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Unit 6 Social Change Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was NOT a result of whites moving to suburbs outside the city?

a)

increased traffic

b)

transit systems (public transportation) lost money in the city

c)

minorities and the poor were able to get better jobs

d)

expressways were built and apartment homes were knocked down

2.

What is an ideal?

a)

a principle or standard to aim for

b)

a new law

c)

a good idea

d)

something illegal

3.

Which of the following is NOT one of America's ideals?

a)

Promote democracy

b)

separate all races

c)

Promote equality among racial minorities

d)

Provide individual freedom of rights

4.

A group of African-American pilots who were segregated and faced discrimination during WWII were

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Tuskegee AirmenJim Crows

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

Little Rock Nine

5.

What was the Chicano Rights Movement?

a)

sought to end discrimination against Mexican Americans and to give equal rights (workplace, school, voting, and land)

b)

the movement of Mexican Americans across the United States

c)

a Supreme Court case

d)

a fight against Jim Crow Laws

6.

What is a contradiction?

a)

a combination of statements or ideas that are in opposition of each other

b)

an agreement

c)

a type of law

d)

the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education

7.

The migration or movement of white, middle class people from cities to suburbs was known as

a)

Chicano Rights Movement

b)

White Flight

c)

Civil Rights Movement

d)

Freedom Rides

8.

What event was organized by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in which black riders traveled to the South and entered “white only” areas?

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

Sit ins

d)

Civil Rights Movement

9.

What contradictions to America's ideals about democracy and equality occur before, during and after WWII?

a)

America treated all people equally.

b)

America was putting African Americans in concentration camps.

c)

America was discriminating against a number of groups including African Americans, Native Americans, and women.

d)

America was only discriminating against African Americans.

10.

Laws in the South that enforced segregation in public places were known as

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

White Flight

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Civil Rights Movement

11.

What was Executive Order 9981?

a)

desegregated the armed forces

b)

allowed segregation in the military

c)

desegregated the schools

d)

a Jim Crow law

12.

Who led nonviolent protests in the fight for civil rights for all, including African-Americans and gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

President Truman

d)

Malcolm X

13.

Which of the following was a direct result of Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of the bus?

a)

A. the Freedom Rides

b)

B. the Greensboro sit-ins

c)

C. Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

D. the Montgomery Bus Boycott

14.

How did the United States help Somalia?

a)

sent them to college

b)

helped refugees who were escaping violence and drought

c)

brought them to the United States

d)

The United States did not help.

15.

What outlawed discrimination (in all public places) and segregation?

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Executive Order 9980

d)

Jim Crow Laws

16.

Why is the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education considered an important civil rights case?

a)

A. It declared the practice of school segregation unconstitutional.

b)

B. It said that “separate-but-equal” schools were still legal and constitutional.

c)

C. It desegregated the armed forces.

d)

D. It closed all schools immediately.

17.

Who wanted a separate nation for black people and did not believe in peaceful protests at first?

a)

A. Martin Luther King, JR

b)

B. Malcolm X

c)

C. John F. Kennedy

d)

D. Rosa Parks

18.

This was a peaceful form of action in which African-Americans waited patiently in restaurants to be served.

a)

Violent protest

b)

Boycott

c)

Sit-in

d)

Desegregation

19.

This was created to help veterans of WWII by helping them with college, home mortgages and veterans' hospitals:

a)

Separate But Equal

b)

Executive Order 9980

c)

14th Amendment

d)

GI Bill

20.

Which title best completes the graphic organizer?

a)

A. Peaceful Protests

b)

B. Restaurant Protests

c)

C. Little Rock Nine

d)

D. Jim Crow Laws