WorksheetsAfrican American Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who gained voting rights with the passing of the 15th Amendment?
Native Americans
Women
African Americans
Unicorns
Which court case banned the segregation of public schools?
Civil Rights Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Voting Rights Act
Brown v. Board of Education
What were the impacts of the literacy tests and poll taxes?
Literacy tests and poll taxes made it easier for the poor and less educated to vote.
Literacy tests and poll taxes made it more difficult for African Americans as well as other people such as the poor to vote.
Literacy tests and poll taxes made it more difficult for African Americans to own land.
Literacy tests and poll taxes made segregation illegal.
Which amendment said that all people born in the U.S. are considered citizens AND that everyone has equal protection under the law?
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
None of these
Which of the following are ways that citizens can solve community issues? Select the THREE correct answers.
Peaceful protests
By paying taxes
Boycotting
Voting for your leaders
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
Anti-Immigration Movement
Free Silver Movement
Urban Renewal Movement
Civil Rights Movement
An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was
Harriet B. Stowe
Rosa Parks
Michelle Obama
Coretta King
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:
Allow children to work long hours in factories
Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
Pay black people less than white people for similar work
Return an escaped slave to his/her master
Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?
Freedom Rides
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
March from Selma to Montgomery
How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?
It gave free transportation to African Americans
It segregated buses in America
It made Rosa Parks lots of money
It helped de-segregate buses in America
Martin Luther King Jr believed in
Violent protests
Really loud protests
Non-violent protests
Violence when needed protests
Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.
Atlanta, GA
Montgomery, AL
Washington, D.C.
Savannah, GA
Who was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
A) Thurgood Marshall
B) Clarence Thomas
C) Sonia Sotomayor
D) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What was the main goal of the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement?
A) To promote African American businesses
B) To desegregate public transportation
C) To support African American voting rights
D) To end racial discrimination in housing
Which event is considered the starting point of the modern Civil Rights Movement?
A) The March on Washington
B) The Selma to Montgomery March
C) The Montgomery Bus Boycott
D) The Birmingham Campaign
