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4/25: Civil Rights & Chicano Movement Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are civil rights?

a)

Legal and political rights enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country.

b)

Rights only for minorities.

c)

Rights that people who are reserved for politicians

2.

What did the 14th amendment grant African American citizens?

a)

Ended slavery

b)

Gave them the right to vote

c)

Granted them citizenship

3.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a supreme court case that established which type of facilities?

a)

Equal Facilities

b)

Segregated Facilities

4.

Plessy v. Ferguson's slogan was "separate but equal." However, how did facilities remain unequal?

a)

Wealthy people were allowed to use better facilities than those with different economic status

b)

Those who had ties to socially successful people could use better resources

c)

People of color could not use the same facilities such as bathrooms, theaters, and cars as white people

5.

How were African Americans disadvantaged when it came to society?

a)

Economically

b)

Socially

c)

Politically

d)

All of the Above

6.

The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned

a)

segregation in public schools.

b)

schools hiring white teachers only.

c)

segregation at school buses.

d)

elite affirmation on school admissions.

7.

How did sit-ins signal a change in tactic for the civil rights movement?

a)

Participants rejected the philosophy of nonviolence.

b)

Sit-ins represented an acceleration of desegregation efforts.

c)

Participants first got approval from white business owners before staging sit-ins.

d)

Sit-ins were primarily led by senior leaders of the civil rights movement.

8.

How did the NAACP mainly fight segregation?

a)

by encouraging violent uprisings

b)

by establishing African American schools

c)

by making threats against business owners

d)

by suing to overturn segregation laws

9.

Why did Emmitt Till's mother make her son's funeral an open-casket one and allow photographers to take pictures of the body, despite the fact that it was horribly maimed?

a)

She just didn't think of the consequences

b)

So the world could see what happened to Emmitt

c)

For the publicity $$$

10.

What did the arrest of Rosa Parks lead to?

a)

school integration

b)

boycott of city buses

c)

riots in Birmingham

d)

civil rights movement

11.

The Woolworth’s Sit-In movement aimed to challenge:

a)

Voting restrictions

b)

Segregation in public accommodations

c)

Housing discrimination

d)

Unequal pay in the workforce

12.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education stated that:

a)

Segregation in schools was constitutional if facilities were equal

b)

Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

c)

Private schools could not discriminate based on race

d)

Only colleges and universities had to integrate

13.

This amendment outlawed slavery.

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

13th

14.

This president signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Harry S. Truman

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

15.

Why was the Bracero Program created?

a)

It was created to bring people from Mexico to do farm work

b)

It was created to provide high paying jobs

c)

It was created to start strikes

d)

It was created to start unions

16.

In addition to Cesar Chavez, who also was a leader in the United Farm Workers?

a)
  1. Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Dolores Huerta

c)

Yesenia Sandoval

d)

Armando Salazar

17.

Which group is seen here?

a)

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

b)

The Brown Berets

c)

The United Farm Workers

d)

The NAACP

18.

What happened after the Mexican-American War?

a)

Mexican-Americans were consistently treated fairly

b)

Mexican-Americans often faced discrimination