WorksheetsUnit 10: Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Generally, the term civil rights refers to the rights of all Americans to equal treatment under the law, as provided by the __________ to the Constitution.
First Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Eighth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
If a law or action prevents some group of persons from exercising a fundamental right, the law or action will be subject to the __________ standard for determining whether the equal protection clause has been violated.
"intermediate scrutiny”
“ordinary scrutiny”
“strict scrutiny”
“rational basis”
“Jim Crow” laws
were segregation laws, separating the white community from the black community.
were justified by the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
were prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment.
required an end to segregation.
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court
declared that African Americans had a right to ride in railway cars reserved for whites.
ordered the public schools to be racially integrated.
established the separate-but-equal doctrine.
struck down “Jim Crow” laws as unconstitutional.
The separate-but-equal doctrine
was rooted in the notion that “our Constitution is colorblind.”
is a Supreme Court doctrine holding that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits racial segregation.
was used to justify racial segregation in many areas of American life for nearly sixty years.
is used to justify affirmative action programs.
The Supreme Court
overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
upheld the separate-but-equal doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
extended the separate-but-equal doctrine to justify classifications based on gender in Craig v. Boren (1976).
In Brown II (1955), the Supreme Court ordered desegregation to begin
“immediately.”
“with caution and care.”
“with all deliberate speed.”
“without undue delay.”
Racial segregation that occurs not as a result of deliberate intentions but because of social and economic conditions and residential patterns is called __________ segregation.
de facto
de jure
de minimis
ex post facto
The arrest of Rosa Parks for violating local segregation laws spurred the local African American community to organize a
series of nonviolent sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
year-long boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama.
demonstration in Selma, Alabama.
protest march in Washington, D.C.
One of the tactics used by the civil rights protestors in the 1960s was __________, the deliberate and public refusal to obey laws considered unjust.
“Jim Crow”
suffrage
affirmative action
civil disobedience
A sit-in is a tactic of __________ that was used successfully in the civil rights movement.
nonviolent civil disobedience
violent behavior
black separatism
de jure segregation
Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, and national origin in public places of accommodation and in employment was outlawed by the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Native Americans had no civil rights under U.S. laws until
1787, when the Northwest Ordinance was passed.
1824, when Congress established the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
the late 1880s, when U.S. policy focused on the assimilation of Native Americans into American society.
1924, when the citizenship rights spelled out in the Fourteenth Amendment were extended to American Indians.
14. The equal protection clause was originally intended to protect __________ after the Civil War.
women
children
property owners
newly freed slaves
The Supreme Court established the separate-but-equal doctrine in
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
Brown II (1955).
United States v. Virginia (1996).
