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WorksheetsCivil Rights Quiz 1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 14mins
What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?
Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz
Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare
Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor
Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl
What foreign policy guided American presidents during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism?
Open Door Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
Big Stick Policy
Containment
What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Truman Doctrine
Big Stick Policy
What individual/group contributed to the Red Scare and accused American citizens of being communists?
Martin Luther King & Black Panthers
Jane Addams & Settlement Houses
Joseph McCarthy & HUAC
Cesar Chavez & United Farmworkers Union
During what event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict?
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam War
What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Domino Theory
Open Door Policy
What did Churchill call the dividing line between the East & West?
The Iron Curtain
The Steel Drape
The Aluminum Blind
Which of the following BEST defines Segregation?
no separation of people by race or ethnicity
separation of people by race or ethnicity
The act of disliking someone based on race or ethnicity
The court case Brown v Board of Education changed...
All American citizens could use the same transportation
Separate but equal schools was not allowed
Separate but equal schoolswas now allowed
Who is the man who broke the professional baseball color barrier on April 15th, 1947? (pictured above)
Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
Larry Doby
Ray Campanella
The man known for advocating for non-vilent protests, civil disobedience against unjust laws, and speeches of wanting ALL Americans to live together
John F Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcolm X
What is the name for the laws that discriminated against people because of their race?
Southern
Slavery
Jim Crow
Integration
Which Civil Rights leader also became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
W.E.B Du Bois
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
