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Segregation

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What supreme court case ended segregation in the south by overturning separate yet equal policies.  

a)

tinker v Iowa

b)

Brown v board of education

c)

Roe v wade

d)

Dred scott

2.

What supreme court case established separate yet equal was legal  

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

tinker v iowa

c)

Marbury v madison

d)

Roe v wade

3.

What was the name for laws governing segregation in the southern united states 

(a)  

4.

What was the name for laws governing segregation in south Africa 

(a)  

5.

What is the name of the group of students that first integrated Arkansas schools 

a)

Ruby bridges

b)

Arkansas 8

c)

Little rock 9

d)

Feyettville 10

6.

What was the name of the Chicago boy killed in Mississippi. 

a)

Minnejean Brown

b)

Emmett Till

c)

Dred scott

7.

What was the first step in segregating both native south africans and later rwandan minorities 

a)

limiting access to food

b)

Forcing them to carry ID cards

c)

violent attacks

d)

Limiting the amount of children they could have

8.

Which of the following are ways the rights of black Americans were limited in the south

a)

pole taxes

b)

Segregated facilities

c)

Literacy tests

d)

All of the above

9.

What violent racial group carried out attacks on black Americans in the souther states 

a)

The NAACP

b)

The KKK

c)

The ACLU

d)

None of the above

10.

Which of the following best describes segregation?

a)

Students of all racial backgrounds attending the same school

b)

Baseball teams made up of white and African American players

c)

African American and white students sent to separate schools

d)

Everyone can use the same drinking fountains regardless of race

11.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the civil rights movement was calling attention to the problem of what?

a)

integration and socio-economic differences

b)

social class inequalities

c)

differing political views

d)

segregation and the broader issue of racism

12.

Racist laws and policies that treated African Americans as second-class citizens and separated African Americans and whites became known as what?

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Plessy v Ferguson Laws

c)

Abraham Lincoln Laws

d)

Eisenhower Laws

13.

What was the main purpose of the Jim Crow laws in the United States?

a)

To promote racial equality

b)

To enforce racial segregation

c)

To support civil rights movements

d)

To abolish slavery

14.

Which landmark legislation ended legal segregation in public places in the United States?

a)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

c)

The Fair Housing Act of 1968

d)

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

15.

Who was the prominent leader that delivered the 'I Have a Dream' speech advocating for the end of segregation?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Thurgood Marshall