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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

2.
What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?
a)
Segregation in public schools became illegal
b)
African-Americans began playing profession sports
c)
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
d)
MLK led a March on Washington
3.
What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a)
It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
b)
It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
c)
It ended segregation in school
d)
It made poll taxes illegal
4.
What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a)
It gave African-American women the right to vote
b)
It made literacy tests to vote illegal
c)
It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
d)
It allowed all African-Americans to vote
5.

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois found?

a)

The Back to Africa Movement

b)

Tuskegee Institute

c)

NAACP

d)

Access for all movement

6.

What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

a)

large

b)

mad

c)

nonviolent

d)

violent

7.
Thurgood Marshall became _______.
a)
a president of the United States.
b)
a principal in a school who fought racism.
c)
the first African American on the Supreme Court.
d)
one of the authors of the constitution.
8.
To separate one group from another is ___________________.
a)
integration
b)
segregation
c)
Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow
9.
This banned the use of literacy tests.
a)
Civil Rights Act
b)
Civil Rights Movement
c)
Voting Rights Act
d)
Jim Crow Law
10.
which supreme court case ruled that separation is okay so long as it is equal? 
a)
Plessy V. Ferguson
b)
Dred Scott v. Sanford
c)
Marbury v. Madison
d)
Miranda v. Arizona
11.
 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was
a)
Harriet B. Stowe
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Michelle Obama
d)
Coretta King
12.
Which United States president ended segregation in the Armed Forces in 1948?
a)
Harry S. Truman 
b)
Lyndon Johnson 
c)
Dwight Eisenhower 
d)
John F. Kennedy
13.
How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?
a)
It gave free transportation to African Americans
b)
It segregated buses in America
c)
 It made Rosa Parks lots of money
d)
It helped de-segregate buses in America
14.
 Martin Luther King Jr believed in
a)
Violent protests
b)
Really loud protests
c)
Non-violent protests
d)
Violence  when needed protests
15.

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?

a)

denying the right to vote based on race or color

b)

denying the right to vote based on gender

c)

allowing people to vote multiple times

d)

allowing people under the age of 21 to vote

16.

What were the laws designed to keep white people and black people apart called?

a)

Segregation Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Seperation Laws

d)

Separate but Equal Laws

17.

A group of blacks and whites who rode a bus from Mississippi to Washington, D.C. to protest segregation were called the . . .

a)

Freedom Fighters

b)

Freedom Riders

c)

Freedom Keepers

d)

Freedom Starters

18.

A major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was to

a)

end racial segregation

b)

reduce prejudice against immigrants

c)

reform prison conditions

d)

improve living conditions for Native Americans

19.

In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Which Supreme Court decision was he enforcing?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Dred Scott v. Sanford

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Miranda v. Arizona

20.

Which of the following were examples of places that were segregated during the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Busses

b)

Restrooms/Water Fountains

c)

Houses

d)

All of the above

21.

Which statement accurately describes the trend of African American voter registration in the map?

a)

The Voting Rights Act had little impact on voter registration in the South

b)

Fewer African Americans registered to vote

c)

Passage of the Voting Rights Act ended racial discrimination in the South

d)

Voter registration increased in the South