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Civil Rights

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the Arkansas governor that sent the National Guard to keep nine African Americans students out of school?

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

George Wallace

c)

Lester Maddox

d)

Bull Connor

2.

What was the purpose of Executive Order 9981?

a)

To call for rationing

b)

To mobilize troops in preparation for the Vietnam War

c)

Desegregating the military

d)

Initiate nuclear launch codes

3.

In 1896, this court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine for public facilities.

a)

Brown v. Board

b)

Texas v. Hernandez

c)

Sweatt v. Painter

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

4.

Which court case in 1954 ended segregation in schools, and reversed Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Lee v. Lee

c)

Sweatt v. Painter

d)

Delgado v Bastrop ISD

5.

Rosa Parks initiated the _____________.

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

b)

Little Rock Nine event

c)

Woolworth Sit-In

d)

Freedom Rides

6.

How were Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr similar in their protest tactics?

a)

Started riots

b)

Began militant demonstrations

c)

Used nonviolent forms of protest

d)

Organized labor unions

7.

Poll taxes and literacy tests limited which right of African Americans?

a)

Voting

b)

Equal Pay

c)

Education

d)

Health Insurance

8.

How did Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta contribute to the Chicano civil rights movement?

a)

They fought for the rights of exploited laborers

b)

They protested violent tactics used by the farm workers

c)

They demanded educators teach more about Hispanic heritage

d)

All of the above

9.

The group NOW (National Organization for Women) and Betty Friedan fought against ___________.

a)

gender discrimination

b)

political representation

c)

foreign policy

d)

states rights

10.

Which of the following was used in the South to practice segregation?

a)

Equality

b)

Jim Crow laws

c)

Title IX

d)

No laws were needed

11.

Which term is most associated with Martin Luther King Jr?

a)

Civil disobedience

b)

Violent protests

c)

Black militancy

d)

Segregation

12.

Title IX created ________.

a)

political rights to be distributed amongst men

b)

more economic investments for low income families

c)

equal opportunities for both genders, especially in athletics and education

d)

the need for an oversight committee to establish rules for bank loans

13.

Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party are associated with ________.

a)

civil disobedience

b)

militancy ("by any means necessary")

c)

cooperation

d)

political lobbying

14.

The important Civil Rights Act of 1964 calls for __________.

a)

the end of discrimination in public areas

b)

the integration of religious and state facilities

c)

Jim Crows to continue

d)

None of the above

15.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited ________.

a)

any barriers to voting such as literacy tests and poll taxes

b)

the government to conduct surveillance of polling sites

c)

voters from seeing early drafts of ballot cards

d)

poll workers from handing out reference materials to help voters read their ballots

16.

This 1932 poster depicts an organization originally formed to advocate _______.

a)

publicly funded health care for children

b)

better economic treatment of migrant workers

c)

a retirement system for farm laborers

d)

equal employment opportunities for women

17.

Which government poster is directly related to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

a)

F

b)

G

c)

H

d)

J

18.

These murals were painted during the 1970s in California. This artistic movement demonstrates the contributions of which culture to U.S. art?

a)

Mexican Americans

b)

Chinese Americans

c)

Irish Americans

d)

African Americans

19.

During Reconstruction the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified. Which issue did these amendments address?

a)

Rights for women

b)

Readmission of states to the Union

c)

Rights for former slaves

d)

Presidential impeachment proceedings

20.

What was the name of President Lyndon Johnson's plan to end poverty in America?

a)

New Frontier

b)

Great Society

c)

Square Deal

d)

New Deal