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Civil Rights Revolution Practice Test

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which two of the following people were the first to speak the words "Black Power" in speech?

a)

Huey Newton

b)

Kwame Ture

c)

H. Rap Brown

d)

Malcolm X

e)

Stokely Carmichael

2.

The symbol for the Black Power Movement became a raised--

a)

fist

b)

flag

c)

afro

d)

funds

3.

He was critical of the nonviolent protests of the Civil Rights Movement. Instead, he believed that African Americans should advance themselves by "any means necessary."

a)

Malcom X

b)

MLK

c)

Abraham Lincoln

4.

Environmentalism in the 19th Century was focused primarily on what?

a)

Conservation; ex. National Parks

b)

Pollution; ex. Environmental Protection Agency

c)

Global Warming; ex. Paris Climate Accord

d)

Animals; Endangered Species Act

5.

Environmentalism of the 1960's and 1970's focused primarily on what?

a)

Conservation; ex. National Parks

b)

Pollution; ex. Environmental Protection Agency

c)

Global Warming; ex. Paris Climate Accord

d)

Animals; ex. Endangered Species

6.

Environmentalism today focuses primarily on what?

a)

Conservation; ex. National Parks

b)

Pollution; ex. Environmental Protection Agency

c)

Global Warming; ex. Paris Climate Accord

d)

Animals; ex. Endangered Species

7.

Earth Day: April 22, 1970 was the largest nationwide protest. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Famous book authored by Biologist Rachel Carson 1962 that helped start the environmental movement

a)

East of Eden

b)

Grapes of Wrath

c)

Silent Spring

d)

1984

9.

Regarding ideas on African American civil rights, Booker T. Washington was considered more ________; while W.E.B. Dubois is considered more _______

a)

conservative; radical

b)

radical;conversvative

c)

Christian; Muslim

d)

political;economical

10.

Brown v Board of Education (1954) was a landmark supreme court case that did what?

a)

Gave African Americans the right to vote

b)

Desegregated public schools

c)

Guaranteed Voting Rights

d)

Outlawed Poll Taxes

11.

Famous voter registration drive that raised global awareness of racial violence and inspired support for the Civil Rights Act

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

b)

March on Washington

c)

Freedom Summer 1964

d)

Freedom Rides

12.

prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin…in the workplace especially

a)

Voting Rights Act 1965

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Civil Rights Act 1964

d)

Roe v Wade

13.

According to Pastor Hamill, Black Power is best described as?

a)

A serious attempt to build political and economic security

b)

Threaten violence against non-black citizens

c)

A revolution to create a Black nation

d)

Electrical power generated solely by African Americans

14.

First Wave feminism is most closely associated with what issue?

a)

Economic Freedom

b)

The Right to Vote

c)

Equal Pay

d)

Challenging traditional gender roles

15.

Second Wave Feminism is closely associated with what idea?

a)

The right to vote

b)

Equal Opportunity: pay, rights, etc.

c)

Challenging traditional gender roles

d)

Inclusivity

16.

Third Wave Feminism is most closely associated with?

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Equal Pay and Equal Opporutinites

c)

Inclusivity; intersectionality: race, class, gender

d)

Title IX

17.

Roe v Wade (1973) is considered a victory for Second Wave Feminism and equal rights to healthcare. It protects women's right to what?

a)

Education

b)

Sports

c)

Pay

d)

Abortions

18.

Zines are self-published works of art made popular by which Third Wave movement?

a)

Intersectionality

b)

Riot Grrl

c)

Title IX

d)

Seneca Falls Convention

19.

4) What was the ruling of Brown v Board of Education and what ruling did it overturn?

a)

Women have a right to an abortion, Miranda v Arizona

b)

Minorities have to be on juries, Delago v Bastrop ISD

c)

Citizens have few rights when in school, Tinker v Des Moines

d)

Segregation in schools is unconstitutional, Plessy V Ferguson

20.

Marvin Gaye protest song that argued for better environmental conditions?

a)

Mercy Mercy Me (the Ecology)

b)

What's Going On

c)

The Times They Are a Changin'

d)

Ohio

21.

Song that protested the actions of the National Guard, who killed Four Students at Kent University

a)

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

b)

Mercy Mercy Me (the Ecology) by Marvin Gaye

c)

De Colores by Unkown

d)

A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

22.

A way of life opposing established lifestyles and norms

a)

activism

b)

radical

c)

conservative

d)

counterculture

23.

Developed as the first of the ,modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s; subject of Rachel Carson's book

a)

DDT

b)

Fossil Fuels

c)

SDS

d)

Gender

24.

Doctrine advocating equality between the sexes

a)

Bigotry

b)

Feminism

c)

Gender

d)

Free-speech

25.

Those who reject conventional norms

a)

bigotry

b)

students

c)

sit-ins

d)

hippies

26.

A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met

a)

hostages

b)

sit-in

c)

walk-out

d)

freedom of speech.

27.

Bob Dylan song that argued for advancement in social, cultural, and political life.

a)

The Times Are Changing

b)

Ohio

c)

The Pill

d)

They Times They are a Changin'

28.

Challenging the treaty of Fort Laramie 1868, this protest lasted 19 months when 89 Native Americans and their supporters, led by Richard Oakes

a)

Occupation of Alacatraz

b)

Take a Knee

c)

Greensboro Sit-ins

d)

March on Selma

29.

This protest desegregated lunch counters in the south

a)

Occupation of Alacatraz

b)

Take a Knee

c)

Greensboro Sit-ins

d)

March on Selma

30.

"when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has been advertised on television" MLK Jr. is arguing an end to what legal and cultural practice?

a)

lynching

b)

segregation

c)

finding jobs

d)

voting

31.

In a speech in 1963, he defined Black Power as "a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community

a)

Stokley Carmichael

b)

Martin Luther King

c)

John Lewis

d)

Malcolm X

32.

This protest song celebrated women's newfound "social, economic, and cultural" freedoms; Loretta Lynn

a)

I am Woman

b)

The Pill

c)

Change is Gonna Come

d)

Ohio