to secede from the U.S. in the civil war
a)
GA
b)
SC
c)
NC
d)
FL
25.
What Amendment ended slavery?
a)
13
b)
14
c)
15
d)
16
26.
How was Massachusetts Bay Colony dramatically different from Virginia?
a)
Virginia were all familites; Mass Bay were single men
b)
Mass Bay were all familites; Virginia were single men
c)
Mass Bay were Women; Virginia were Females
d)
There were no differences
27.
What state did popular sovereignty over slavery have BAD consequences?
a)
Nebraska
b)
Maine
c)
Missouri
d)
Kansas
28.
The president acted as commander in Chief in response to
a)
refusal of Arkansas to integrate Little Rock School
b)
Freedom Riders
c)
Arrest of MLK in Selma
d)
JFK Assiniation
29.
African American voting experience a huge rise because of
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
Brown v Board
d)
Miranda v Davis
30.
Police officers have to tell suspects about their rights due to (Miranda Rights)
a)
Miranda v Arizona
b)
Boydon v Virginia
c)
Roe v Wade
d)
Brown v Board
31.
MLK's "I have a dream" speech occured where?
a)
Washington D.C.
b)
Selma
c)
Montgomery
d)
Birmingham
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