WorksheetsCivil rights in U.S.A.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who was Rosa Parks?
A middle aged white woman
An activist in the movement for civil rights
An afroamerican woman, not interested at all in civil rights
An opera singer
Why was Rosa Parks arrested?
For not getting off the bus when she had been told
Because she refused to give her seat to a younger white male
For resisting an arrest
Because she stepped in front of the bus and refused to let it go away
What was the Scottsboro case about?
Nine young blacks accused of raping two white women
Nine young whites accused of raping two black women
The kidnapping of two white women by a group of blacks
The beating of two white women by a group of blacks
The Jim Crows laws were applied ...
in all US States
in some US southern States
only in some northern States
in the United Kingdom
Which Amendments to the US Constitution were approved to end discrimination?
XVI, XVII and XVIII approved between 1913 and 1917
XI and XII approved between 1794 and 1804
I, II and III approved in 1789
XIII, XIV and XV approved between 1865 and 1870
How was it possible that the Jim Crows could survive despite the Amendments to the Constitution?
Because of the separate but equal rule
Because of the separation doctrine
Because the Amendments have to wait fifity yearts to be approved
Because the federal State didn't want to prevail over States
What happened after Jim Crows laws were abolished as they were declared against the constitution?
some of the Southern States closed public schools
all the States applied the law
Public schools were open, but no white pupils went to those
only northern States applied the law
How was the historical decision taken by the Supreme Court to end segregation in schools called?
Browns vs Board of Education, 1953
Plessy vs Ferguson, 1896
Smith vs Allwright , 1944
Boynton vs Virginia, 1960
Which US President had to send the army to let black students get into their schools and for how long?
D.D. Eishenower, for one year
J. F. Kennedy, for one month
G. Washington, for one week
J. J. Adams, for one day
What was the profession of Martin Luther King?
Law teacher
Reverend
Lawyer
All other answers are correct
