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Worksheets2022 Civil Rights Test Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who was murdered by 2 white men for talking "inappropriately" to a white woman in Mississippi?
Medgar Evers
Stokely Carmichael
Emmett Till
James Farmer
Which principal of the Constitution establishes that the U.S. is run by representatives in government?
free enterprise
federalism
division of powers
republicanism
WHat was the point of this proposed WW II march on Washington that was stopped because FDR responded toA. Phillip Randolph?
End segregation on railroads
End segregation in defense industry companies
End segregation on interstate busses
End segregation in public facilities
What/who convinces the U.S. government to strengthen the U.S. navy?
The Spanish American War
Alfred T. Mahan's book "The influence of Seapower Upon World History"
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani for control of Hawaii
What frees the slaves in the USA?
Emancipation Proclamation
Homestead Act
Manifest Destiny
Thirteenth Amendment
Who felt the U.S. needed to make the world safe for democracy at the start of the Great War?
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
The idea that it is illegal to deny the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude comes from....
Voting Rights Act of 1965
15th Amendment
24th Amendment
The Populist movement
Poll taxes are made unconstitutional by....
the 9th Amendment
The Missouri Compromise
The 24th Amendment
the 16th Amendment
The sit-in movement should be linked with what civil rights group?
NAACP
CORE
SCLC
SNCC
What is the important accomplishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Ends Segregated Schools
Ends the Grandfather Clause
Ends segregation in all public facilities
Creates the Fair Housing Law
Why is the 1963 March on Washington significant?
It shuts down the government
It leads to the passage of anti-Jim Crow legislation
It leads to horrible rioting
It leads to President Kennedy being voted out of office
What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?
register federal election voters
force interstate bus desegregation
force local bus desegregation
desegregate restaurants
Who was chief attorney of the NAACP and the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
Medgar Evers
Ralph Abernathy
Jesse Jackson
Thurgood Marshall
What happened after Malcolm X took his pilgrimage to Mecca?
He became Imam of Nation of Islam
He was assassinated by Nation of Islam
He was lynched by the KKK
He allied Nation of Islam with the Black Panthers
What brought about the order that all public schools in the U.S. be desegregated?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sweat v Painter
Brown v Board
Plessy v Ferguson
Whose action led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Elizabeth Eckford
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Ralph Abernathy
This trial highlighted the dichotomy of the 1920's by pitting fundamentalism against science.
Schenck v USA
Scopes Monkey Trial
Korematsu v USA
Tinker vs Des Moines
The leading reason for the Great Migration, aside from a desire to escape Jim Crow laws of the south, was.....
The Spanish American War
Available factory jobs in the north
Land through the Homestead Act
The Dust Bowl
What had to be replaced because it created a central government so weak it couldn't even impose taxes to fund the federal government?
The Bill of Rights
The Mayflower Compact
The Articles of Confederation
The Dawes Plan
Which of the following are key figures of the Harlem Renaissance?
John Scopes and Clarence Darrow
Albert Fall and Warren Harding
Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes
Georgia OKeefe and Al Jolson
What created the FDIC to help stabilize the U.S. banking industry?
The Works Progress Administration
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
The Federal Reserve Act
The Securities and Exchange Commission
Which of the "five that survive" included flood control, electrical production, and the creation of jobs?
SSA
FDIC
TVA
SEC
FHA
Which of these was a form of teenage rebellion against conformity and control?
Gospel music
Country and Western music
Big band jazz
Rock and Roll music
In what year was the Brown v Board ruling issued?
1896
1954
1955
1957
What movement emerged because of frustration with the slow progress of the Civil Rights Movement?
Back to Africa
SNCC
The Children's March
Black Power
African American students integrating Central High School in Little Rock were given protection by whom from which president?
The National Guard by President Truman
The State Police by President Eisenhower
Federal troop by President Eisenhower
Federal troop by President Kennedy
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in the African American Civil Right movement because of...
The Birmingham March
The March on Washington
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The desegregation of Central High School
What satisfy Southern justices and get a unanimous ruling in Brown v Board of Education, Chief Justice Earl Warren had to...
Add the term "with all deliberate speed" to the ruling
Declare a specific hard deadline for desegregation
Limit the ruling to apply to only high schools and universities
Grandfather some states to exemption
With whom did MLK share the concept of nonviolent protest?
Huey P. Newton
Mohandas Gandhi
Marcus Garvey
WEB DuBois
What specifies individual rights in the U.S.?
The Articles of Confederation
The Bill of Rights
THe Northwest Ordinance
Manifest Destiny
Which of these prohibited segregation in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
14th Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Interstate Bussing Act
Which of the following freed the slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Bill of Rights
The Missouri Compromise
The 13th Amendment
What strategy best resulted in favorable government action in the Civil Rights Movement?
Violent outbreaks that caused destruction
Non-violent protests
African Americans assuming control of Congress
Blackmail and extortion
What group chipped away at Plessey v Ferguson after WW II?
CORE
SCLC
Black Panthers
NAACP
Which of the following correctly categorizes segregation by law?
debris
de jure
detente
de facto
Which of the following events in NOT from the Civil Rights movement?
Montgomery bus boycott
Lunch counter sit-ins
Silent Spring
Freedom Summer
What status had MLK Jr reached by 1963?
Symbol of the Civil Rights movement
An American social outcast
Hated high profile criminal
Federal Circuit Court Justice
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" served what purpose?
A call to battle white violence
A call to embrace non-violent protest
To call attention to inhumane conditions in prison
To expound on the real liberties found in the U.S.
At what point was there a decision to divide Germany post WW II?
The Atlantic Charter
Yalta Conference
United Nations Charter convention
The Versailles Treaty
The Sweat v. Painter decision required the African American, Herman Sweat, be allowed to attend the previously segregated UT law school. This provided a precedent for what later landmark court case?
Plessey v Ferguson
Schenck v US
Brown v Board of Education
Delgado v Bastrop ISD
