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1950's to Present

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does segregation mean?

a)

Separation

b)

Together

c)

Close

d)

Slavery

2.

After the Civil War, what was passed that made segregation legal?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Civil Rights

3.

Which of the following was segregated?

a)

Bathrooms

b)

Schools

c)

Buses

d)

All of the above

4.
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
a)
allow children to work.
b)
to pay black people less than white people.
c)
to return a slave.
d)
to segregate schools.
5.

Who was the lawyer that helped the Browns succeed in desegregating schools?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Linda Brown

d)

Thurgood Marshall

6.

What was the name given when African Americans refused to ride the bus in act of a protest for equal rights?

a)

March on Washington

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

Brown V Board

d)

Plessy V Ferguson

7.

What years did the Civil Rights movement take place?

a)

2010 - 2018

b)

1800 - 1850

c)

1950 - 1975

d)

1850 - 1900

8.

Pastor from Alabama who led the Civil Rights Movement by organizing non violent protests

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

John F. Kennedy

9.

Which amendment eliminated poll taxes?

a)

19th Amendment

b)

24th Amendment

c)

26th Amendment

d)

14th Amendment

10.

This act outlawed discrimination of any kind

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Voting Rights Act

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

19th Amendment

11.

Terrorist group that was blamed for the events from 9/11/2001

a)

Kamikazee

b)

Plane Jackers

c)

Al Qaeda

d)

Japanese Bombers

12.

What was the Voting Rights Act responsible for?

a)

Lowering the voting age

b)

desegregating schools

c)

allowing blacks free seat choices on buses

d)

banning literacy tests

13.

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when the country fell apart?

a)

Josef Stalin

b)

Mikhail Gorbachev

c)

Nikita Khrushchev

d)

Ronald Reagan

14.

Who made the statement "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" and was president at the end of the Cold War?

a)

Ronald Reagan

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Robert Kennedy

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

15.

President who signed the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Robert Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Harry Truman

16.

Which amendment allowed African American men to vote?

a)

15th

b)

17th

c)

19th

d)

21st

17.

Helped lead nonviolent protests for farm workers in California

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Robert Kennedy

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Cesar Chavez

18.

What became very popular in the American household in the 1960's?

a)

Computers

b)

Laptops

c)

Video Games

d)

TVs

19.

Which two countries competed in the Space Race?

a)

Russia and Japan

b)

Soviet Union and United States

c)

Hawaii and United States

d)

North Korea and South Korea

20.

Allows computers to communicate with each other

a)

internet

b)

ETHERNET

c)

comcast

d)

cellular data