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Civil Rights #1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

2.

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

3.

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

15th Amendment

4.

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

5.

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

a)

segregation

b)

racism

c)

oppression

d)

facism

6.

Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

7.

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

8.
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
a)
Sweatt v. Painter
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
9.
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
a)
Sit-In
b)
Freedom Rides
c)
Selma March
d)
Filibuster
10.

These were the first black students who tried to attend an all white high school

a)

The Chicago 11

b)

The Joliet 5

c)

The Little Rock 9

11.

This is a refusal to buy products from a company to hurt them financially until they make changes

a)

Segregation

b)

Boycott

c)

Sit-in

12.

These were blacks who rode busses from North to the South and refused to segregate when they got to the South

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

Bus Boycotters

c)

The Little Rock 9

13.

In the 1960's, sit-ins were organized to protest segregation of _____________.

a)

Schools

b)

Lunch counters

c)

Busses

14.
Which of the following describe the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
a)
Financial reparations should be paid for all citizens who were the children of former slaves.
b)
De facto, of voluntary segregation of the races
c)
Using force to achieve African American equality
d)
Disobeying unjust segregation laws non-violently 
15.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to
a)
support the goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau
b)
restrict the voting rights of African Americans
c)
undermine the “separate but equal” ruling of the Supreme Court
d)
enforce the amendments enacted during the Civil War and Reconstruction 
16.
During the 1950s, the main goal of the civil rights movement was to
a)
 create separate African American economic and social institutions
b)
eliminate legal segregation from American life
c)
 establish affirmative action programs to compensate for past wrongs
d)
form a new nation for African Americans
17.
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, she began the:
a)
National Organization of Women
b)
Black Panthers
c)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
d)
Supreme Court decisions
18.

Martin Luther King Jr. believed that African Americans could gain their rights by protesting against unfair laws in what way?

a)

Violently

b)

By fighting

c)

With a Civil War

d)

Peacefully

19.

All of the following are considering barriers for African Americans to vote EXCEPT

a)

blood test

b)

poll tax

c)

literacy test

d)

white primaries

20.

These were laws that enforced segregation in the South

a)

Civil Rights Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Boycott Laws