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WorksheetsCivil Rights Review 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
There was a growth in political engagement by minorities with the passage of legislation to end-
Literacy tests, voter intimidation, and gerrymandering
Poll taxes, sit-ins, and freedom rides
Labor unions, marches, and protests
Literacy tests, integration, and desegregation
Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Tinker v. Des Moines
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Civil Rights Movement is mostly characterized by-
non-violent civil disobedience
violence and riots
economic prosperity
political corruption
Which court case that declared segregation in schools LEGAL?
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson
What were causes of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s?
The Civil War and Reconstruction helped to end slavery, but did not end racism.
Jim Crow Laws existed mainly in the South and originated from Black Codes.
Nonviolent protests became the strongest tool in the fight for equal rights.
Segregation was used to maintain white supremacy.
What's an example(s) of segregation?
Children of different races must attend different schools.
Not allowing African Americans to sit in front of the movie theater.
Attacking people with tear gas who want integration.
Refusing to serve people of different races food at the counter.
None of these answers.
The rights due to all U.S. citizens under the constitution are called
Nonviolent protests
Civil rights
Voting Rights
the Bill of Rights
Inclusion of people of all races, classes, or ethnic groups; desegregation is called
segregation
integration
First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
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.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
15th Amendment
