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Chapter 21

Total questions: 65

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This person was the first African-American to integrate Major League Baseball:

a)

Jackie Robinson

b)

Branch Rickey

c)

Satchell Paige

d)

Josh Gibson

2.

This person was the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed the first African-American player to integrate Major League Baseball:

a)

Jackie Robinson

b)

Branch Rickey

c)

Satchell Paige

d)

Josh Gibson

3.

The event where many African-Americans migrated from south to north in search of jobs:

a)

Harlem Renaisance

b)

Great Migration

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Gi BIll of Rights

4.

This created segregation by allowing for seperate but equal public facilities in America:

a)

Harlem Renaisance

b)

Great Migration

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Gi BIll of Rights

5.

The crime used to enforce Jim Crow and other segregation laws which largely went unreported from 1877-1941:

a)

Lynching

b)

Segregation

c)

Lunch counters

d)

Poll Tax

6.

This program largely created a middle class but exempted African-Americans or denied them access:

a)

Great Migration

b)

New Deal

c)

CPI

d)

Hoover Dam

7.

This organization fought racist laws in the courts:

a)

NAACP

b)

National Urban League

c)

SCLC

d)

SNCC

8.

This organization tried to help African-Americans find jobs and housing during the Great Migrations:

a)

NAACP

b)

National Urban League

c)

SCLC

d)

SNCC

9.

This organization led demonstrations throughout the south led by Martin Luther King. It practiced the philosophy of non-violent resistance:

a)

NAACP

b)

National Urban League

c)

SCLC

d)

SNCC

10.

This organization led the sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. It later split on the issue of violence:

a)

NAACP

b)

National Urban League

c)

SCLC

d)

SNCC

11.

She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person:

a)

Claudette Colvin

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Viola Davis

d)

Octavia Spencer

12.

The leader of SCLC who preached non-violent civil disobedience:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

13.

A one time member of SNCC, he created a new group called the Black Panthers:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

14.

The leader of the Nation of Islam who preached racial seperation and conversion to Islam:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

15.

Once a member of the Nation of Islam, he broke away and formed his own group but was assassinated in 1965 :

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

16.

This tactic is used in the legislative branch. It means to talk endlessly to try to prevent debate or a vote on an issue:

a)

cloture

b)

filibuster

c)

omnibus

d)

committee

17.

This tactic is used in the legislative branch. It limits debate to 30 minutes and forces a vote on an issue:

a)

cloture

b)

filibuster

c)

omnibus

d)

committee

18.

In 1961, white and black volunteers boarded busses to test the enforcement of integrated public facilities. They were attacked in Anniston, Alabama:

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

March on Washington

c)

Selma March

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

19.

In 1963, Martin Luther King held this event in Washington where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech:

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

March on Washington

c)

Selma March

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

20.

On a bridge outside of town in Alabama, Civil Rights workers were ambushed by the State Police who chased down demonstrators on horseback, fired tear gas and beat them:

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

March on Washington

c)

Selma March

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

21.

This event began when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. It lasted for over a year:

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

March on Washington

c)

Selma March

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

22.

Governor of Arkansas who defied federal orders to allow integration of Central High School in Little Rock in 1957:

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

George Wallace

c)

Ross Barnett

d)

Strom Thurmond

23.

Governor of Alabama who defied the federal government on integration and ordered police to attack demonstrators in Birmingham with dogs and high pressure fire hoses:

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

George Wallace

c)

Ross Barnett

d)

Strom Thurmond

24.

Governor of Mississippi who refused to allow integration of the University of Mississippi and urged demonstrators to attack federal marshalls:

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

George Wallace

c)

Ross Barnett

d)

Strom Thurmond

25.

South Carolina Senator who ran for President in 1948 as a Dixiecrat and openly defied integration laws:

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

George Wallace

c)

Ross Barnett

d)

Strom Thurmond

26.

This was an event where demonstrators forced segratated restaurants to serve them:

a)

Lock in

b)

Sit in

c)

Petition

d)

Protest marches outside the doors

27.

9 African-American were denied entry to Central High School in this state:

a)

Arkansas

b)

Georgia

c)

Mississippi

d)

Florida

28.

This was NOT a tactic used to block African-Americans from voting:

a)

Poll tax

b)

Literacy test

c)

Equal access

d)

Grandfather clause

29.

The case that overturned segregation laws in public schools:

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Korematsu v. U.S.

d)

Boyton v. Virginia

30.

The 24th Amendment ended:

a)

Poll tax

b)

Literacy test

c)

Grandfather clause

d)

Absentee balleting

31.

This law banned discrimination and called for the federal government to intervene to protect voting rights and civil rights.

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Freedom Summer

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Southern Manifesto

32.

This act called for federal monitoring of polling stations and eliminated conditions to vote such as literacy tests:

a)

Voting Rights Act

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

CARES Act

d)

24th Amendment

33.

This document stated that they would defy integration laws using any means necessary

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Voting Rights Act

c)

24th Amendment

d)

Southern Manifesto

34.

This organization led protest marches during World War II and sponsored the Freedom Riders

a)

NAACP

b)

National Urban League

c)

CORE

d)

SCLC

35.

He wrote his famous letter from a Birmingham Jail while in jail during the Birmingham march:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

36.

Freedom Riders tried to force this President to do his job:

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Richard Nixon

37.

In 1957, when 9 African-Americans were denied entry, it forced this President to send the army to enforce integregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas:

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Richard Nixon

38.

The Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act were passed and signed into law by this President::

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Richard Nixon

39.

He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in April, 1968:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Elijah Muhammed

d)

Stokely Carmichael

40.

Their slogan was Black Power:

a)

SCLC

b)

Nation of Islam

c)

Black Muslims

d)

Black Panthers

41.

This was segregation by law:

a)

De Jure

b)

De Facto

42.

This was segregation by existing ways such as poverty:

a)

De Jure

b)

De Facto

43.

In June of 1968, he was assassinated after winning the California Democratic Primary in Los Angeles, California

a)

Robert F. Kennedy

b)

Martin Luther King

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Richard Nixon

44.

The civil rights movement splintered on this issue:

a)

Poverty

b)

Leadership

c)

Money

d)

Violence

45.

"Cross out the longest word in this sentence." What tactic is this?

a)

Debate

b)

Literacy test

c)

Defacto segregation

d)

Poll tax

46.

This white suprmecist organization terrorized African-Americans throughout the south:

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Police

c)

Sons of Liberty

d)

Proud Boys

47.

Tactic used in Montgomery against the city to force change on public transportation:

a)

Boycott

b)

Violence

c)

Passive resistance

d)

Fire bombing

48.

This means to bring all races together:

a)

Segregation

b)

Integration

c)

Gravity

d)

Omnibus

49.

Hispanics used MLK's tactics to allow integration of:

a)

Arlington National Cemetary

b)

Public busses

c)

Barrios

d)

Reservations

50.

This lynching began to inspire many African-Americans to action:

a)

Emmitt Till

b)

Claude Moody

c)

Claudette Colvin

d)

Melvin Tullis

51.

This Supreme Court case banned seperate facilities for bussing:

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Boynton v. Virginia

c)

Loving v. Virginia

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

52.

The Mississippi leader of the NAACP murdered by a white supremicist in 1963:

a)

John Lewis

b)

Andrew Goodman

c)

Emmitt Till

d)

Medgar Evars

53.

A raised fist symbolized this:

a)

Rainbow coalition

b)

Black Power

c)

Black Nationalism

d)

White Pride

54.

This commission stated that America had two societies: one white and one black, both unequal:

a)

Kerner

b)

Boyd

c)

Watts

d)

Klein

55.

This city had a riot that led to it's major decline:

a)

St. Lous

b)

Detroit

c)

Dallas

d)

Miami

56.

The Civil Rights Movement divided on this issue:

a)

Leadership

b)

Violence

c)

Money

d)

Membership

57.

"If a white man touches me, I'm not going to turn the other cheek. I'm going to slap him back." This would best fit the views of the following:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

58.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.." This would best fit the views of the following:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

59.

"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it" This would best fit the views of the following:

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Elijah Muhammed

60.

"We serve Whites ONLY." What kind of segregation is this?

a)

Defacto

b)

Dejure

61.

An employer denies a person a job because they don't have job skills What kind of segregation is this?

a)

Defacto

b)

Dejure

62.

A person lacks an education due to the lack of funding their school receives. What kind of segregation is this?

a)

Defacto

b)

Dejure

63.

A taxi refuses to pick up an African-American. What kind of discrimination is that?

a)

Dejure

b)

Defacto

64.

You get followed in a store by security because you are a teenager. What kind of discrimination is that?

a)

Dejure

b)

Defacto

65.

The Civil Rights Movement focused only on this kind of segregation

a)

Dejure

b)

Defacto