WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement Review (4.4)
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
African Americans were denied equal protection of the law by __________.
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Jim Crow laws
c)
affirmative action
d)
the fourteenth amendment
2.
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court found that segregated schools __________.
a)
could be made equal
b)
violated equal protection
c)
violated due process
d)
were separate but equal
3.
This is the term for unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or ethnicity.
a)
discrimination
b)
freedom
c)
equality
d)
hatred
4.
______ was a six-year-old African American child who became the first to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960.
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Ruby Bridges
c)
Daisy Bates
5.
Martin Luther King first emerged as a nationally-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement when he
a)
challenged the authority of the mayor in Little Rock, Arkansas
b)
led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
c)
led the protest march in Birmingham, Alabama
d)
gave his "I have a Dream Speech" in Washington D.C.
6.
Who was responsible for sparking the Montgomery bus boycott?
a)
Lyndon B. Johnson
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Martin Luther King
d)
Thurgood Marshall
7.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended discrimination in hiring workers.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
The number of African American voters in the South increased after __________.
a)
literacy requirements were banned
b)
Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed
c)
the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
9.
The Chicano Movement was formed to fight segregation against __________.
a)
Native Americans
b)
women
c)
Mexican Americans
d)
people with disabilities
10.
Affirmative action critics say that it __________.
a)
gives good students a chance to go to college
b)
is reverse discrimination
c)
may encourage segregation
d)
blocks women from getting good jobs
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