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Civil Rights

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A Civil Rights leader who helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Ruby Bridges

2.

A Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests.

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

3.

Civil Rights leader who believed that African Americans should take more direct methods to get there civil rights, but later changed his mind and believed that whites and blacks would have to work together to have equality.

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

John Lewis

4.

Non-violent protest, where African Americans sat in the white only sections of restaurants.

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

Freedom Marches

c)

Sit-ins

d)

Freedom Gardens

5.

A Civil Rights Movement that involved over 200,000 African Americans and White citizens gathering in Washington D.C.

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

b)

March on Washington

c)

Red Scare

d)

The Washington Jamboree

6.

Bus rides taken by African Americans and Whites into the Deep South to test the segregated interstate bus laws.

a)

March on Washington

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

Sit-ins

d)

Freedom Rides

7.

Amendment that freed all slaves.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

8.

The Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship rights and equal protection under the law.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

9.

The Amendment that gave African Americans males voting rights.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

10.

The President who sent laws to congress that would improve the civil rights of African Americans. He was assassinated before the laws went into effect.

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

11.

Laws passed mainly in the south that segregated the races.

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

d)

Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954

12.

Organization started by W.E.B. DuBois that helped to fight discrimination.

a)

NFL

b)

SNCC

c)

NAACP

d)

USSR

13.

What was the first thing that was desegregated in the United States?

a)

schools

b)

churches

c)

U.S. Military

d)

restaurants

14.

Who was one early leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Hank Aaron

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

Babe Ruth

15.

Who were the Little Rock Nine?

a)

9 African American baseball players.

b)

9 African American pilots who fought in WWII.

c)

9 students who sued the government to attend an all-white school in Arkansas.

d)

9 students who led sit-ins in North Carolina

16.

This court case led the the integration of schools in the United States.

a)

Plessy vs Ferguson

b)

Brown vs Board of Education

c)

Salem Witch Trials

d)

Civil Rights Act

17.

Which of these figures was NOT assassinated in the 1960s?

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

John F. Kennedy