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African American Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who gained voting rights with the passing of the 15th Amendment?

a)

Native Americans

b)

Women

c)

African Americans

d)

Unicorns

2.

Which court case banned the segregation of public schools?

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Voting Rights Act

d)

Brown v. Board of Education

3.

What were the impacts of the literacy tests and poll taxes?

a)

Literacy tests and poll taxes made it easier for the poor and less educated to vote.

b)

Literacy tests and poll taxes made it more difficult for African Americans as well as other people such as the poor to vote.

c)

Literacy tests and poll taxes made it more difficult for African Americans to own land.

d)

Literacy tests and poll taxes made segregation illegal.

4.

Which amendment said that all people born in the U.S. are considered citizens AND that everyone has equal protection under the law?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

None of these

5.

Which of the following are ways that citizens can solve community issues? Select the THREE correct answers.

a)

Peaceful protests

b)

By paying taxes

c)

Boycotting

d)

Voting for your leaders

6.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

a)

Anti-Immigration Movement

b)

Free Silver Movement

c)

Urban Renewal Movement

d)

Civil  Rights Movement

7.

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

a)

Harriet B. Stowe

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Michelle Obama

d)

Coretta King

8.

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

a)

Allow children to work long hours in factories

b)

Segregate schools based on people’s skin color

c)

Pay black people less than white people for similar work

d)

Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

9.

Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

March on Washington

d)

March from  Selma to Montgomery

10.

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

a)

It gave free transportation to African Americans

b)

It segregated buses in America

c)

 It made Rosa Parks lots of money

d)

It helped de-segregate buses in America

11.

Martin Luther King Jr believed in

a)

Violent protests

b)

Really loud protests

c)

Non-violent protests

d)

Violence  when needed protests

12.

 Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.

a)

 Atlanta, GA

b)

Montgomery, AL

c)

Washington, D.C. 

d)

Savannah, GA

13.

Who was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

a)

A) Thurgood Marshall

b)

B) Clarence Thomas

c)

C) Sonia Sotomayor

d)

D) Ruth Bader Ginsburg

14.

What was the main goal of the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

A) To promote African American businesses

b)

B) To desegregate public transportation

c)

C) To support African American voting rights

d)

D) To end racial discrimination in housing

15.

Which event is considered the starting point of the modern Civil Rights Movement?

a)

A) The March on Washington

b)

B) The Selma to Montgomery March

c)

C) The Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

D) The Birmingham Campaign