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Civil Rights

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
a)
allow children to work.
b)
to pay black people less than white people.
c)
to return a slave.
d)
to segregate schools.
2.
_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 
a)
Harry Belafonte
b)
Barack Obama
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
d)
Jesse Jackson
3.

A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product.

a)

march

b)

boycott

c)

sit in

d)

activist

4.

This woman refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

a)

Mary Washington

b)

Jackie Kennedy

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

Rosa Parks

5.

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

15th Amendment

6.

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

a)

segregation

b)

racism

c)

oppression

d)

facism

7.

Enforced racial segregation in the South; "separate but equal"

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

8.

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

9.

Gave all citizens born in the United States citizenship (rights of citizens)

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

10.

Gave ALL male United States citizens over the age of 21 the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

11.

This protest happened at a diner where four men were refused service.

a)

March on Washington

b)

Brown vs. Board of Education

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

Lunch-Counter Sit-In

12.

What does the word amend mean?

a)

to sew clothes

b)

to approve a law

c)

to improve or change something for the better

d)

the right to vote

13.

Suffrage is one of the most important rights of citizens and is the right to

a)

boycott

b)

protest

c)

vote

d)

freedom of speech

14.

In this court case, Oliver Brown sued the white school that refused to let his daughter enroll at their school.

a)

Martin Luther King Jr. vs Board of Education

b)

Brown vs. Board of Education

c)

Jim Crow vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

15.

The national effort in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights for everyone

a)

Civil Rights Movement

b)

14th Amendment

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

the Civil War