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Alabama History Chapter 12

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The United States' Civil Rights Movement was peaceful.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

The state of Alabama was in the center of the Civil Rights Movement.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Governor George Wallace stood in the entrance door to the University of Alabama to welcome its first black students in 1963.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

The Alabama Constitution of 1901 had voting requirements that made it hard for poor whites and blacks to vote.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The U.S. surgeon general appointed by President Obama is a black man from Bayou La Batre.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The first black graduate from the University of Alabama was a female.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The Voting Rights Act was written in 1965.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Today citizens of all races can vote and schools are integrated.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

It cost few people their lives to achieve racial civil rights.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Segregation is

a)

encouraging whites and blacks to work together for the common good.

b)

separation of blacks and whites in churches only.

c)

having separate, but equal facilities for blacks and whites.

d)

overcoming differences by meeting together.

12.

Which court case, in 1896, ruled that separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites were legal?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

James v. the state of Alabama

c)

Monroe v. Wallace

d)

Alabama v. the U.S.

13.

Which laws were used to enforce segregation?

a)

Martin Luther King laws

b)

George Washington Carver laws

c)

Jim Crow laws

d)

Governor Folsom laws

14.

Which U.S. president ordered an end to segregation in defense industries?

a)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

President Hubert Hoover

c)

President Harry Truman

d)

President John F. Kennedy

15.

Which court case reached the U.S. Supreme Court because Linda Brown, a black girl, tried to enroll in an all-white school in 1950?

a)

Brown v. State of Kansas

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Brown v. States Rigths

d)

Brown v. White

16.

When Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus,

a)

everyone on the bus applauded.

b)

the Civil War began.

c)

other women moved to the back of the bus.

d)

the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.

17.

Whose portrait is in the Ferguson Center at the University of Alabama for her contribution to desegregation?

a)

Condoleezza Rice

b)

Autherine Lucy Foster

c)

Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Linda Brown

18.

Which amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee equal civil rights?

a)

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

b)

12th, 13th, and 14th Amendments

c)

14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments

d)

10th, 11th, and 12th Amendments

19.

Freedom Riders were black and white people who wanted to

a)

ride their motorcycles on the weekend.

b)

did not want women to join their group.

c)

wanted to protest segregation in bus stations in the South.

d)

wanted to promote segregation in bus stations in the South.

20.

The goal of the Selma-to-Montgomery March on March 7, 1965 was to

a)

gather votes for equal rights.

b)

promote healthy lifestyles by walking.

c)

protest segregation on the city buses.

d)

bring attention to voting rights and protest the shooting death of a black activist.