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Civil rights in U.S.A.

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Rosa Parks?

a)

A middle aged white woman

b)

An activist in the movement for civil rights

c)

An afroamerican woman, not interested at all in civil rights

d)

An opera singer

2.

Why was Rosa Parks arrested?

a)

For not getting off the bus when she had been told

b)

Because she refused to give her seat to a younger white male

c)

For resisting an arrest

d)

Because she stepped in front of the bus and refused to let it go away

3.

What was the Scottsboro case about?

a)

Nine young blacks accused of raping two white women

b)

Nine young whites accused of raping two black women

c)

The kidnapping of two white women by a group of blacks

d)

The beating of two white women by a group of blacks

4.

The Jim Crows laws were applied ...

a)

in all US States

b)

in some US southern States

c)

only in some northern States

d)

in the United Kingdom

5.

Which Amendments to the US Constitution were approved to end discrimination?

a)

XVI, XVII and XVIII approved between 1913 and 1917

b)

XI and XII approved between 1794 and 1804

c)

I, II and III approved in 1789

d)

XIII, XIV and XV approved between 1865 and 1870

6.

How was it possible that the Jim Crows could survive despite the Amendments to the Constitution?

a)

Because of the separate but equal rule

b)

Because of the separation doctrine

c)

Because the Amendments have to wait fifity yearts to be approved

d)

Because the federal State didn't want to prevail over States

7.

What happened after Jim Crows laws were abolished as they were declared against the constitution?

a)

some of the Southern States closed public schools

b)

all the States applied the law

c)

Public schools were open, but no white pupils went to those

d)

only northern States applied the law

8.

How was the historical decision taken by the Supreme Court to end segregation in schools called?

a)

Browns vs Board of Education, 1953

b)

Plessy vs Ferguson, 1896

c)

Smith vs Allwright , 1944

d)

Boynton vs Virginia, 1960

9.

Which US President had to send the army to let black students get into their schools and for how long?

a)

D.D. Eishenower, for one year

b)

J. F. Kennedy, for one month

c)

G. Washington, for one week

d)

J. J. Adams, for one day

10.

What was the profession of Martin Luther King?

a)

Law teacher

b)

Reverend

c)

Lawyer

d)

All other answers are correct