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G5 civil rights

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

 During the _____, the conflict between the United States and the  Soviet Union did not result in armed fighting.

a)

Cold War

b)

recession

c)

freedom ride

2.

 An____ is a temporary increase in the price of something that is  unrelated to its actual value.

a)

prejudice

b)

stimulus

c)

economic bubble

3.

President Obama’s _____ plan for included ideas to create new jobs.

a)

hostge

b)

coalition

c)

stimulus

4.

Being held in jail without a trial is a violation of _____. 

a)

integration

b)

surveillance

c)

human rights

5.

Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to 

go to jail.

a)

affirmative action

b)

civil disobedience

c)

segregation

6.

A Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in schools.

a)

Brown v Board of Education

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

arms race

d)

terrorism

7.

 Protests in the 1950s and 1960s against the unfair 

treatment of African Americans and other minorities. 

a)

recession

b)

hijack

c)

civil rights movement

d)

civil rights disobedience

8.

Bringing people of different groups together in society or 

in an organization.

a)

stimulus

b)

supply-side economics

c)

desegregration

d)

integration

9.

 New technology makes ______ , or watching people, easier.  

a)

stimulus

b)

surplus

c)

surveillance

d)

discrimination

10.

In order to get the law passed, different groups formed a ______.

a)

coalition

b)

hijack

c)

surplus

d)

recession

11.

Ending the policy of keeping people of different races 

separate.

a)

racism

b)

coalition

c)

desegregation

d)

surplus

12.

 Trickle-down economics is another term for ______.

a)

affirmative action

b)

recession

c)

supply-side economics

d)

surveillance

13.

Bus trip taken by black and white volunteers to test a 

desegregation law.

a)

Freedom Ride

b)

Civil Disobedience

c)

Hostage

d)

Economic bubble

14.

 When the government has a ______ ,

it has more money than it needs  to pay the bills.  

a)

supply-side economics

b)

surplus

c)

racism

d)

hijack

15.

The Department of Homeland Security was set up to oversee the fight  against ________. 

a)

racism

b)

integration

c)

affirmative action

d)

terrorism

16.

A policy to bring in qualified minority applicants.

a)

civil disobedience

b)

affirmative action

c)

Jim Crow laws

17.

Showing disapproval or resistance in a way that does not 

include violence.

a)

terrorism

b)

civil rights movement

c)

nonviolent protest

18.

 Laws that supported segregation and took away African 

Americans' right to vote.

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

segragation

c)

affirmative action

19.

 The protections and privileges guaranteed by law to 

citizens of a country.

a)

civil rights

b)

integration

c)

prejudice

20.

Dislike of certain people based on race, gender, or other 

characteristics.

a)

prejudice

b)

stimulus

c)

surveillance

21.

A belief that people of one race are superior to the people 

of another.

a)

racsm

b)

arms race

c)

hostage

22.

Treating one group of people unfairly on the basis of race, 

gender, or some other factor.

a)

prejudice

b)

hostage

c)

human rights

d)

discrimination

23.

A policy of keeping people of different races separate.

a)

segregation

b)

coalition

c)

prejudice

d)

civil disobedience