WorksheetsBlack History Month Pre-Assessment
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins
What was the Civil Rights Movement about?
Equality of race (the color of one's skin)
Equality of gender (if someone is a boy or girl)
Equality of religion (what/who someone believes in)
What does the word "segregation" mean?
Being kept apart from other people
Including other people
How were black people treated in the 1960s?
Good. Black and white people got along well with each other.
Bad. Black people were separated from white people and were forced to go to worse schools.
What civil rights leader refused to give up his or her seat on the bus to a white person?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ruby Bridges
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream?
To become friends with Rosa Parks
To be treated equally
To visit Washington, D.C.
To have his own statue in Washington, D.C.
True or false: Ruby Bridges was the only black student who went to an all-white elementary school.
True
False
What effect did the Montgomery bus boycott have on the local bus company?
Less passengers rode the bus so the bus company received less money.
More passengers rode the bus so the bus company received more money.
The number of passengers stayed the same so the bus company received their usual amount of money.
Which of the following is NOT true about George Washington Carver?
He was the first African American to earn a college degree.
He was an agricultural (farming) scientist.
He invented hundreds of products using peanuts and other crops and helped poor farmers.
He was a slave his entire life.
