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The Civil Rights Movement Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

The Civil Rights Movement peaked in this decade:

a)

1950s

b)

1960s

c)

1970s

d)

1980s

2.

Which of these were NOT part of the movement for equality during this time period?

a)

Latinos

b)

Homosexuals

c)

White males

d)

African Americans

e)

Native Americans

3.

Most of the people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement were offspring of what generation?

a)

Baby boomers

b)

The WWII generation

c)

Millenials

d)

The Silent Generation

4.

What did the group SCLC stand for?

a)

Southern Christians Leading other Christians

b)

The South Challenging Leadership Colleagues

c)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

d)

The South Conference Leaders promoting Christianity

5.

What did SNCC stand for?

a)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

b)

Students Not taking Crap

c)

Student Nonviolent Caring Conference

d)

Students Not Coordinating Confident

6.

What was a sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

When African Americans sat on buses they weren't allowed to ride

b)

When students sat in the middle of the road, blocking traffic, to protest

c)

When African American activists peacefully sat in restaurants they weren't allowed to sit in

d)

When African Americans sat at college campuses and gave speeches on equality

7.

What were the freedom rides during the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Student activists sitting on buses they were technically not allowed to ride and riding throughout the South

b)

Activists peacefully sitting in restaurants they were prohibited to sit in

c)

Activists giving speeches at college campuses

d)

Activists standing in the streets to protest

8.

What is most likely the most significant part of the March on Washington in 1963?

a)

Robert Kennedy gave a famous speech in the bed of a truck

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream" speech

c)

The police came and arrested over half of the 200,000 participants

d)

This marks the end of the Civil Rights Movement

9.

President JFK was reluctant to actively help the Civil Rights Movement, while President Johnson was more willing and more successful.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

When was the Civil Rights Act passed by Congress?

a)

1963

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1966

11.

When was the Voting Rights Act passed by Congress?

a)

1963

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1966

12.

What year was discrimination in housing banned?

a)

1966

b)

1967

c)

1968

d)

1969

13.

Choose the two statements that would describe leaders like Stokely Carmichael & Malcolm X who were disappointed in the nonviolent tactics of MLK, JR.

a)

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

b)

By any means necessary

c)

Black Power

d)

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal

14.

Choose the two leaders who were assassinated in 1968 that marked the end of an era of idealism during the Civil Rights Movement:

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr

b)

President John F. Kennedy

c)

Robert Kennedy

d)

President Lyndon B. Johnson

e)

Malcolm X

15.

In the 1970s, the Civil Rights Movement became more about equality and access rather than the legality of segregation.

a)

True

b)

False