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3rd 9Wks Social Studies

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 6hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does SCLC stand for?

a)

Stop Cleaning Lenin Clothes

b)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

c)

Southern Church Life Center

d)

Super Cool Long Car

2.
The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change
a)
nonviolet
b)
nonviolin
c)
nonviolence
d)
nonviola
3.
Bringing separate groups together
a)
integration
b)
Looking at this will slow you down
c)
discrimination
d)
segregation
4.
People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights
a)
prejudice
b)
activist
c)
optimist
d)
don't read this, this is just a distraction
5.
Keeping things or people separate 
a)
integration
b)
discrimination
c)
DISTRACTION!
d)
segregation
6.

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

Thurgood Marshall

7.

More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

March on Washington

8.

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

a)

Brown vs. the Board of Education

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Jim Crow Laws

9.

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

a)

Mary Washington

b)

Jackie Kennedy

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

Rosa Parks

10.

First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Rosa Parks

11.

Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (voting people, voting)

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

12.

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1964

13.

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

a)

segregation

b)

racism

c)

oppression

d)

facism

14.

prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, and national origin.

a)

Voting Rights Act

b)

24th Amendment

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

15th Amendment

15.

NAACP stands for

a)

No Apples and Candy Places

b)

New All Access Canvas People

c)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

d)

National Association of Alaskan People

16.

Which court case upheld segregation; "separate but equal"

a)

Brown v. Board

b)

Roe v. Wade

c)

Elmo v. US of America

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

17.

was a civil rights activist who investigated cases for the (NAACP); activist from Mississippi

a)

Medgar Evers

b)

Jim Brown

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Coach Watson

18.
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
a)
allow children to work.
b)
to pay black people less than white people.
c)
to return a slave.
d)
to segregate schools.
19.
The most significant legal change after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. the Board of Education was:
a)
Linda Brown was able to go to the University of Alabama.
b)
Membership in the KKK escalated violence in retaliation.
c)
Segregation on public transportation was outlawed.
d)
The end to legal public school segregation based on the principle of separate but equal schools 
20.

Did Anyone Oppose the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

No, the civil rights movements went by smoothly

b)

No, there everyone agreed with the civil rights movements

c)

Yes, groups like the Klu Klux Klan and others opposed the civil rights movement

d)

None

21.

civil rights group committed to nonviolent protest

a)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b)

Southern Church

Ladies Center

c)

Some Cool Long Cheeseburger

d)

Southern Christian Level Conference

22.

Who led the Montgomery bus boycott?

a)

Coach Watson & Rosa Parks

b)

MLK & Rosa Parks

c)

Rosa Parks & Jessie Jackson

d)

Activists

23.

bill banning discrimination in employment and public places

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1966

c)

Voting Rights Act

d)

1st Amendment

24.

a civil rights campaign aimed at registering African American voters

a)

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

b)

Freedom Summer

c)

Voter Education Project

d)

24th Amendment

25.

law protecting the voting rights of minorities

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1967

b)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1966

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1999