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WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
What was the main impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
It significantly increased voter registration and participation among African Americans in the South.
Which of the following two civil rights leaders used different tactics to support their goals?
W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X
How was the relationship between state and federal government impacted by the Civil Rights Movement?
Which of the following led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and testified about her experience registering to vote.
Which of the following organizations used non-violent methods to further their goals in the Civil Rights Movement? (Choose 3)
NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SNCC-Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What was Thurgood Marshall's role in the Civil Rights Movement?
Thurgood Marshall was a chief counsel for the NAACP and served as a lawyer for the Brown vs. Board of Ed. Case
Thurgood Marshall was a famous civil rights author and speaker who eventually moved to Africa.
Thurgood Marshall was a prominent civil rights activist in the 1980s.
What was the impact of the march on Selma?
The march was primarily a protest against the Vietnam War and the draft.
The march on Selma emphasized the importance of non-violent tactics and led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The federal government did which of the following to enforce desegregation in the South?
Federalized the national guard to enforced court rulings.
Ignored court rulings on desegregation and sent national guard troops to prevent African American students from entering schools.
What was the importance of Harry Truman's Executive Order 9981?
It established a new military branch to compete with the U.S.S.R's launch of Sputnik.
It increased funding for the U.S. Navy during Vietnam.
It mandated the desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces during the Korean War.
How did SNCC's sit-ins effect the civil rights movement?
SNCC's sit-ins encouraged more non-violent participation from young people.
Which of the following used a boycott to protest segregated public transportation?
Mississippi Freedom Summer
March on Selma
How did the Black Power movement change the the Civil Rights movement as a whole?
The Black Power movement created division around the issue of non-violence vs. self-defense.
non-violent direct action.
violent protest.
religious belief.
political discussions.
Which of the following were the Freedom Riders trying to desegregate?
Interstate bus travel
Who was responsible for integrating Ole Miss?
Medgar Evers
What tactics did Martin Luther King Jr. use for the March on Selma and the March on Washington?
Which of the following were used to prevent African Americans from voting in the South? (Choose 3)
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clauses
Literacy Test
SCLC
Which of the following ordered the Arkansas National Guard to maintain segregation in public schools?
Stokely Carmichael
Match the Civil Rights leader with the organization they worked with/for.
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Huey P. Newton
SNCC
Thurgood Marshall
SCLC
Martin Luther King Jr.
NAACP
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Black Panther Party
