WorksheetsAlabama History Chapter 12
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The United States' Civil Rights Movement was peaceful.
True
False
The state of Alabama was in the center of the Civil Rights Movement.
True
False
Governor George Wallace stood in the entrance door to the University of Alabama to welcome its first black students in 1963.
True
False
The Alabama Constitution of 1901 had voting requirements that made it hard for poor whites and blacks to vote.
True
False
The U.S. surgeon general appointed by President Obama is a black man from Bayou La Batre.
True
False
The first black graduate from the University of Alabama was a female.
True
False
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
True
False
The Voting Rights Act was written in 1965.
True
False
Today citizens of all races can vote and schools are integrated.
True
False
It cost few people their lives to achieve racial civil rights.
True
False
Segregation is
encouraging whites and blacks to work together for the common good.
separation of blacks and whites in churches only.
having separate, but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
overcoming differences by meeting together.
Which court case, in 1896, ruled that separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites were legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
James v. the state of Alabama
Monroe v. Wallace
Alabama v. the U.S.
Which laws were used to enforce segregation?
Martin Luther King laws
George Washington Carver laws
Jim Crow laws
Governor Folsom laws
Which U.S. president ordered an end to segregation in defense industries?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Hubert Hoover
President Harry Truman
President John F. Kennedy
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?
Brown v. State of Kansas
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. States Rigths
Brown v. White
When Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus,
everyone on the bus applauded.
the Civil War began.
other women moved to the back of the bus.
the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
Whose portrait is in the Ferguson Center at the University of Alabama for her contribution to desegregation?
Condoleezza Rice
Autherine Lucy Foster
Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Linda Brown
Which amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee equal civil rights?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
12th, 13th, and 14th Amendments
14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments
10th, 11th, and 12th Amendments
Freedom Riders were black and white people who wanted to
ride their motorcycles on the weekend.
did not want women to join their group.
wanted to protest segregation in bus stations in the South.
wanted to promote segregation in bus stations in the South.
The goal of the Selma-to-Montgomery March on March 7, 1965 was to
gather votes for equal rights.
promote healthy lifestyles by walking.
protest segregation on the city buses.
bring attention to voting rights and protest the shooting death of a black activist.
