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WorksheetsCivil Rights Pop Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
14.Which of these describes the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Bans employer discrimination and public segregation
Bans voter intimidation and literacy tests
Bans poll taxes
Students can join any school activity regardless of gender
What was the significance of sending federal troops to protect African American students in Little Rock in 1957?
It led to a federal takeover of many Southern public schools.
It strengthened control of education by state governments
It was the first time martial law was declared in the US
It showed the government would enforce Brown v. Board of education
Which view was shared by Governor Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, and George Wallace in the 1950s and 1960s?
Separate but equal has no place in education
African Americans should have equal rights.
People of different races should not mix in public places, like schools.
The federal government should intervene to end racial discrimination
The movements led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Cesar Chavez were similar in that both -
supported attempts to overthrow the government
Used nonviolent civil disobedience to bring about social change
Boycotted agricultural crops
Were elected to national political office
What was a major goal of the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
to gain citizenship and representation in Congress
to relocated American Indian to urban areas
to obtain greater understanding of the American-Indian point of view
to end segregation American Indians in public places
How did the methods advocated by the Black Panthers to achieve their goals differ from thsoe of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
They formed a third political party
They were passionately anti-Communist
They restricted their actions to the use of passive resistance
They considered the use of violence to protect their own communities
Which Supreme Court case ended the segregation of public schools in the United States in 1954?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Hernandez v. Texas
Edgewood v. Kirby
