WorksheetsUnit 7: The Civil Rights Movement - Ahrens SCI History
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What were "Jim Crow Laws?"
The time period before the Civil War
Racist laws that limited the rights of black Americans
The number of immigrants allowed in the US
What is the NAACP?
The name of a law that established the "Separate but equal" policy in the US
The Baseball League for black Americans before the MLB
A group that worked for the rights of black Americans, often through court cases
What important court case decision said public schools need to be integrated and that segregation was illegal?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
What does boycott mean?
Communism
Voting illegally
Refusing to give money to or refusing to support something
5. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides were protests about...
Voting
The rights of black Americans to travel freely in the South
Women's Rights
Who is the Civil Rights leader that was a baptist minister, who preached non-violence, and led peaceful protests from 1955 to 1968?
Stokely Carmichael
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Why did many protesters remain peaceful and use non-violence when protesting?
Because the were afraid of getting hurt and going to jail
To show the ugly and violent racism in the US, and to avoid starting riots
What was a major federal law that tried to end certain types of discrimination and racism?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Warsaw Pact
Plessy v. Ferguson
How were black Americans STOPPED from voting in the South before 1965?
They weren't stopped from voting
Literacy/reading tests, poll taxes($$$), violence
No one was allowed to vote
Who was the Civil Rights leader that believed in achieving rights through “any means necessary” and was NOT against violence?
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Rosa Parks
Who were the "Black Panthers?"
A peaceful group started by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A group of comic book characters popularized during the Civil Rights movement
A militant civil rights group that did not believe in "non-violence"
The movement for black people to have pride, run their own businesses, run their own schools and institutions was called.
Segregation
Discrimination
The Black Power movement
What was the name of the idea and movement that worked to give women more rights and equality in society during the Civil Rights movement?
Racism
Feminism
Tribalism
Other groups joined the Civil Rights movement to fight for more freedoms. What were some goals that Native Americans or Indians were trying to achieve?
Better employment, better wages, better housing, fair treatment
They wanted to make Columbus Day a national holiday
They demanded more prisons be built
Caesar Chavez was a wealthy farm owner who mistreated his workers.
True
False
