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Civil Rights Movement Day 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling allow?

a)

"Separate but equal" facilities

b)

Integration of public schools

c)

Abolition of segregation

d)

Universal suffrage

2.

Which Supreme Court case ended segregation in higher education at UT Law School?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Sweatt vs. Painter

d)

Roe v. Wade

3.

What role did Thurgood Marshall later achieve?

a)

First African-American President

b)

First African-American Supreme Court justice

c)

First African-American Senator

d)

First African-American Governor

4.

Which "key" Supreme Court case ruling made discrimination, based on race, illegal in public schools?

a)

Plessy v Fremont School District

b)

Timbs v Indiana Public Schools

c)

Solange v BCPS

d)

Brown v Board of Ed

5.

________ reversed the policy established by ________.

a)

The NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute

b)

Brown v. Board of Education, Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield

6.

Plessy v. Ferguson

a)

a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality

b)

to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

c)

Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

d)

Group formed by W. E. B. DuBois and others in 1909 to pursue the goals of economic, educational, and social equality for African Americans; inspired by the Niagara Movement

7.

Match the following amendments.

a)

13th

1.

Abolished slavery

b)

14th

2.

Granted citizenship to all persons

c)

15th

3.

Right to vote for all citizens

d)

19th

4.

Women's suffrage

e)

1st

5.

Freedom of speech

8.

What President established Executive order 9981 which integrated the armed forces in 1948

a)

President Truman

b)

President John F. Kennedy

c)

President Eisenhower

d)

President LBJ

9.

President​ (a)   is referred to as Two-Man because of the​ (b)   in which he gave financial and military aid to ​ Greece and ​ (c)   .

Choose from the below words
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Turkey
Germany
Austria-Hungary
10.

President ​ (a)   is also known as True-Man because he ordered​ (b)   which ​ (c)   the military, also has a combined presidential inauguration, and pushed for ​ (d)   .

Choose from the below words
Truman
Executive Order 9981
Roosevelt
Executive Order 9066
desegregated
segregated
Civil Rights
Moral Rights