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WorksheetsCivil Rights Test Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 25mins
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws that helped African Americans.
Laws that abolished segregation.
Laws that made it illegal for African American to mix with whites.
What was the outcome of the Montgomery bus boycott?
Harsher Jim Crow laws
Segregated buses were banned.
Buses stopped working
MLK Jr was killed in what year?
2008
1800
1968
1492
Why was the NAACP created ?
The government wanted to enforce labor laws
to create full equality among the races
to support hate groups such as the KKK
to help poor white men find jobs
what education case plays an important role in the NAACP ?
Brown vs. board of education
Marbury vs. Madison
gibbons vs. ogden
dread Scott vs. sandford
What was the voting rights act of 1965?
It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
It was a new law originally used to restrict black people and enforce literacy tests and grandfather laws trying to stop new votings.
Who did the 13th Amendment help?
All people.
All women.
All slaves.
The women’s organization called NOW stands for
New Options for Women
Now Open for Women
National Organization for Women
New Organization for Women
What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?
Guzman V. School
Brown V. Board of Education
Miranda V. Arizona
Plessy V. Ferguson
Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?
Dolores Huerta
Malcom X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ceaser Chavez
What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois sought immediate equality for minorities?
WAC
HUAC
NAACP
SNCC
What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?
Southern Peace Corps
NAACP
SNCC
Black Panthers
During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?
Tuskegee Airmen
Little Rock Nine
Atomic Bombs
Flying Tigers
What group/individuals sought to improve the treatment of migrant workers through boycotts and strikes?
SNCC, Martin Luther King
Black Panthers, Newton
United Farm Workers Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez
Immigration Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez
What happened as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the 24th Amendment?
Expanded the political and economic opportunities for minorities
Decreased the political and economic opportunities for minorities
What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?
Sit-in
Boycotts
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
The Alabama Governor who blocked the entrance of 2 African American students from entrance into the University of Alabama
George Wallace
Henry Clay
Cletus Gulliver
James Bond
What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?
Sat in the white only part of the bus.
Took a seat in the white only car of a train.
Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.
Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge
the Brown v. Board of Education case
Segregation and the Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction
equal pay for equal work
What type of cases did Marshall work on as a lawyer?
cases against segregation
cases against the homeless
cases against the farmers
What was Marshall's most famous victory?
Bahamas v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
Board v. Board of Education
______ was a Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who wanted to improve working and living conditions
James Loretta
Cesar Chavez
Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
Rocky Balboa
What were the three major goals of the Chicano Movement?
Restoration of Land
Rights for Farmworkers
Educational Reforms
All of the Above
What was the tittle of the book that Betty Friedan wrote?
Mythical Waterfalls
Mythical
The Feminine Mystique
Women's Rights
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded what organization?
United Farmworkers Associates
Brown Berrets
Black Panthers
Why was SNCC founded?
It was founded so younger black people who wanted the movement to make faster progress.
People did not approve or support Martin Luther King Jr's actions.
What did they accomplish?
To prison black people.
black rights
They increased the black elected officials in the southern states from seventy-two in 1965 to 388 in 1968.
The Supreme Court decision in (a) required desegregation of schools. The NAACP’s lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, helped argue the case.
What is the significance of the image shown in US History?
It showed the influence of Beat Generation artists.
It was commissioned by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts
It build Hispanic cultural pride
What is Jackie Robinson most famous for?
The first African-American to play Major League baseball
Founding the NAACP
The first African-American Supreme Court Justice
A scientist who discovered many uses for the peanut
First African-American Secretary of State
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
The first Asian American elected to the US Senate
The first woman elected to the American Congress
The first African American woman elected to the United States Congress
In 1972 Chisholm did something spectacular. What did she do?
She was the first woman and first African American to run for the presidency of the United States
She was the first Democrat to run for the presidency of the United States
She was the first Asian American to run for the vice presidency in the United States
