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WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is it called when African Americans would sit at "whites-only" lunch counter to protest segregation?
Boycott
School
Bus
Sit-in
Which act banned segregation in public places and outlawed discrimination in the workplace?
The Freedom Summer Act
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Segregation in schools was declared unconstitutional because of...
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
the Children's March
the March on Washington
During the _____________, civil rights groups worked to expand black voting in the South by registering black voters in Mississippi.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Children's March
Freedom Summer
March on Washington
A ___________________ required a person to prove they could read before they could register to vote.
literacy test
sit-in
economic boycott
poll tax
Based on the idea of "separate but equal," segregation was declared legal by
Brown v. Board of Education
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Plessy v. Ferguson
the March on Washington
A ________________ required a person to pay a fee before being able to vote.
literacy test
poll tax
sit-in
economic boycott
This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Movement
24th Amendment
The goal of a ________________ is to encourage a business to change by having people refuse to buy their products.
literacy test
poll tax
economic boycott
sit-in
During the ____________________, many of the young participants who peacefully protested segregation were arrested and threatened with police dogs.
Children's March
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Summer
The _____________________ was intended to protect the buyer or renter of a dwelling from seller or landlord discrimination.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education
Fair Housing Act of 1968
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Civil Rights Movement?
Social Equality
Political Equality
Philosophical Equality
Economic Equaltiy
Which of the following groups was NOT heavily involved in the CRM?
SNCC
NCAA
CORE
SCLC
