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Checkpoint 32: TN Contributes to the Civil Rights (5.50)

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was trained at the Highlander Folk School before refusing to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Emmett Till

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Rosa Parks

2.

What was unique about the Highlander Folk School during the Civil Rights era?

a)

White and Black students learned to work against segregation together.

b)

White and Black students learned to work in support of the First Amendment separately.

c)

White and Black students learned to work in support of the First Amendment together.

d)

White and Black students learned to work against segregation separately.

3.

Why are the Clinton Twelve famous?

a)

They were students who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

b)

They were students who integrated the first public school in Tennessee.

c)

They were students who lived in Tent City in Fayette County.

d)

They were students who refused to attend school until it was integrated.

4.

What action did the Clinton Twelve take to try to stay safe?

a)

They lived next to each other in Tent City.

b)

They attended training workshops at the Highlander Folk School.

c)

They walked to school together every day.

d)

They only went places where there were other African Americans.

5.

What was the original goal of the Highlander Folk School when it opened in the 1930s?

a)

to train factory workers

b)

to end racial segregation

c)

to organize the war effort

d)

to improve the lives of poor Southerners

6.

Why were some African Americans evicted from their homes in Fayette County during the 1950s?

a)

African Americans in the area voted in an election and local White people did not like it.

b)

African Americans who were evicted did not pay their mortgages or rent.

c)

African Americans who were evicted refused to buy food in local stores.

d)

African Americans in the area organized a tent city and local White people did not like it.

7.

Why did Tent City develop?

a)

A. African Americans in Fayette County wanted to protest Jim Crow laws.

b)

B. African Americans in Fayette County did not have enough money to find housing after being evicted from their homes.

c)

C. African Americans in Fayette County wanted to end school segregation.

d)

D. African Americans in Fayette County wanted to protest working conditions.

8.

What was the outcome of the Nashville sit-ins?

a)

Nashville businesses protested the sit-ins by closing their doors.

b)

Nashville businesses started serving African Americans at their lunch counters.

c)

Nashville schools forced students to end sit-ins and return to class.

d)

Nashville schools desegregated as a result of the sit-ins.

9.

to organize or prepare something, such as a group of people, for a purpose

a)

mobilize

b)

protest

c)

interfere

d)

integrate

10.

Choose the correct definition of sharecropper.

a)

a farmer who only grows crops and does not raise animals

b)

a farmer who lives on his or her own land  but rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land for someone else

c)

a farmer who sells a share of his or her crops and keeps the rest to feed his or her family

d)

a farmer who lives on land owned by someone else, rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land, and pays the landowner back with a large share of the harvest

11.

an official order issued by a legal authority

a)

interference

b)

register

c)

decree

d)

communication

12.

Choose the correct definition of unconstitutional.

a)

not written in a national or state constitution

b)

not prohibited in a national or state constitution

c)

not clear or understandable in a national or state constitution

d)

not legal or in accordance with a national or state constitution

13.

Choose the correct definition of civil rights.

a)

the requirements of citizens to serve in the military if called countries

b)

the recognition of citizens who were born in other

c)

the rights of citizens to have political and social freedom and equality

d)

the responsibilities of citizens to vote in elections and serve on juries