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WorksheetsCivil Rights
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
College students used _____ to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.
sit-ins
freedom rides
speeches
death threats
Segregation is ...
separate facilities for minority groups
racial segregation separated african americans and whites
separate but equal, were usually not equal
all of the above
Integration is ...
desegregation (opposite of segregation)
creating equal opportunities
combining african americans and whites
all of the above
Protesters rode buses to protest segregation in train/bus stations, the bus trips were called:
segregation
freedom rides
boycott
integration rides
What was the cause of Jim Crow laws being created?
Black Codes
Emancipation Proclamation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Which president is responsible for desegregating the armed forces?
Roosevelt
Truman
Kennedy
Johnson
What caused the abuses of Jim Crow laws to be known by everyone?
the bus boycott
the march on Washington
television
radio
Name the civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sojourner Truth
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Name the civil rights leader who was Islamic and believed white Americans would never support equal rights.
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Booker T. Washington
Name the civil rights leader who was a minister and believed in peaceful protest.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
What did the civil rights movement accomplish?
It immediately improved rights for women.
It improved rights and opportunities for African Americans.
It improved the rights for Japanese Americans.
It gave all African American men jobs.
How did television help the civil rights movement?
It brought entertainment to those who were being punished.
It distracted those who were part of the civil rights.
It gave African Americans performance opportunities.
Average Americans were able to see the violence and protests.
The Civil Rights Act declared that ...
discrimination could not be based on someone's effort
discrimination could not be based on race, color, or origin
discrimination based on ability to perform a job was illegal
discrimination could not be based on gender
Separate but equal and segregation in public schools was made illegal because of ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Which laws were aimed at ending discrimination?
14th Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
All of the above
The Voting Rights Act caused (more or less) African Americans to vote in the South?
more
less
The court case that made separate but equal legal was ...
Brown v. Board of Education
Massey v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Bus Boycott
How did Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplish his goals?
civil disobedience and nonviolence
civil disobedience and violence
aggressive and violent protests
segregation and violent actions
