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WorksheetsAmerican History Second Semester Review: Civil Rights post WWII
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was NOT a result of the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
protected African American voting rights
b)
made segregation illegal
c)
eliminated poverty
d)
gave African Americans a new sense of ethnic pride
2.
What was the main purpose of the Freedom Riders?
a)
desegregation of restaurants
b)
desegregation of interstate buses
c)
desegregation of schools
d)
desegregation of trains
3.
Which court case stated that "separate but equal" was not constitutional? ( Think about Schools)
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Korematsu v. United States
d)
Roe v. Wade
4.
Which court case stated that it was ok for Blacks and Whites to be separate as long as they were "equal"?
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Roe v. Wade
d)
Carter v. the State of Alabama
5.
_____________ believed that Whites were the cause of the problems for Blacks and agreed with using physically violence when necessary.
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Malcolm X
6.
What were the "Little Rock Nine" trying to do?
a)
Join a college in Mississippi
b)
Integrate the lunch counters in Little Rock
c)
Enroll in a High School that was segregated
d)
Keep Black students from enrolling in their all-white school
7.
Dr. King said that "an unjust law is no law at all." What did he mean by this?
a)
That society was a survival of the fittest and we need to be strong
b)
That Jim Crow Laws are unfair, but hard to change
c)
That church and state need to be kept separate
d)
That if a law is wrong, it should not be followed
8.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 tried to ___________.
a)
limit the speech of African Americans
b)
desegregate the Air Force
c)
end racial and gender discrimination
d)
give immigrants a voice in Congress
9.
___________ helped cause Congress and the President to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
a)
Freedom Summer
b)
Freedom Ride
c)
March on Washington
d)
Selma March
10.
How did Whites in the South try to stop Blacks from voting?
a)
literacy tests and violence
b)
bribery and extortion
c)
changing the day that people voted
d)
not telling them who was running for office
11.
Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up a seat in the front of the bus to a white man.
a)
Martin Luther King Jr
b)
James Meredith
c)
Medgar Evers
d)
Rosa Parks
12.
Leader that advocated the Black Power Movement.
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Orval Faubus
d)
Malcolm X
13.
Leader of the SCLC
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Stokely Carmichael
c)
Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
Rosa Parks
14.
Founded to make better use of young Civil Rights workers
a)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
b)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
c)
KKK
d)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
15.
Argued Brown VS. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and then became the first Black Supreme Court Justice
a)
Stokely Carmichael
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Thurgood Marshall
d)
Orval Faubus
16.
Refusing to obey laws you believe are unjust (Method advocated by MLK Jr.)
a)
Civil Rights
b)
Civil Disobedience
c)
Segregation
d)
Idealism
17.
What group funded the court challenges to segregation in the 1950s?
a)
ACLU
b)
NAACP
c)
KKK
d)
Congress
18.
Whom of the following was murdered and displayed in an open casket?
a)
Thurgood Marshall
b)
Homer Plessy
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Emmit Til
19.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Kennedy
c)
Johnson
d)
Nixon
20.
What is the name of the group of African American students who were enrolled into an all white high school but faced heavy backlash?
a)
Freedom Riders
b)
Little Rock Nine
c)
The Squad
d)
Montomery Men
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