WorksheetsMagazine 35: Civil Rights Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Name:
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2.
The protections and privileges guaranteed by law to citizens of a country.
a)
Civil Rights
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Integration
3.
A belief that people of one race are superior to the people of another.
a)
Segregation
b)
Integration
c)
Racism
4.
Bus trip taken by black and white volunteers to test a desegregation law.
a)
Brown V. Board of Education
b)
Civil Rights Movement
c)
Freedom Ride
5.
Laws that supported segregation and took away African Americans’ right to vote.
a)
Nonviolent Protests
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Civil Disobedience
6.
A policy of keeping people of different races separate.
a)
Integration
b)
Desegregation
c)
Segregation
7.
Dislike of certain people based on race, gender, or other characteristics.
a)
Racism
b)
Prejudice
c)
Nonviolent Protests
8.
Showing disapproval or resistance in a way that does not include violence.
a)
Nonviolent Protests
b)
Affirmative Action
c)
Civil Disobedience
9.
Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to go to jail.
a)
Nonviolent Protests
b)
Civil Rights
c)
Civil Disobedience
10.
Treating one group of people unfairly on the basis of race, gender, or some other factor.
a)
Discrimination
b)
Desegregation
c)
Segregation
11.
A Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in schools.
a)
Freedom Ride
b)
Civil Rights Movement
c)
Brown V. Board of Education
12.
A policy that calls on colleges and businesses to bring in qualified minority applicants.
a)
Affirmative Action
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Discrimination
13.
Bringing people of different groups together in society or in an organization.
a)
Segregation
b)
Racism
c)
Integration
14.
Ending the policy of keeping people of different races separate.
a)
Segregation
b)
Prejudice
c)
Desegregation
15.
Protests in the 1950s and 1960s against the unfair treatment of African Americans and other minorities.
a)
Civil Rights Movement
b)
Civil Disobediences
c)
Affirmative Action
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