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Civil Rights Vocabulary:

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Policy that favors individuals from groups that have been discriminated against in the past (diversidad )

a)

Affirmative Action

b)

Desegregation

c)

Segregation

d)

Executive Order

2.

Policy of separating different racial or ethnic groups in public

separando

a)

Affirmative Action

b)

Segregation

c)

Desegregation

d)

Integration

3.

Policy of intermixing people of different races that had been previously segregated

integrando personas

a)

education

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Integration

d)

Segregation

4.

Rule or order issued by the president that has the force of law to carry out the operations of the government

Orden de la presidenta

a)

Codified Laws

b)

Proposed Bills

c)

Proposed Acts

d)

Executive Order

5.

Policy which eliminates the practice of isolating, separating, or setting a particular group apart

eliminada

a)

segregation

b)

Desegregation

c)

mixed races

d)

public school

6.

The image is important because it depicts:

la foto representa

a)

Million Man March on Washington

b)

Little Rock Nine

c)

Sit -Ins

d)

Freedom Rides

7.

Use of nonviolent actions to protest unfair government actions and practices

no violento

a)

Civil Disobedience

b)

Violent Protest

c)

Black Panthers

d)

NAACP

8.

1948 with Executive Order 9981.

a)

desegregate the military forces

b)

enforce segregation

c)

segregate the military forces

9.

guaranteed the right to vote to any male citizen, regardless of race or having previously been enslaved.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

10.

This amendment stated, “The rights of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older may vote

a)

18th Amendment

b)

21st Amendment

c)

EXO 9066

d)

26th Amendment

11.

This decision stated that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and ordered the states to desegregate public schools

a)

Hernandez v. Texas

b)

Little Rock Nine

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Brown v Board of Education

12.

Who stated: “I Have a Dream”-- August 28, 1963

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Martin Luther (95 Thesis)

d)

Malcom X

13.

Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the letter while sitting in jail after being arrested for a non-violent march and protest against racism

a)

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

b)

“I Have a Dream”

c)

Little Rock Nine

d)

Brown v Board of Education

14.

wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963 and organized the National Organization of Women (NOW) in 1966

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Claire Huxtable

15.

This law attempted to increase the number of African Americans voting by removing the barriers put in place to keep them from registering to vote

"was ineffective"

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

b)

Brown V. Board of Education

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

16.

The law also established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ensure fairness in employment practices.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

17.

It effectively ended barriers such as literacy tests with unfair questions used to prevent African Americans from voting.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964