WorksheetsReview - Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is the main principle of passive resistance?
Using violence to achieve goals
Using physical force to resist authority
Nonviolent opposition to authority, particularly through non-cooperation with legal requirements
Using military strategies to resist authority
What is civil disobedience?
Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What event started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What did Brown v. Board of Education overturn?
Who was the lead attorney in Brown v. Board of Education?
What was the final vote amongst the Supreme Court justices in Brown v. Board of Education?
What was "massive resistance" in the American South in the 1950s?
A movement to resist the Montgomery bus company
What Amendment did segregation defy?
The Sit-ins in Greensboro, NC were organized by...
The Sit-in movement led to the creation of...
A movement to desegregate bus terminals...
Was initiated by A. Philip Randolph
In what city did Martin Luther King, Jr. orchestrate a demonstration in 1963?
Who was the Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety?
James Earl Ray
A. Philip Randolph
George Wallace
Who stood in the Alabama University doorway in an attempt to prevent integration?
Bull Connor
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail was in response to?
Who wrote, "For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never."?
John F. Kennedy
What was the main goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
To end racial segregation in schools
To give women the right to vote
To end racial segregation in public places and ban employment discrimination
To give African Americans the right to vote
Reorder the following in chronological order:
Passage of the 14th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
