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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which amendment ended slavery?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

19th

2.

In 1868 this amendment paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement by allowing citizenship to former slaves.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

2nd

3.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was named after a famous church reformer from the Protestant Reformation. Which one?

a)

John Calvin

b)

John Wycliffe

c)

Huldrych Zwingli

d)

Martin Luther

4.

Where was the famous bus boycott?

a)

Montgomery, AL

b)

Atlanta, GA

c)

Jackson, MS

d)

Baton Rouge, LA

5.

Who is famous for starting the bus boycott?

a)

cookie monster

b)

Napoleon Bonaparte

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Pocahontas

6.

MLK gave his most famous speech at

a)

Wal-Mart

b)

the NBA all-star game

c)

The March on Washington DC (in front of Lincoln Memorial)

d)

the Hood County Courthouse

7.

What were the unconstitutional, racist laws enforced in the American South?

a)

Billy Bob codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

8.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out against which war in the 1960s?

a)

Vietnam War

b)

Korean War

c)

World War 2

d)

World War 1

9.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. states could no longer have what kind of public schools?

a)

female

b)

segregated

c)

chess academies

d)

underwater

10.

MLK dreamed that his "children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by ...."

a)

diversity awareness

b)

their fashion choices

c)

which political party they identified with

d)

the content of their character