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Civil Rights Review 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

There was a growth in political engagement by minorities with the passage of legislation to end-

a)

Literacy tests, voter intimidation, and gerrymandering

b)

Poll taxes, sit-ins, and freedom rides

c)

Labor unions, marches, and protests

d)

Literacy tests, integration, and desegregation

2.

Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Tinker v. Des Moines

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

3.

The Civil Rights Movement is mostly characterized by-

a)

non-violent civil disobedience

b)

violence and riots

c)

economic prosperity

d)

political corruption

4.

Which court case that declared segregation in schools LEGAL?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

5.

What were causes of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s?

a)

The Civil War and Reconstruction helped to end slavery, but did not end racism.

b)

Jim Crow Laws existed mainly in the South and originated from Black Codes.

c)

Nonviolent protests became the strongest tool in the fight for equal rights.

d)

Segregation was used to maintain white supremacy.

6.

What's an example(s) of segregation?

a)

Children of different races must attend different schools.

b)

Not allowing African Americans to sit in front of the movie theater.

c)

Attacking people with tear gas who want integration.

d)

Refusing to serve people of different races food at the counter.

e)

None of these answers.

7.

The rights due to all U.S. citizens under the constitution are called

a)

Nonviolent protests

b)

Civil rights

c)

Voting Rights

d)

the Bill of Rights

8.

Inclusion of people of all races, classes, or ethnic groups; desegregation is called

a)

segregation

b)

integration

9.

First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Rosa Parks

10.

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

15th Amendment