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Civil Rights Test Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were Jim Crow laws?

a)

Laws that helped African Americans.

b)

Laws that abolished segregation.

c)

Laws that made it illegal for African American to mix with whites.

2.

What was the outcome of the Montgomery bus boycott?

a)

Harsher Jim Crow laws

b)

Segregated buses were banned.

c)

Buses stopped working

3.

MLK Jr was killed in what year?

a)

2008

b)

1800

c)

1968

d)

1492

4.

Why was the NAACP created ?

a)

The government wanted to enforce labor laws

b)

to create full equality among the races

c)

to support hate groups such as the KKK

d)

to help poor white men find jobs

5.

what education case plays an important role in the NAACP ?

a)

Brown vs. board of education

b)

Marbury vs. Madison

c)

gibbons vs. ogden

d)

dread Scott vs. sandford

6.

What was the voting rights act of 1965?

a)

It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.

b)

It was a new law originally used to restrict black people and enforce literacy tests and grandfather laws trying to stop new votings.

7.
Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
8.
Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
9.
Which amendment said anyone born in United States is a citizen in 1868?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
10.
What does abolish mean?
a)
to get rid of
b)
to make shiny
11.
Did the 15th Amendment give women the right to vote?
a)
YES
b)
NO
12.

Who did the 13th Amendment help?

a)

All people.

b)

All women.

c)

All slaves.

13.

The women’s organization called NOW stands for

a)

New Options for Women

b)

Now Open for Women

c)

National Organization for Women

d)

New Organization for Women

14.

What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

a)

Guzman V. School

b)

Brown V. Board of Education

c)

Miranda V. Arizona

d)

Plessy V. Ferguson

15.

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

a)

Dolores Huerta

b)

Malcom X

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Ceaser Chavez

16.

What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois sought immediate equality for minorities?

a)

WAC

b)

HUAC

c)

NAACP

d)

SNCC

17.

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

a)

Southern Peace Corps

b)

NAACP

c)

SNCC

d)

Black Panthers

18.

During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Little Rock Nine

c)

Atomic Bombs

d)

Flying Tigers

19.

What group/individuals sought to improve the treatment of migrant workers through boycotts and strikes?

a)

SNCC, Martin Luther King

b)

Black Panthers, Newton

c)

United Farm Workers Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

d)

Immigration Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

20.

What happened as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the 24th Amendment?

a)

Expanded the political and economic opportunities for minorities

b)

Decreased the political and economic opportunities for minorities

21.

What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?

a)

Sit-in

b)

Boycotts

c)

Freedom Rides

d)

March on Washington

22.

The Alabama Governor who blocked the entrance of 2 African American students from entrance into the University of Alabama

a)

George Wallace

b)

Henry Clay

c)

Cletus Gulliver

d)

James Bond

23.

What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?

a)

Sat in the white only part of the bus.

b)

Took a seat in the white only car of a train.

c)

Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.

24.

Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge

a)

the Brown v. Board of Education case

b)

Segregation and the Jim Crow laws

c)

Reconstruction

d)

equal pay for equal work

25.

What type of cases did Marshall work on as a lawyer?

a)

cases against segregation

b)

cases against the homeless

c)

cases against the farmers

26.

What was Marshall's most famous victory?

a)

Bahamas v. Board of Education

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Board v. Board of Education

27.

______ was a Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who wanted to improve working and living conditions

a)

James Loretta

b)

Cesar Chavez

c)

Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales

d)

Rocky Balboa

28.

What were the three major goals of the Chicano Movement?

a)

Restoration of Land

b)

Rights for Farmworkers

c)

Educational Reforms

d)

All of the Above

29.

What was the tittle of the book that Betty Friedan wrote?

a)

Mythical Waterfalls

b)

Mythical

c)

The Feminine Mystique

d)

Women's Rights

30.

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded what organization?

a)

United Farmworkers Associates

b)

Brown Berrets

c)

Black Panthers

31.
Which term is the best meaning of "suffrage"?
a)
the right for women to protest
b)
the right to vote in elections
c)
citizenship
d)
freedom
32.
Which of the following responses best supports the 15th Amendment of the Constitution?
a)
A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender.
b)
A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on race.
c)
A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on age.
d)
No one can be denied the right to vote. 
33.
Which amendment did the Voting Right Act of 1965 reinforce?
a)
The 15th Amendment protects minorities' right to vote
b)
The 1st Amendment's freedom of speech
c)
The 13th Amendment makes slavery illegal
d)
The 10th Amendment allowing states to make voting laws
34.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to
a)
let African Americans ride the bus.
b)
deny someone of a job because of their race.
c)
fire someone for not doing their job.
d)
kick someone out of the military.
35.
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
a)
Sit-In
b)
Freedom Rides
c)
Selma March
d)
Filibuster
36.
Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a)
Lyndon B. Johnson
b)
John F. Kennedy
37.
The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage    
a)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
b)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
38.

Why was SNCC founded?

a)

It was founded so younger black people who wanted the movement to make faster progress.

b)

People did not approve or support Martin Luther King Jr's actions.

39.

What did they accomplish?

a)

To prison black people.

b)

black rights

c)

They increased the black elected officials in the southern states from seventy-two in 1965 to 388 in 1968.

40.

The Supreme Court decision in ​ (a)   required desegregation of schools. The NAACP’s lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, helped argue the case.

Choose from the below words
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
41.

What is the significance of the image shown in US History?

a)

It showed the influence of Beat Generation artists.

b)

It was commissioned by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts

c)

It build Hispanic cultural pride

42.
What professional sport did Jackie Robinson integrate in 1947?
a)
college football
b)
major league baseball
c)
professional football
d)
tennis
43.

What is Jackie Robinson most famous for?

a)

The first African-American to play Major League baseball

b)

Founding the NAACP

c)

The first African-American Supreme Court Justice

d)

A scientist who discovered many uses for the peanut

e)

First African-American Secretary of State

44.

Who was Shirley Chisholm?

a)

The first Asian American elected to the US Senate

b)

The first woman elected to the American Congress

c)

The first African American woman elected to the United States Congress

45.

In 1972 Chisholm did something spectacular. What did she do?

a)

She was the first woman and first African American to run for the presidency of the United States

b)

She was the first Democrat to run for the presidency of the United States

c)

She was the first Asian American to run for the vice presidency in the United States