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Civil Rights Quiz 1

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?

a)

Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz

b)

Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare

c)

Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor

d)

Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl

2.

What foreign policy guided American presidents during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism?

a)

Open Door Policy

b)

Dollar Diplomacy

c)

Big Stick Policy

d)

Containment

3.

What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Domino Theory

c)

Truman Doctrine

d)

Big Stick Policy

4.

What individual/group contributed to the Red Scare and accused American citizens of being communists?

a)

Martin Luther King & Black Panthers

b)

Jane Addams & Settlement Houses

c)

Joseph McCarthy & HUAC

d)

Cesar Chavez & United Farmworkers Union

5.

During what event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict?

a)

Berlin Airlift

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Korean War

d)

Vietnam War

6.

What policy implemented in the Cold War said the U.S. would give military aid to a country that needed to resist communism?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

Domino Theory

d)

Open Door Policy

7.

What did Churchill call the dividing line between the East & West?

a)

The Iron Curtain

b)

The Steel Drape

c)

The Aluminum Blind

8.

Which of the following BEST defines Segregation?

a)

no separation of people by race or ethnicity

b)

separation of people by race or ethnicity

c)

The act of disliking someone based on race or ethnicity

9.

The court case Brown v Board of Education changed...

a)

All American citizens could use the same transportation

b)

Separate but equal schools was not allowed

c)

Separate but equal schoolswas now allowed

10.

Who is the man who broke the professional baseball color barrier on April 15th, 1947? (pictured above)

a)

Willie Mays

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Larry Doby

d)

Ray Campanella

11.

The man known for advocating for non-vilent protests, civil disobedience against unjust laws, and speeches of wanting ALL Americans to live together

a)

John F Kennedy

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Martin Luther King Jr

d)

Malcolm X

12.

What is the name for the laws that discriminated against people because of their race?

a)

Southern

b)

Slavery

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Integration

13.
These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High
a)
Elite Eight
b)
Little Rock Nine
c)
Arkansas Seven
d)
Final Four
14.
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
a)
Sweatt v. Painter
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
15.
Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?
a)
Charlayne Hunter
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Rebecca L. Felton
16.

Which Civil Rights leader also became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

a)

W.E.B Du Bois

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Rosa Parks