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WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Segregation by choice or by "fact"
Defacto Segregation
Dejure Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Disobedience
A group of people occupying a place as a form of protest
Boycott
Protest
Sit-In
Civil Disobedience
An action such as a prolonged speech that abstracts progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.
Protest
Filibuster
Pocket Veto
Presidential Veto
The March on Washington was most famous because . . .
it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
200,000 people worked together to help African Americans get the right to vote
the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement
Segregation by law
Defacto Segregation
Dejure Segregation
Civil Disobedience
Black Power
A movement in support of heights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s
Boycott
Human Rights
Sit-ins
Black Power
Withdraw from commercial or social relations with an organization/business as a punishment or protest
Boycott
Civil Disobedience
Filibuester
Protest
A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person
Human Right
Constitutional Right
Religious Right
Legal Right
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
Defacto Segregation
Civil Disobedience
Dejure Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Which important leader from the 1960s was assassinated in 1968 while running for president?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
A statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something
Protest
Sit-In
Boycott
Civil Disobedience
The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest
Protest
Filibuester
Sit- In
Civil Disobedience
What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?
Sit-in
Boycotts
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
