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Social Change Test Review

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why is the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education considered an important civil rights case?

a)

It declared the practice of school segregation unconstitutional.

b)

It said that “separate-but-equal” schools were still legal and constitutional.

c)

Schools had to be immediately desegregated.

d)

It closed schools that were segregated.

2.

What group of people were treated unfairly by the US during and after WWII?

a)

Japanese Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

All of the aove

3.

What role did President Truman play in the advancement of the civil rights movement?

a)

He abolished the Jim Crow Laws

b)

He ordered the end of discrimination

c)

He ordered the desegregation of the army

d)

He called for the passage of a Voting Rights Act

4.

What did Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and Ida B. Wells have in common?

a)

They published abolitionist newspapers.

b)

They worked for improvements in civil rights.

c)

They became Freedom Riders.

d)

They established schools that were “separate-but-equal.”

5.

What was the nickname for the laws that kept blacks and whites segregated?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Thurgood Marshall

6.

Who believed change was not happening fast enough and encouraged his followers to rely on themselves as opposed to newly passed civil rights laws?

a)

Martin Luther King, JR

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Malcolm X

7.

What do John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr have in common?

a)

All were Presidents

b)

All were civil rights leaders

c)

All were non-violent protestors for civil rights

d)

All were Muslim leaders

8.

Which made slavery illegal?

a)

19th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

14th Amendment

d)

15th Amendment

9.

Made all African Americans citizens of the US

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

10.

What was a negative impact of suburbanization?

a)

Cities focused on improving public transportation

b)

More homes were built in the city center

c)

Highways were built through areas of the city in which poor and minority people lived

d)

There were no negative impacts

11.

How did Ruth Bader Ginsburg help change laws for American women? Chose all that apply.

a)

Helped women sit where they want to on buses

b)

Assisted in making it legal for women to get credit cards without a man cosigning

c)

Paved the way for women to work in aircraft factories

d)

Made it illegal for colleges to deny admission to women based on their gender

e)

Helped to make it illegal for women to be fired due to pregnancy

12.

What organization did civil rights activist Cesar Chavez form?

a)

National Association of the Advancement of Colored People

b)

National Farm Workers Association

c)

Congress of Racial Equality

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

13.

This president desegregated the military at the end of WWII.

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Truman

c)

Kennedy

d)

Eisenhower

14.

How did the suburbs negatively affect minorities and the poor?

a)

Provided them with housing

b)

Helped them get housing loans

c)

Offered them more public transportation

d)

Took away their homes to build highways

15.

This African American refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.

a)

Ida B Wells

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Sara Mae Fleming

d)

Elizabeth Stanton

16.

For 381 days, African Americans refused to ride the bus in order to peacefully protest against segregation on buses. What is the name of this protest?

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

Brown V Board of Education

c)

NAACP

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

17.

This technology brought the abuses of Jim Crow laws into the living room.

a)

radio

b)

television

c)

cell phone

d)

newspaper

18.

Lunch counter sit-ins, bus boycotts, Freedom Rides, and marches are examples of ___________.

a)

Violent Protests

b)

Fighting for Segregation

c)

Court Cases

d)

Peaceful Protests

19.

unfair treatment of a group of people

a)

boycott

b)

discrimination

c)

suffrage

d)

amendment

20.

Which gave all male citizens the right to vote?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

21.

Which gave women the right to vote?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

22.

Form of protest where people enter and remain seated for a long time in a public place

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

suffrage

c)

boycott

d)

sit-ins

23.

Inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis in public places

a)

boycott

b)

integration

c)

segregation

d)

discrimination

24.

Supreme Court decision making segregation legal as long as it was “separate but equal”

a)

14th amendment

b)

integration

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

Plessy v Ferguson

25.

What did John F Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. all have in common?

a)

They were all presidents

b)

They were all African Americans

c)

They were all ministers

d)

They were all assassinated

26.

Which of the following was a cause of the civil rights movement?

a)

Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education

b)

President Roosevelt ordered an end to discrimination

c)

African Americans were denied equal rights

d)

Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1964

27.

Following the assassination of President Kennedy, several civil rights laws were passed by Congress. Which statement best describes one purpose of those laws?

a)

to integrate the military

b)

to ban segregation in public places

c)

to bring the civil rights movement to a close

d)

to limit the voting rights of all Americans