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WorksheetsSocial Change Test Review
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 27mins
Why is the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education considered an important civil rights case?
It declared the practice of school segregation unconstitutional.
It said that “separate-but-equal” schools were still legal and constitutional.
Schools had to be immediately desegregated.
It closed schools that were segregated.
What group of people were treated unfairly by the US during and after WWII?
Japanese Americans
Native Americans
African Americans
All of the aove
What role did President Truman play in the advancement of the civil rights movement?
He abolished the Jim Crow Laws
He ordered the end of discrimination
He ordered the desegregation of the army
He called for the passage of a Voting Rights Act
What did Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and Ida B. Wells have in common?
They published abolitionist newspapers.
They worked for improvements in civil rights.
They became Freedom Riders.
They established schools that were “separate-but-equal.”
What was the nickname for the laws that kept blacks and whites segregated?
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Jim Crow
Thurgood Marshall
Who believed change was not happening fast enough and encouraged his followers to rely on themselves as opposed to newly passed civil rights laws?
Martin Luther King, JR
Rosa Parks
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
What do John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr have in common?
All were Presidents
All were civil rights leaders
All were non-violent protestors for civil rights
All were Muslim leaders
Which made slavery illegal?
19th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Made all African Americans citizens of the US
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
What was a negative impact of suburbanization?
Cities focused on improving public transportation
More homes were built in the city center
Highways were built through areas of the city in which poor and minority people lived
There were no negative impacts
How did Ruth Bader Ginsburg help change laws for American women? Chose all that apply.
Helped women sit where they want to on buses
Assisted in making it legal for women to get credit cards without a man cosigning
Paved the way for women to work in aircraft factories
Made it illegal for colleges to deny admission to women based on their gender
Helped to make it illegal for women to be fired due to pregnancy
What organization did civil rights activist Cesar Chavez form?
National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
National Farm Workers Association
Congress of Racial Equality
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This president desegregated the military at the end of WWII.
Roosevelt
Truman
Kennedy
Eisenhower
How did the suburbs negatively affect minorities and the poor?
Provided them with housing
Helped them get housing loans
Offered them more public transportation
Took away their homes to build highways
This African American refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Ida B Wells
Rosa Parks
Sara Mae Fleming
Elizabeth Stanton
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?
Freedom Rides
Brown V Board of Education
NAACP
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This technology brought the abuses of Jim Crow laws into the living room.
radio
television
cell phone
newspaper
Lunch counter sit-ins, bus boycotts, Freedom Rides, and marches are examples of ___________.
Violent Protests
Fighting for Segregation
Court Cases
Peaceful Protests
unfair treatment of a group of people
boycott
discrimination
suffrage
amendment
Which gave all male citizens the right to vote?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Which gave women the right to vote?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Form of protest where people enter and remain seated for a long time in a public place
Freedom Riders
suffrage
boycott
sit-ins
Inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis in public places
boycott
integration
segregation
discrimination
Supreme Court decision making segregation legal as long as it was “separate but equal”
14th amendment
integration
Freedom Riders
Plessy v Ferguson
What did John F Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. all have in common?
They were all presidents
They were all African Americans
They were all ministers
They were all assassinated
Which of the following was a cause of the civil rights movement?
Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education
President Roosevelt ordered an end to discrimination
African Americans were denied equal rights
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1964
Following the assassination of President Kennedy, several civil rights laws were passed by Congress. Which statement best describes one purpose of those laws?
to integrate the military
to ban segregation in public places
to bring the civil rights movement to a close
to limit the voting rights of all Americans
