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Worksheets50s and Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
The popularity of cars during the 50s led to....
Safety issues
Increase in wrecks
Rise of technology
Reliance on foreign oil
____________ jobs began a surge during the 1950s.
Government created jobs increased
White collar jobs
Fast food
Blue collar jobs
What happened during the 50s due to the increase in parties, drive-ins, & music/culture.
Beat movement
Baby boom
Increase suburbs
Civil Rights movement
What was the original purpose of the interstate highway system?
To keep people off back roads
For fast food and hotels
Family vacations
Military travel stemming back from WWII
Jonas Salk developed which vaccine?
Covid
Flu
Small pox
Polio
What increased during the 50s?
Consumerism
Commercials
Tv shows, rock n roll
Political campaigns on tv
"Beatniks" were known to hang where?
Concert halls
Sports games
Coffee houses
Country clubs
What was controversial about Elvis and his performances?
He did not like his manager
He appealed to all people
He played gospel music
He moved suggestively
Which president wanted to get to the moon first?
Eisenhower
JFK
Nixon
Reagan
This decision outlawed segregation in schools & overturned Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board
Texas v Johnson
Roe v Wade
Schenck vs US
MLK followed what type of policy when he helped lead the civil rights movement?
violence
segregationist
rainbow coalition
nonviolence
What did Malcolm X mean by any means necessary?
If necessary, violence could be used to make change
If necessary, African Americans could leave the country
If necessary, I will step down as a civil rights leaders
If necessary, African Americans should vote the same
Who was the Governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock Nine?
George Wallace
Strom Thurmond
Bull Conner
Orvall Faubus
Clinton High School in TN is important bc it....
Led sit ins
Desegregated students
Recovered from KKK attacks
Organized freedom rides
Where was MLK assassinated?
Montgomery
Selma
Memphis
Little Rock
The intent of passing the civil rights legislation in 1964, 1965, & 1968 was to...
End discrimination
Force changes to welfare and social security
Stop gerrymandering
affirmative action
The Women's feminist movement wanted to achieve what?
Stop stay at home moms
Healthcare
Equal rights and pay
Voting rights
The goal of the Chicano movement led by Cesar Chavez was to...
Fix working conditions
Fix immigration policies
Help with segregation
Equal education
