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WorksheetsModern Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What event gave African Americans more opportunities before the Great Depression?
New Deal programs
World War II
Great Migration
Integration of the military
What Civil Rights organization was created during the Progressive Era?
CORE
SCLC
NAACP
SNCC
How did FDR and the New Deal improve opportunities for African Americans?
High level positions in the FDR administration
job opportunities in the WPA and CCC
insurance for the poor (Medicaid)
Headstart Program
What president integrated the U.S. military?
FDR
Truman
Ike
JFK
What team signed Jackie Robinson, integrating Major League baseball?
Atlanta Braves
New York Yankees
Washington Senators
Brooklyn Dodgers
What case did Brown v. B.O.E. of Topeka overturn?
Scott v. Sandford
Marbury v. Madison
Gideon v. Wainwright
Plessy v. Ferguson
What tactic was primarily employed by protesters after Rosa Parks was arrested?
sit-ins
boycotts
marches
lawsuits
What group did MLK and other Christian leaders form after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
SNCC
CORE
SCLC
NAACP
Where did Ike send the 101st Airborne Division to protect 9 African American students attempting to integrate?
Birmingham
Montgomery
Anniston
Little Rock
Where did the Sit-in Movement begin and what group formed shortly after?
Montgomery / SCLC
Birmingham / CORE
Greensboro / SNCC
Oakland / Black Panthers
What law was passed by Congress after the March on Washington?
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the Southern Manifesto?
A states' rights response to the Brown Decision
A states' rights response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
a states' rights response to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
an effort to slow down integration and equality for blacks
Approximately what % of African American students had integrated 10 years after the Brown Decision?
75%
50%
25%
2%
After the segregation was banned in 1964, what was the next major goal for the Civil Rights Movement in the deep south?
jobs
voting
interstate busing integration
protection from police brutality
After "Bloody Sunday" in Selma and the March to Montgomery, LBJ and Congress passed the ...
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Medicare Bill
Medicaid Bill
Voting Rights Act of 1965
LBJ's War on Poverty included all of the following except:
Head Start
Medicare
Food Stamp Act
Medicaid
The Black Panther Party was started primarily to:
end poverty in the inner city
protect African Americans against police brutality
help integrate schools
advocate self-defense
All of the following cities experienced violent race riots in the 1960's except:
Atlanta
Newark
L.A. (Watts)
Detroit
According to MLK, this city was the most segregated city in America.
Montgomery
Atlanta
Jackson
Birmingham
What did the Kerner Commission discover as the major cause for the race riots in America in the late 60's?
segregated schools
police brutality
poverty and discrimination
MLK assassination
Police must inform the accused of the right to remain silent:
Mapp v. Ohio
Gideon v. Wainwright
Yates v. U.S.
Escobedo v. IL
Accused must be provided an attorney if he cannot afford one:
Yates v. U.S.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Griswold v. CT
Miranda v. IL
Police must inform accused that he may have an attorney present while being questioned:
Miranda v. AZ
Engel v. Vitale
Mapp v. Ohio
Escobedo v. IL
Griswold v. CT involved the legalization of ...
marijuana
revolutionary speech
contraceptives
communist front organizations
What was the focus of Warren court?
property rights
privacy rights
rights of the accused
citizenship rights
