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WorksheetsUnit 3: Civil Rights Pre-test
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 13mins
Statement best compares the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X?
Martin Luther King Jr. was committed to nonviolent protest, while Malcolm X supported change by any means necessary.
Martin Luther King Jr. thought the civil rights movement should focus on southern states, while Malcolm X thought the movement should focus on northern cities.
Martin Luther King Jr. thought that the civil rights movement should focus on economic justice, while Malcolm X thought the movement should focus on voting rights.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supported change by any means necessary, while Malcolm X supported black nationalism.
Which statement best explains the meaning of the Brown v. Board of Education decisions that claim that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal?”
Segregated schools can only be made equal if African American and white schools receive the same level of funding.
It is impossible to determine whether or not segregated schools can provide African American and white students with an equal education.
Segregated schools can never be equal because segregation places African American students in a position that is naturally inferior to whites.
It is impossible to provide African Americans with an equal education without discriminating against white students.
What is a boycott?
a citizen-led meeting to protest a law
repealing a law because of protest
a punishment in public
refusal to buy a good or service
What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws?
to reestablish the plantation economy in the South
to prevent emancipated slaves from leaving the South
to prevent African Americans from exercising basic rights
to push African Americans to migrate to the North and West
Which situation resulted from the Jim Crow laws that were passed after Reconstruction?
Violence against white people in the South went unpunished.
Racial separation of African American and white societies was reinforced.
Student enrollment in historically black colleges and universities declined.
Emancipated slaves were prevented from migrating out of the South.
Which statement describes how the Jim Crow system affected southern society in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Emancipated slaves fleeing the South led to a shortage of unskilled labor for southern farms.
A new wave of radical activists migrated from the North to the South to fight for equal rights.
Large numbers of African Americans migrated to new colonies that had been set up in Africa.
African Americans were prevented from exercising the civil rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
What is Civil Disobedience?
Violent Protest
Revolutionary Protest
Peaceful Nonviolent Protest
An Injunction Protest
Which of the following are NOT examples of Civil Disobedience?
A Sit In
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Riders
John Brown's Armed Uprising
What was important about the Supreme Court Case, Plessy v. Ferguson?
It ended segregation.
It made "separate but equal" a legal option for states.
It ended slavery.
It granted voting rights to all Americans.
Which piece of legislation (law) did not help in the Civil Rights Movement?
27th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment
