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Early Civil Rights Quiz Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The rights you have as a member of society

a)

Protest

b)

Equality

c)

Determined

d)

Civil Rights

2.

To keep a GROUP of people apart

a)

Integrate

b)

Segregation

c)

Equality

d)

Prejudice

3.

When everyone has the same rights

a)

Civil Rights

b)

Prejudice

c)

Segregation

d)

Equality

4.

State and local laws that enforced segregation.

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Boycott

c)

14th Amendment Laws

5.

To stop giving money or being close to as a punishment.

a)

Boycott

b)

Resist

c)

Break Down

6.
Which court case created the constitutionality of "Separate but Equal"?
a)
Plessy v Ferguson
b)
Texas v Johnson
c)
Marbury v Madison
d)
Miranda v. Arizona
7.
What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?
a)
African-Americas could play sports
b)
Segregation of public schools became legal
c)
Segregation in public schools became illegal
d)
MLK led the March on Washington
8.
Which amendment ensured citizenship and the basic rights of all citizens?  
a)
13th amendment
b)
14th amendment
c)
15th amendment
d)
16th amendment
9.
 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?
a)
Freedom Rides
b)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
c)
March on Washington
d)
March from  Selma to Montgomery
10.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal".

a)

Sweatt v. Painter

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Mendez v. Kirby ISD

11.
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
a)
Sit-In
b)
Freedom Rides
c)
Selma March
d)
Filibuster
12.
Which president integrated the military and federal government?
a)
Truman
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Kennedy
13.
Refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Selma March
c)
Little Rock Nine
d)
Civil Disobedience
14.
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, within the United States.
a)
15th Amendment
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson
c)
13th Amendment
d)
14th Amendment
15.
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states to challenge segregation and Jim Crow laws.
a)
Freedom rides
b)
Selma March
c)
Sit –in
d)
Black Panthers
16.
African-American civil rights organization which is closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
a)
Black Panthers
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
d)
Little Rock Nine
17.
Eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Integration
c)
freedom rides
d)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
18.
The refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy thru non-violent means.
a)
Affirmative Action
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Civil Disobedience
d)
Integration
19.
Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
a)
14th Amendment
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Sweat v Painter
d)
Plessy v. Ferguson
20.
African-American civil rights organization formed in 1909 by W. E. B. Du Bois and others.  Mainly used legal battles to win civil rights victories.
a)
Black Panthers
b)
Little Rock Nine
c)
N.A.A.C.P.
d)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
21.

a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.

a)

activist

b)

laborers

c)

union

d)

concerned

22.

a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer

a)

strike

b)

boycott

c)

founded

d)

tactic

23.

In what state did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place?

a)

Mississippi

b)

Georgia

c)

Alabama

d)

Texas

24.

Several months before the boycott began, what other major event took place?

a)

Passage of the Voting Rights Act

b)

Passage of the 14th Amendment

c)

End of WWII

d)

Murder of Emmet Till

25.

This legislation outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting

a)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Executive Order 8802

c)

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1968

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