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Civil Rights Era Test

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
the efforts of African Americans to win equal rights, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s
a)
Civil Rights Movement
b)

affirmative actions

c)

civil disobedience

d)

integration

2.
an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women
a)
affirmative action
b)

Civil Rights movement

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Equal Rights Amendment

3.
A refusal to buy or use certain goods and services.
a)
boycott
b)

black codes

c)

Jim Crow laws

d)

integration

4.
legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
a)
segregation
b)

integration

c)

desegregation

d)

pacifism

5.
the refusal to obey unjust laws using non-violent means
a)
civil disobedience
b)

boycott

c)

sit-in

d)

freedom ride

6.
mixing of different racial or ethnic groups
a)
integration
b)

segregation

c)

civil rights

d)

affirmative action

7.
a person who moves from one region to another to find work
a)
migrant worker
b)

labor union

c)

hobo

d)

freedom rider

8.
a form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave
a)
sit in
b)

freedom ride

c)

boycott

d)

injunction

9.
in two languages
a)
bilingual
b)

multilingual

c)

biracial

d)

mixed race

10.
What event ended the Reconstruction Era and led to the oppression of African-Americans in the south?
a)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
b)
The removal of federal troops after the election of President Hayes
c)
The Emancipation Proclamation
d)
The Black Codes
11.
What 1896 Supreme Court decision declared separate but equal (segregation) to be constitutional?
a)
Plessy v Ferguson
b)
Brown v Board of Education
c)
Dred Scot v Sandford
d)
Korematsu v United States
12.
The organization was formed in 1909 to advance Civil Rights for African Americans (still exists today)
a)
Congress on Racial Equality CORE
b)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC
c)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC
d)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) NAACP
13.
What was the purpose of Executive Order 9981, signed by President Truman in 1948?
a)
Operation Overlord
b)
Desegregate the military
c)
Admit students to the University of Mississippi
d)
Desegregate public schools
14.
What was Thurgood Marshall’s goal in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
a)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
b)
to end that segregation in public education
c)
to allow states to decide whether to segregate schools
d)
to force states to fund schools for Mexican Americans equally
15.
Which of the following people would most likely resist the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
a)
an African American student in the North
b)
an African American civil rights activist
c)
a southern white segregationist
d)
a white volunteer for the NAACP
16.
How did Rosa Park’s actions redirect the tactics of the civil rights movement?
a)
They encouraged violent protests in the South.
b)
They inspired a mass movement of direct action to create political change.
c)
They showed that individual acts of protest could attract the attention of the media.
d)
They revealed that the integration of transportation was the movement’s main goal.
17.
What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a)
The civil rights movement lost momentum
b)
The Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional
c)
The KKK bombed the movement headquarters
d)
African Americans gained voting rights
18.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established after the success of the bus boycott. The SCLC and the SNCC promoted the use of what type of protest?
a)
Non-violent protest
b)
Radical protest
c)
Pacifism
d)
Direct engagement
19.
Nine black students had to be protected by federal troops in ____, Arkansas when they attempted to attend Central High School.
a)
Montgomery
b)
Birmingham
c)
Washington, D.C.
d)
Little Rock
20.
College students used a non-violent protest tactic called ____, to desegregate whites-only lunch counters.
a)
Strikes
b)
Sit-ins
c)
Marches
d)
Riots
21.
CORE and SNCC members took ____________ on the interstate bus systems to challenge the non-enforcement of segregation laws.
a)
Sit-ins
b)
Freedom rides
c)
Freedom summer
d)
March on Washington
22.
In August 1963, thousands of people gathered at the _______ in the U. S. capital in support of the Civil Rights bill.
a)
Birmingham Campaign
b)
March on Washington
c)
Freedom Summer
d)
Montgomery bus boycott
23.
President ___________ proposed a civil rights bill to end segregation to Congress, but was assassinated before it was passed.
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Johnson
c)
Kennedy
d)
Nixon
24.
How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 benefit women in particular?
a)
It allowed women to be elected to government positions.
b)
It required employers to pay men and women equally.
c)
It banned gender discrimination in hiring.
d)
It banned all discrimination based on gender.
25.
What was the purpose of Freedom Summer in 1964?
a)
To register African American voters
b)
To check and see if segregation laws were being enforced
c)
To support the civil rights bill
d)
To investigate the murder of Emmett Till
26.
The first voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama became known as _________ when marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were beaten back by the police.
a)
Freedom Summer
b)
Bloody Sunday
c)
Jim Crow
d)
Children's crusade
27.
What group fought for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment?
a)
CORE
b)
NOW
c)
SNCC
d)
UFW
28.
Which of the following primarily accounts for the spike in Cuban immigration in the early 1960s?
a)
ongoing civil war in Cuba
b)
changes in U.S. immigration laws
c)
Communist takeover of the Cuban government
d)
rapid growth in Cuban wealth and mobility
29.
For which civil rights movement is Wounded Knee significant?
a)
American Indian rights
b)
Chicano rights
c)
women’s rights
d)
gay rights
30.

The Supreme Court ruling that it was illegal to excluded Mexican Americans from

a)
Hernandez v. Texas
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Loving v. Virginia
31.

1963 law that required both men and women to receive equal pay for equal work

a)

Equal Pay Act

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Equal Rights Amendment

d)

NOW

32.

segregation laws in the South

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Black Codes

d)

boycott

33.

Leader of the Civil Rights movement whose death brought an end to the era

a)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Emmett Till

c)

Medgar Evers

d)

Stockley Carmichael

34.

Overturned Dred Scot, defined citizenship

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

24th Amendment

35.

abolished slavery in the United States

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

24th Amendment

36.

gave African American men the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

24th Amendment

37.

Banned the use of poll taxes

a)

15th Amendment

b)

24th Amendment

c)

Equal Rights Amendment

d)

13th Amendment

38.

Ban discrimination based on gender, NOT ratified

a)

15th Amendment

b)

24th Amendment

c)

Equal Rights Amendment

d)

NOW

39.

Made segregation illegal in all public facilities

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Brown V Board of Education

d)

Plessy v Ferguson

40.

Prohibited the use of literacy tests as voting requirements

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

24th Amendment

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1975

d)

Grandfather clause

41.

Act made it illegal to discriminate when selling, buying, or renting housing

a)

Fair Housing Act of 1968

b)

Equal Pay Act

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Redlining

42.

Required bilingual elections

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1975

b)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

c)

Hernandez v Texas

d)

Bilingual Education Act

43.

Promoted bilingual program in public schools

a)

Bilingual Education Act

b)

Voting Rights Act of 1975

c)

Hernandez v Texas

d)

Brown v Board of Education

44.

Brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman

a)

Emmett Till

b)

James Meredith

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Medgar Evers

45.

First African American student at the University of Mississippi

a)

James Meredith

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Emmett Till

d)

Medgar Evars

46.

He organized a union of mostly-Latino migrant farm workers.

a)

Cesar Chavez

b)

Medgar Evers

c)

Gandhi

d)

James Meredith

47.

Black Power leader who advocated the use of violence and did not agree with the methods of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

c)

Medgar Evars

d)

John Lewis

48.

Civil Rights leader in India whose use of non-violence inspired the civil rights movement

a)

Gandhi

b)

Cesar Chavez

c)

Kwame Raoul

d)

Rosa Parks

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