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WorksheetsMoving into the Civil Rights Movement 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
What were the purposes of Freedom Schools?
Teach African Americans to read and write.
Educate African Americans on their voting rights
Both
Neither
What year did the war on poverty begin?
(a)
The discrimination practice of denying African Americans bank loans to buy a home is
(a)
Who is considered the Father of the Harlem Renaissance?
Allain Locke
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
None of them
What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?
Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.
Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism
OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA
Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty
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 movement during the 1920s helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
Great Migration
Prohibition
NAACP
Harlem Renaissance
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 acts of protest during the Civil Rights Movement encouraged the government to expand political and economic opportunities for minority citizens?
March on Washington, Freedom Rides, Greensboro Sit-In, Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black Panthers
Mass Support Demonstrations
Little Rock Nine
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
This program created by Lyndon Johnson introduced programs like Head Start, HUD, Medicare, Food Stamps to reduce poverty and improve everyone’s quality of life-
HUAC
Great Society
New Deal
NAACP
True or False? The Montgomery Bus Boycott was effective because most people who rode the bus were black, and the bus company lost too much money once people boycotted.
True
False
