WorksheetsTopic 16 Civil Rights/JFK/LBJ
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 28mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
a)
Sweatt v. Painter
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
2.
Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Sweatt v. Painter
d)
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
3.
Eliminated Poll Taxes in Federal Elections.
a)
24th Amendment
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Brown v. Board of Education
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
4.
Eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes in all elections.
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
d)
Affirmative Action
5.
Effort to desegregate interstate transportation by integrated passengers riding buses from the north to the south.
a)
Sit-Ins
b)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
c)
Freedom Rides
d)
Black Star Cruiseline
6.
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
a)
Sit-In
b)
Freedom Rides
c)
Selma March
d)
Filibuster
7.
Group working for Civil Rights that promoted "Black Power"
a)
NAACP
b)
SNCC
c)
Black Panthers
d)
Southern Democrats
8.
Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?
a)
Charlayne Hunter
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Rebecca L. Felton
9.
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
10.
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi and was shot in his one man march against fear
a)
MLK Jr
b)
Malcolm X
c)
James Meredith
d)
Rosa Parks
11.
Wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail
a)
MLK Jr
b)
Malcolm X
c)
James Meredith
d)
Booker T Washington
12.
Which Civil Rights leader followed the idea of separatism of Blacks and Whites?
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
b)
Malcolm X
13.
A Movement encouraging African American Pride and political and social leadership:
a)
Affirmative Actionq
b)
Black Power
c)
Prejudice
d)
Civil Rights
14.
What type of pressure was used by the Montgomery Improvement Association when it boycotted the segregation of buses?
a)
social
b)
economic
c)
political
d)
physical
15.
SNCC members used this strategy to desegregate lunch counters throughout the South.
a)
boycotts
b)
sit-ins
c)
protests
d)
marches
16.
The Black Panthers believed in all of the following EXCEPT
a)
nonviolence
b)
Black Power
c)
black nationalism
d)
community development
17.
Which of these is de facto segregation?
a)
poll taxes
b)
Jim Crow laws
c)
concentration of Blacks in slum areas
d)
voter literacy tests
18.
De jure segregation is segregation based in
a)
laws
b)
random chance
c)
habit and custom
d)
inequalities in education
19.
This provided low-cost medical insurance to people over 65
a)
Medicaid
b)
Medicare
c)
Head Start
d)
VISTA
20.
Reasons that Kennedy defeated Nixon included:
a)
Television Debates
b)
The Berlin Crisis
c)
His military policy
d)
Kennedy's Age
21.
What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?
a)
end poverty
b)
end drug trafficking
c)
end lynching
d)
fix the economy
22.
Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?
a)
Minorities and the poor
b)
White, middle-class families
c)
Farmers and laborers
d)
Businessmen
23.
What Great Society program provided health care to the poor?
a)
Medicare
b)
Medicaid
24.
What Great Society program provided health care to the elderly?
a)
Medicare
b)
Medicaid
25.
What was Johnson's plan for providing civil rights, medical, environmental, and social programs for Americans called?
a)
New Frontier
b)
Great Society
c)
New Deal
d)
New Society
26.
What organization was created to provide humanitarian aid to developing nations?
a)
Peace Corps
b)
NATO
c)
NAFTA
d)
United Nations
27.
What was JFK's plan for America?
a)
Great Society
b)
New Frontier
c)
New Deal
d)
Square Deal
28.
What was unique about the election of 1960 (specifically the debates)?
a)
They were on radio
b)
They were on TV
c)
They were live on Instagram
d)
They were held in foreign countries
29.
Who was the Republican nominee for president in the election of 1960?
a)
Richard Nixon
b)
John Kennedy
c)
Dwight Eisenhower
d)
Lyndon Johnson
30.
Who was the Democratic nominee for president in the election of 1960?
a)
John Kennedy
b)
Robert Kennedy
c)
Lyndon Johnson
d)
Richard Nixon
31.
Of the following, who helped African Americans through the court system the most? (Lawyer for NAACP and Supreme Court Justice)
a)
JFK
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Nixon
d)
MLK, Jr.
32.
Because of this now police have to inform the suspect about their rights.
a)
Mapp v. Ohio
b)
Miranda v. Arizona
c)
Brown v. Board of Education
d)
Gideon v. Wainwright
33.
What amendment (and part) is at issue in Miranda v Arizona
a)
1st - prayer
b)
1st -- assembly
c)
4th
d)
5th
34.
What court case ordered that police must inform those who are arrested of what their Constitutional rights are (right to due process and against self-incrimination)?
a)
Griswold v. Connecticut
b)
Miranda v. Arizona
c)
Gitlow v. New York
d)
Roe v. Wade
35.
What march was organized by MLK and advocated for equal voting rights?
a)
Selma
b)
Montgomery
c)
Memphis
d)
Birmingham
36.
This NAACP lawyer used the 14th Amendment to work to integrate public schools
a)
Truman
b)
Marshall
c)
Scalia
d)
O'Connor
37.
This president sent federal troops to Arkansas to integrate the schools in Little Rock
a)
Truman
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Kennedy
38.
These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High
a)
Elite Eight
b)
Little Rock Nine
c)
Arkansas Seven
d)
Final Four
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