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Civil Rights

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year was Plessy vs Ferguson?

a)

1893

b)

1896

c)

1898

d)

1880

2.

What is a Jim Crow law?

a)

A law that stops black Americans

from going to school

b)

A law that desegregates black and

white American

c)

A law that declared 'separate but

equal'

d)

A law that segregates black and

white Americans

3.

What did Plessy vs Ferguson state?

a)

Desegregation

b)

Separate but equal

4.

How old was Emmett Till when he

was murdered?

a)

12

b)

23

c)

14

d)

16

5.

What year was Emmett Till

murdered?

a)

1957

b)

1960

c)

1955

d)

1945

6.

What happened to Roy and Milam Bryant when they went to trial?

a)

They were sent to prison

b)

They were acquitted

c)

They were executed

d)

They were let out on bail

7.

Rosa Parks did what?

a)

Was a lawyer in Emmett Till's murder trial

b)

Rioted against the police

c)

Was a white supremacist

d)

Refused to move on a bus

8.

How long was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

320 Days

b)

381 Days

c)

367 Days

d)

360 Days

9.

What year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

1953

b)

1955

c)

1960

d)

1963

10.

What were the results of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

Alabama ended segregation on public transport

b)

Alabama ended segregation altogether

c)

Alabama ended segregation in rest rooms

d)

Alabama ended segregation in schools

11.

What year was the Brown vs Board of Education?

a)

1957

b)

1956

c)

1955

d)

1954

12.

What did the Brown vs Board of Education case decide?

a)

Segregation in toilets was unconstitutional

b)

Segregation on transport was unconstitutional

c)

Segregation in schools was unconstitutional

d)

Segregation in hospitals was unconstitutional

13.

What year was the Little Rock High School event?

a)

1957

b)

1956

c)

1955

d)

1954

14.

What state is Little Rock High School in?

a)

Alabama

b)

Arkansas

c)

New York

d)

Mississippi

15.

Who was the president that intervened during Little Rock High School?

a)

President Eisenhower

b)

President Kennedy

c)

President Johnson

d)

President Lincoln

16.

Who were the Little Rock Nine stopped by?

a)

The US Army

b)

The US Navy

c)

The National Guard

d)

The KKK

17.

What year were the Greensboro Sit Ins?

a)

1962

b)

1961

c)

1960

d)

1959

18.

How many students were refused service at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro?

a)

3

b)

7

c)

5

d)

4

19.

How many students eventually joined in with the sit ins?

a)

160

b)

200

c)

182

d)

300

20.

What year was the March on Washington?

a)

1961

b)

1962

c)

1963

d)

1964

21.

What speech did Martin Luther King give at the March on Washington?

a)

I Have A Dream

b)

The Struggle for Human Rights

c)

The Perils of Indifference

d)

Freedom or Death

22.

What was signed in 1964?

a)

The Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The Fair Housing Act

c)

The 15th Amendment

d)

The Civil Rights Act

23.

What did the Civil Rights Act, 1964 declare?

a)

It outlawed desegregation

b)

It outlawed slavery

c)

It outlawed segregation

24.

Who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

a)

President Nixon

b)

President Kennedy

c)

President Bush

d)

President Johnson

25.

What did the Voting Rights Act declare?

a)

Black Americans couldn't vote

b)

No one was to be denied the vote based on 'account of race or colour'

c)

Women were allowed to vote

26.

What year was the Fair Housing Act?

a)

1967

b)

1968

c)

1979

d)

1970