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Worksheets4/25: Civil Rights & Chicano Movement Quiz
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What are civil rights?
Legal and political rights enjoyed by the inhabitants of a country.
Rights only for minorities.
Rights that people who are reserved for politicians
What did the 14th amendment grant African American citizens?
Ended slavery
Gave them the right to vote
Granted them citizenship
Plessy v. Ferguson was a supreme court case that established which type of facilities?
Equal Facilities
Segregated Facilities
Plessy v. Ferguson's slogan was "separate but equal." However, how did facilities remain unequal?
Wealthy people were allowed to use better facilities than those with different economic status
Those who had ties to socially successful people could use better resources
People of color could not use the same facilities such as bathrooms, theaters, and cars as white people
How were African Americans disadvantaged when it came to society?
Economically
Socially
Politically
All of the Above
The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned
segregation in public schools.
schools hiring white teachers only.
segregation at school buses.
elite affirmation on school admissions.
How did sit-ins signal a change in tactic for the civil rights movement?
Participants rejected the philosophy of nonviolence.
Sit-ins represented an acceleration of desegregation efforts.
Participants first got approval from white business owners before staging sit-ins.
Sit-ins were primarily led by senior leaders of the civil rights movement.
How did the NAACP mainly fight segregation?
by encouraging violent uprisings
by establishing African American schools
by making threats against business owners
by suing to overturn segregation laws
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?
She just didn't think of the consequences
So the world could see what happened to Emmitt
For the publicity $$$
What did the arrest of Rosa Parks lead to?
school integration
boycott of city buses
riots in Birmingham
civil rights movement
The Woolworth’s Sit-In movement aimed to challenge:
Voting restrictions
Segregation in public accommodations
Housing discrimination
Unequal pay in the workforce
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education stated that:
Segregation in schools was constitutional if facilities were equal
Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
Private schools could not discriminate based on race
Only colleges and universities had to integrate
This amendment outlawed slavery.
14th
15th
13th
This president signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
Why was the Bracero Program created?
It was created to bring people from Mexico to do farm work
It was created to provide high paying jobs
It was created to start strikes
It was created to start unions
In addition to Cesar Chavez, who also was a leader in the United Farm Workers?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dolores Huerta
Yesenia Sandoval
Armando Salazar
Which group is seen here?
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
The Brown Berets
The United Farm Workers
The NAACP
What happened after the Mexican-American War?
Mexican-Americans were consistently treated fairly
Mexican-Americans often faced discrimination
