WorksheetsEarly Civil Rights Movement Review 1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
President Harry Truman advanced the cause of civil rights for African Americans by
ordering the desegregation of the Armed Forces.
appointing the first African American to the Supreme Court.
supporting the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
establishing affirmative action policies for industry.
Martin Luther King, Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he
led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man.
challenged the authority of the Supreme Court.
was elected as the first black congressman from the South.
Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.
African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.
Unjust laws must be disobeyed and the consequences accepted peacefully.
African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.
The main reason the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the literacy test as a voting qualification was that
different standards of literacy had been applied to different groups of voters.
a majority of voters were unable to read election ballots.
technology had made voter literacy unnecessary.
the cost of achieving literacy was too high.
Information provided by the map most clearly supports the conclusion that by 1964 racial desegregation of Southern schools was
failing in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
supported by most voters in the South.
occurring at different rates in Southern states.
completed by the mid-1960s.
The situation shown in this 1950 photograph is a direct result of the
Great Migration.
application of grandfather clauses.
passage of Jim Crow laws.
Montgomery bus boycott.
The civil rights movement began in 1955 with the _________________.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
March on Washington
"I Have a Dream" speech
To separate one group from another is ___________________.
integration
segregation
Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow
Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Sweatt v. Painter
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
allow children to work.
to pay black people less than white people.
to return a slave.
to segregate public schools.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to
let African Americans ride the bus.
deny someone of a job because of their race.
fire someone for not doing their job.
kick someone out of the military.
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
