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Civil Rights

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the goals of the Civil Rights Movement

a)

Fair and equal treatment of some citizens

b)

Fair and equal treatment of all citizens

c)

Fair and equal treatment of no citizens

2.

What is the meaning of “separate but equal”?

a)

Races can be separated in buildings and public areas if there were equal places for black and white

b)

Races must integrate all public buildings

c)

Only trains are to be segregated by race

d)

Schools must integrate but other public buildings can segregate

3.

What roll did Ruby Bridges play in the Civil Rights movement?

a)

She advocated for equality

b)

She was an activist in the Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

Her death sparked the Civil Rights Movement

d)

She helped to integrate all white schools in the south

4.

Martin Luther King was a supporter of....

a)

Non-violent resistence

b)

Segregation

c)

Black Power Movement

d)

Discrimination

5.

What are things that the US government did to support the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Created laws like the Civil Rights and Voting RIghts Act

b)

Sent in the US Marshals

c)

Sent in the US military

d)

All of these

6.

What sparked the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

The death of JFK

b)

The death of MLK

c)

The death of Malcolm X

d)

The death of Emmett Till

7.

What was the goal of Freedom Summer?

a)

Integrate buses

b)

Register black voters

c)

March on Washington

d)

Integrate schools

8.

Which Civil Rights leader advocated for NO Integration and self defense as a way to solve problems between black and white people?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Emmett Till

c)

Mohandas Gandhi

d)

Malcolm X

9.

Brown vs. Board of Education was the court case regarding what Civil Rights issue?

a)

School integration

b)

Voting rights

c)

Bus Integration

d)

Integration of public buildings

10.

The Black Panther Party was supported by what Civil Rights leader?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Mamie Till

11.

What is Civil Disobedience?

a)

Following laws

b)

Breaking all laws because you feel like it

c)

Refusal to follow unfair laws to advocate for change

d)

Refusal to follow fair laws

12.

Segregation was made legal in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case using the term....

a)

Separate but unequal

b)

Separate but fair

c)

Integrated and together

d)

Separate but equal

13.

What Civil Rights leader was the inspiration for non-violent protests and civil disobedience?

a)

Mohandas Gandhi

b)

Emmett Till

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Malcolm X

14.

What was the goal of the Freedom riders?

a)

To integrate schools

b)

To integrate buses and interstate travel between the North and the South

c)

To integrate courts

d)

To integrate all states

15.

This president sent in the US Army to help protect the Little Rock 9.

a)

Kennedy

b)

Eisenhower

c)

Obama

d)

Roosevelt

16.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, the effect was this....

a)

The Voting Rights Act

b)

The Civil Rights Act

c)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

Brown vs. Board of Education

17.

Define segregation:

a)

The bringing together of races

b)

The separation of races

c)

An opinion of someone not based on actual experience

d)

Equal rights

18.

Define integration:

a)

The bringing together of races

b)

The separation of races

c)

Refusal to use or buy until demands are met

d)

Equal rights for all people

19.

Sit-ins are an example of....

a)

Prejudice

b)

Segregation

c)

Boycott

d)

Civil Disobedience

20.

What was it called when people rode integrated buses from the North to the South and encountered violence and discrimination along the way?

a)

Freedom summer

b)

Boycott groups

c)

Freedom riders

d)

March on Washington