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WorksheetsWeek 16 Quizizz HW: Civil Rights Era (VUS.13)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson said public schools must desegregate?
Brown V. Board of Education
Scot v. Sanford
McCulloch v. Maryland
Marbury v. Madison
What was Virginia's response to the Brown v. Board ruling?
Acceptance
Massive Resistance
FEMA
Civil War
What speech was given at the 1963 March on Washington that led to national support for civil rights?
The Gettysburg Address
I Have a Dream
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
The Berlin Wall Speech
What president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bill Clinton
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did what? (Pick all that apply)
Prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin
Created the NAACP
Desegregated public accommodations
Eliminated the poll tax
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did what? (Pick all that apply)
Outlawed literacy tests
Sent federal registrars to the south
Outlawed the segregation of public accommodations
Legalized acts of civil disobedience
Which of the following are examples of the expansion of economic prosperity after WWII?
Implementation of the GI Bill
Interstate Highway System
Rise of the Middle Class
Growth of suburban America
Which president waged a "War on Poverty" as part of his "Great Society" initiative?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
The practice of Massive Resistance led to all of the following EXCEPT --
establishment of private academies
immediate integration
closing of some public schools
white flight from urban schools systems
Match the following key people involved with the Brown v. Board of Education trial.
Student leader in Prince Edward County, VA
Barbara Johns
Lead attorney for the NAACP legal defense team
Thurgood Marshall
Lead attorney for the NAACP legal defense team in Virginia
Oliver Hill
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presiding over Brown v. Board
Earl Warren
Which of the following demonstrations was not an example of nonviolent, mass protests?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Demonstrations led by armed members of the Black Panther Party
Sit-ins at Woolworth's lunch counter
A march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
Which act of legislation prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities?
The Butler Act of 1925
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883
The brutal lynching of this individual made international news and pushed for civil rights
Emmett Till
Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Which man, who served as a police commissioner in Alabama, was a strong supporter of segregation and was notorious for using police dogs and fire hoses to break up crowds during civil rights demonstrations during the 1960s
Labraham Lincoln
Frankin D. Roosevelt
Joseph McCarthy
Bull Connor
