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Unit 7: The Civil Rights Movement - Ahrens SCI History

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were "Jim Crow Laws?"

a)

The time period before the Civil War

b)

Racist laws that limited the rights of black Americans

c)

The number of immigrants allowed in the US

2.

What is the NAACP?

a)

The name of a law that established the "Separate but equal" policy in the US

b)

The Baseball League for black Americans before the MLB

c)

A group that worked for the rights of black Americans, often through court cases

3.

What important court case decision said public schools need to be integrated and that segregation was illegal?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

c)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

4.

What does boycott mean?

a)

Communism

b)

Voting illegally

c)

Refusing to give money to or refusing to support something

5.

5. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides were protests about...

a)

Voting

b)

The rights of black Americans to travel freely in the South

c)

Women's Rights

6.

Who is the Civil Rights leader that was a baptist minister, who preached non-violence, and led peaceful protests from 1955 to 1968?

a)

Stokely Carmichael

b)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

7.

Why did many protesters remain peaceful and use non-violence when protesting?

a)

Because the were afraid of getting hurt and going to jail

b)

To show the ugly and violent racism in the US, and to avoid starting riots

8.

What was a major federal law that tried to end certain types of discrimination and racism?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

The Warsaw Pact

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

9.

How were black Americans STOPPED from voting in the South before 1965?

a)

They weren't stopped from voting

b)

Literacy/reading tests, poll taxes($$$), violence

c)

No one was allowed to vote

10.

Who was the Civil Rights leader that believed in achieving rights through “any means necessary” and was NOT against violence?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Rosa Parks

11.

Who were the "Black Panthers?"

a)

A peaceful group started by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

A group of comic book characters popularized during the Civil Rights movement

c)

A militant civil rights group that did not believe in "non-violence"

12.

The movement for black people to have pride, run their own businesses, run their own schools and institutions was called.

a)

Segregation

b)

Discrimination

c)

The Black Power movement

13.

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?

a)

Racism

b)

Feminism

c)

Tribalism

14.

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?

a)

Better employment, better wages, better housing, fair treatment

b)

They wanted to make Columbus Day a national holiday

c)

They demanded more prisons be built

15.

Caesar Chavez was a wealthy farm owner who mistreated his workers.

a)

True

b)

False