WorksheetsCivil Rights/Kennedy and Johnson
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Who was the first African American in the MLB?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jackie Robinson
Larry Doby
Don Newcombe
Which organization worked through the courts to challenge segregation laws?
SNCC
NCAA
SCLC
NAACP
What Supreme Court decision integrated schools?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Boynton v. Virgina
Brown v. Board of Education
Browder v. Gayle
Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience sparked what event that lasted about a year?
Brown v. Board of Education
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Little Rock Nine
The Freedom Rides
Which pastor became the spokesperson for the bus boycott and the Civil Rights movement?
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
James Meredith
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the main lawyer for the NAACP, known as Mr. Civil Rights?
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
James Meredith
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the first African American to attend Ole Miss?
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
James Meredith
Martin Luther King Jr.
What group of African American students enrolled at Central High School in Arkansas and had to be escorted by the National Guard?
The Little Rock Nine
The Montgomery Six
The Greensboro Four
SNCC
Involving people of different races
Biracial
racial
Interracial
Segracial
What organization, led by MLK and other Baptist leaders, encouraged nonviolent protest?
SNCC
CORE
NAACP
SCLC
Who inspired MLK in methods of civil disobedience?
Thurgood Marshall
Henry David Thoreau
Gandhi
John Lewis
Which Supreme Court decision integrated all transportation facilities?
Boynton v. Virginia
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Browder v. Gayle
What is the name of the group of people who sought to test the Boynton v. Virginia decision in which many ended up arrested or subject to violence?
The Greensboro Four
The Little Rock Nine
CORE
Freedom Riders
A protest in which people would go to segregated lunch counters and remain there until arrested or served
sit down strike
lunch counter strike
sit-in strike
sit strike
A student organization that focused on nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement
SNCC
SCLC
NAACP
SCNN
During the Civil Rights Movement, what city was considered the most racist in America?
Montgomery
Selma
Atlanta
Birmingham
Which of the following does NOT describe civil rights activities in Birmingham?
The people welcomed marchers and protestors.
Trained police dogs attacked marchers.
Marchers were beaten up and many were arrested.
Police used high powered water hoses on protestors.
Which president helped MLK get out of jail, appointed African Americans to government jobs, and tried to get a Civil Rights bill passed?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
What event was designed to bring attention to the Civil Rights bill and was where King delivered his "I have a Dream" speech?
March on Washington
Selma March
March on Birmingham
Atlanta March
Who was president when the Civil Rights bill finally passed?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Which of the following is TRUE of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
It banned discrimination in voter registration and in public places.
It refused money to businesses practicing discrimination.
It banned discrimination based on race, sex, and religion.
All of these
What piece of legislation banned literacy and other discriminatory laws blocking voting rights?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
24th Amendment
The Voting Bill
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
What piece of legislation outlawed the poll tax?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
24th Amendment
The Voting Bill
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who converted to Islam and rejected integration, but eventually changed his views on the separation of races?
Bobby Seale
Huey Newton
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
A movement that supported economic self-sufficiency, racial pride, and separation from whites
Black Nationalism
Black Power
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
A political slogan that encouraged the rights and political power of African Americans
Black Nationalism
Black Power
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
Racial segregation created by law
De Juno Segregation
De Facet Segregation
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
Racial segregation created by social conditions such as poverty
De Juno Segregation
De Facet Segregation
De Jure Segregation
De Facto Segregation
A militant political organization that fought for African American rights
The Black Jaguars
Black Power
CORE
The Black Panthers
He was a Civil Rights activist in Mississippi who was assassinated in 1963.
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Medgar Evers
Bobby Seale
Which of the following people were assassinated during the Civil Rights movement period?
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Robert F. Kennedy
All of these
Which of the following BEST describes how Malcolm X was killed?
He was shot by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald during a parade.
He was killed by three men from the Nation of Islam.
He was murdered while standing on a balcony.
He was shot after winning the Democratic primary in California.
Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.?
James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
Sirhan Sirhan
Byron De La Beckwith
Who was a leader of the Black Panthers and of the Black Power movement?
Bobby Seale
Stokely Carmichael
Barack Obama
Huey Newton
During the election of 1960, newspapers became the communications method of choice for election information.
True
False
Kennedy was a young candidate and became the first Catholic president.
True
False
A public endorsement of a politicians programs or proposals
endorsement
approval rating
mandate
apportionment
A name used to describe Kennedy's proposals to improve the economy, assist the poor, and speed up the space program
The Great Society
The Fair Deal
The Third New Deal
The New Frontier
Who was president during the passage of the 24th Amendment?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
None of these
What was the first nuclear weapons agreement in history called that banned nuclear testing above ground?
SALT I
The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
START I
The Nuclear Weapons Testing Treaty
Kennedy set the goal for the U.S. to be the first country to put a man in space.
True
False
Who was the first American to complete three orbits around the Earth?
Alan Shepherd
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Alan Shepherd
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
Who was the Cuban dictator who came to power in 1959 and established a communist government?
Raul Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Enrique Pilar
What was the name of the failed operation to overthrow Castro that ended in shame for the U.S.?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs
The Berlin Crisis
The Cuban Hostage Crisis
What did Khrushchev build to stop the flow of people moving from Berlin to West Germany?
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Barrier
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Wall
What was the terrifying standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before?
The Berlin Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Vietnam War
The Soviets installed missiles in Cuba in response to the U.S. installing them in Turkey.
True
False
Which of the following choices did Kennedy consider for how to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Have further peace talks
Invade Cuba
Blockade around Cuba
Bomb the missile sites
Kennedy decided on a blockade, but called it a "quarantine" to imply the U.S. was not seeking a confrontation.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT true about the end of and after effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviets would remove the missiles if the U.S. would remove the ones in Turkey and stop the blockade.
Khrushchev and Kennedy quit speaking to each other.
The two countries signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The two countries continued making conventional bombs.
A vast cooperative effort to satisfy the basic needs of people in North, Central, and South America for homes, work, land, health, and schools
The World Health Organization
The United Nations
The Peace Corps
The Alliance for Progress
What organization sends volunteers abroad as educators, health care workers, and technicians to help developing nations around the world?
The World Health Organization
The United Nations
The Peace Corps
The Alliance for Progress
On what date was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
July 20, 1969
November 22, 1963
February 20, 1962
April 4, 1968
Who was the prime suspect in the Kennedy assassination?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
James Earl Ray
Byron De La Beckwith
Who was the Dallas nightclub owner who shot Oswald?
Jack Ruby
James Earl Ray
Byron De La Beckwith
Ernest Jones
According to the Constitution, after an assassination, a person officially becomes president once that person is officially sworn in to office.
True
False
What was the group called that President Johnson commissioned to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
The Johnson Commission
The President's Assassination Committee
The Warren Commission
The Warren Committee
The Warren Commission concluded that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy and was more than likely planned by a foreign government.
True
False
Lyndon B. Johnson was a very likable person who enjoyed his role as vice president.
True
False
What was the name for Johnson's goals for the U.S. that focused on poverty relief, education aid, healthcare, voting rights, conservation and beautification programs, urban renewal, and economic development in depressed areas?
The New Frontier
The Second New Deal
The Great Society
The Fair Deal
This program was part of the Great Society and sought to help the nation's poor through creating programs dedicated to stopping poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment.
HeadStart
VISTA
Poverty Program
The War on Poverty
This program was a part of Social Security and provided low-cost health insurance for the poor.
Medicaid
Welfare Healthcare
Medicare
Medishare
During the Johnson years, this rule was established by the Supreme Court that requires law enforcement agencies to warn a suspect of his or her rights before being questioned.
The Arizona Rule
The Manhattan Rule
The Miranda Rule
The Arrest Rights Rule
Which of the following were effects of the Great Society?
It cut poverty in half in the U.S.
Many Americans felt it made the poor too dependent on the government.
It decreased the number of Americans getting government-funded health insurance.
Spending on Vietnam greatly took away from the Great Society's programs.
Johnson believed in containing communism and deeply involved the U.S. in the conflict in Vietnam.
True
False
