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Unit 8

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the goal for the Apollo program?

a)

Send Americans to the moon and back

b)

Send Soviets to the moon and back

c)

Send Americans to Mars and back

d)

Send Soviets to Mars and back

2.

Which mission successfully sent men to the moon?

a)

Sputnik

b)

Apollo 11

c)

Gemini program

d)

NASA

3.

Which program was NOT a part of JFK’s New Horizon Plan?

a)

Landing on the moon

b)

Peace Corps

c)

Improve education

d)

End racial discrimination and poverty

e)

Increase segregation laws

4.

Who started a bus boycott and involved almost all of the black community?

a)

Malcom X

b)

Eugene “Bull” Connor

c)

Orval Faubus

d)

Rosa Parks

5.

Who was a southern black minister who joined in the fight for civil rights by starting the SCLC?

a)

Malcom X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr

c)

Storm Thurmond

d)

Orval Faubus

6.

Which civil rights activist used the Nation Of Islam to improve standing of Black Americans?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

Malcom X

d)

Rosa Parks

7.

Who was in charge of law enforcement in Alabama who used violent force to get rid of civil rights protestors?

a)

Strom Thurmond

b)

Malcom X

c)

Eugene “Bull” Connor

d)

Orval Faubus

8.

Who was the governor of Arkansas who sent the National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering Central High School?

a)

Malcom X

b)

Strom Thurmond

c)

Eugene “Bull” Connor

d)

Orval Faubus

9.

Who held a 24 hour filibuster to fight against civil rights and integration?

a)

Strom Thurmond

b)

Eugene “Bull” Connor

c)

Orval Faubus

d)

Rosa Parks

10.

What activist group occupied Alcatraz and later occupied the village of Wounded Knee?

a)

Stop ERA movement

b)

Caesar Chaves

c)

American Indian Movement

d)

National Organization of Women

11.

What movement fought for equality for Latin Americans?

a)

Roe v Wade

b)

United farm Workers Association

c)

Chicano Movement

d)

California Grape Growers strike

12.

Which two people formed the National Farm Workers Association which later lead to the California Grape Growers Strike?

a)

Cesar Chavez

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Dolores Huerta

d)

Phyllis Schlafly

13.

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique which led to the National Organization for Women?

a)

Rosa Park

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

Phyllis Schlafly

d)

Betty Friedan

14.

Who stopped the push for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Phyllis Schlafly

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Betty White

15.

Which Act prohibited federally funded colleges from discriminating against gender?

a)

Equal Rights Amendment

b)

Title IX

c)

Title IV

d)

Roe v Wade

16.

What court case ruled that states could not prohibit abortions during the first 3 months of pregnancy?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Roe v Wade

c)

Griswold v Connecticut

d)

Korematsu V United States

17.

Which court case prohibited states from violation women’s privacy when it came to health care? (Ex. Birth Control)

a)

Plessy V Ferguson

b)

Title IX

c)

Roe V Wade

d)

Griswold V Connecticut