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Civil Rights Movement Intro Review 2nd TryQuiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did the Civil Rights Movement take place?

a)

1920s, 1930s

b)

1940s, 1950s

c)

1950s, 1960s

d)

None of the above

2.

The Reconstruction Amendments are the _____th, ______th, and the ______th.

a)

12,13,14

b)

13,14,15

c)

14,15,16

d)

None of the above

3.

What was the period after the Civil War called?

(a)  

4.

What was put in the southern states to help protect African Americans, so they could vote?

(a)  

5.

In 1877, with the Compromise of 1877, the South began to revert back to segregation and Jim Crow Laws?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Check all the ways the South tried to keep African Americans from voting.

a)

Literacy Tests

b)

Poll Taxes

c)

Grandfather Clauses

d)

KKK

7.

This amendment gave all Americans born in the United States citizenship and protection under the law to protect their rights.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

8.

This amendment guaranteed African Americans freedom from slavery.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

9.

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

10.

What is segregation?

a)

A separation of races.

b)

A coming together of the races.

c)

The meeting of two or more people.

d)

None of the above.

11.

What was the main focus of Jim Crow Laws?

a)

desegregation

b)

segregation

c)

equality

d)

None of the above

12.

Jim Crow Laws were not adopted in the North but there was still discrimination in the North. It was especially prevalent when an African American tried to obtain an education or buy a house.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

One way the South denied African Americans from voting was to allow voting for citizens only if your father or grandfather voted prior to the (a)   period.

14.

In the South, African Americans were asked to take tests that were difficult and confusing. If they did not pass the tests they were not allowed to vote. These were called (a)   .

15.

The Reconstruction period took place after the Civil War, so that would mean that it started after __________.

a)

1861

b)

1863

c)

1865

d)

None of the above

16.

The poll tax kept African Americans from voting because they ___________.

a)

did not have an education because they were not allowed to read and write as slaves.

b)

did not have a father or grandfather who was able to vote prior to Reconstruction.

c)

did not have enough money to afford it.

d)

None of the above.

17.

Plessy v Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that established whether it was constitutional or not to separate the races in transportation and regarding other facilities. The Supreme Court concluded ___________.

a)

It was constitutional as long as it was "separate but equal".

b)

It was not constitutional because it was inherently wrong to separate the races.

c)

It was unconstitutional but as long as it was "separate but equal" it was okay.

d)

None of the above.

18.

In the South there were signs that read "Colored" and "White" that segregated society. This was an example of Jim Crow Laws.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

We no longer use the word "colored" as it is seen as offensive.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The Brown v Board of Topeka case overturned the Plessy v Ferguson case. It concluded segregation was _______________ in this year____________.

a)

constitutional as long as it was "separate but equal," 1954

b)

constitutional as long as it was "separate but equal," 1896

c)

unconstitutional because it is inherently wrong to separate the races, 1954

d)

unconstitutional because it is inherently wrong to separate the races, 1896