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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Segregation by choice or by "fact"

a)

Defacto Segregation

b)

Dejure Segregation

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Civil Disobedience

2.
Who was the "mother" of the civil rights movement?
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Coretta Scott King
c)
Michelle Obama
d)
Oprah Winfrey
3.

A group of people occupying a place as a form of protest

a)

Boycott

b)

Protest

c)

Sit-In

d)

Civil Disobedience

4.
Dr. King believed in using peaceful demonstrations to get the government to listen to the demands of the Civil Rights Movement.  He was influence by this person....
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Buddah
c)
Mahatma Ghandi
d)
Martin L. King Sr. 
5.

An action such as a prolonged speech that abstracts progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.

a)

Protest

b)

Filibuster

c)

Pocket Veto

d)

Presidential Veto

6.

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

a)

it caused race riots in the nation's Capital

b)

200,000 people worked together to help African Americans get the right to vote

c)

the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march

d)

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

7.

Segregation by law

a)

Defacto Segregation

b)

Dejure Segregation

c)

Civil Disobedience

d)

Black Power

8.
What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?
a)
Korematsu v US
b)
Brown v Ferguson
c)
Brown v Board of Ed
d)
Plessy v Ferguson
9.

A movement in support of heights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s

a)

Boycott

b)

Human Rights

c)

Sit-ins

d)

Black Power

10.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by...
a)
closing the school.
b)
redrawing the school district.
c)
hiring the Ku Klux Klan.
d)
deploying the National Guard.
11.

Withdraw from commercial or social relations with an organization/business as a punishment or protest

a)

Boycott

b)

Civil Disobedience

c)

Filibuester

d)

Protest

12.
This banned the use of literacy tests.
a)
Civil Rights Act
b)
Civil Rights Movement
c)
Voting Rights Act
d)
Jim Crow Law
13.

A right that is believed to belong justifiably to every person

a)

Human Right

b)

Constitutional Right

c)

Religious Right

d)

Legal Right

14.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to
a)
let African Americans ride the bus.
b)
deny someone of a job because of their race.
c)
fire someone for not doing their job.
d)
kick someone out of the military.
15.

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States

a)

Defacto Segregation

b)

Civil Disobedience

c)

Dejure Segregation

d)

Jim Crow Laws

16.

Which important leader from the 1960s was assassinated in 1968 while running for president?

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Robert F. Kennedy

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

John F. Kennedy

17.

A statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something

a)

Protest

b)

Sit-In

c)

Boycott

d)

Civil Disobedience

18.
How did newspapers and media play a role in the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
They showed how great Jim Crow laws were
b)
They showed how unfair Jim Crow laws were and helped convince people to join the Civil Rights Movement
c)
 They made a lot of money following Martin Luther King Jr. 
d)
All of the above
19.

The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest

a)

Protest

b)

Filibuester

c)

Sit- In

d)

Civil Disobedience

20.

What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?

a)

Sit-in

b)

Boycotts

c)

Freedom Rides

d)

March on Washington