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WorksheetsEyes on the Prize Episodes 1 - 6 Test Study Guide
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 2hrs 23mins
Who was the main leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
John Lewis
In what year was the Civil Rights Act signed into law?
1954
1964
1965
1972
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution was enforced by the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
What was the main goal of the Freedom Rides?
To desegregate public buses in Montgomery
To test Supreme Court rulings on interstate bus desegregation
To register African American voters in the South
To protest the Vietnam War
Who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the bus boycott?
Coretta Scott King
Rosa Parks
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
Which U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Which organization was most involved in organizing the Freedom Rides?
NAACP
SCLC
CORE
SNCC
What was the main purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
To end segregation in schools
To prohibit discrimination in voting
To desegregate public transportation
To provide equal employment opportunities
Which city was the starting point of the Bus Boycott?
Birmingham
Selma
Montgomery
Atlanta
Which famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver during the March on Washington?
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
"I Have a Dream"
"The Ballot or the Bullet"
"Ain't I a Woman?"
Explain how the Montgomery Bus Boycott contributed to the Civil Rights Movement.
It led to the immediate end of all segregation in the South.
It demonstrated the power of nonviolent protest and inspired further actions.
It resulted in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
It caused the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be repealed.
How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 impact public accommodations?
It allowed states to decide on segregation.
It banned segregation in hotels, restaurants, and theaters.
It only applied to schools.
It had no effect on public accommodations.
Why were the Freedom Riders met with violence in the South?
They were protesting the Vietnam War.
They challenged local laws that ignored federal desegregation rulings.
They were trying to register voters.
They were supporting segregation.
What was a major effect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Southern states?
It increased African American voter registration.
It decreased voter turnout.
It ended all forms of discrimination in employment.
It led to the repeal of the 15th Amendment.
How did Martin Luther King Jr. advocate for change during the Civil Rights Movement?
Through violent protests
Through nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience
By running for political office
By supporting segregation
Describe the relationship between the Freedom Rides and the Supreme Court decisions on segregation.
The Freedom Rides ignored Supreme Court decisions.
The Freedom Rides tested whether Southern states were following Supreme Court rulings on desegregation.
The Supreme Court supported segregation during the Freedom Rides.
The Freedom Rides were unrelated to Supreme Court decisions.
In what way did the Montgomery Bus Boycott influence later civil rights actions?
It discouraged further protests.
It showed that economic pressure could be effective in fighting segregation.
It led to the end of the Civil Rights Movement.
It resulted in the immediate passage of the Voting Rights Act.
How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 address employment discrimination?
It required all businesses to hire only African Americans.
It banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
It allowed discrimination in private businesses.
It only applied to government jobs.
Why was the Voting Rights Act of 1965 necessary even after the 15th Amendment?
The 15th Amendment had been repealed.
Southern states used tactics like literacy tests to prevent African Americans from voting.
The Voting Rights Act was unrelated to voting.
The 15th Amendment only applied to women.
What strategy did Martin Luther King Jr. use to gain national attention for civil rights issues?
Armed resistance
Organizing large, peaceful demonstrations and marches
Secret meetings
Political lobbying only
Analyze the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on the national civil rights agenda.
It had little effect outside Montgomery.
It brought national attention to segregation and inspired similar protests across the country.
It led to the end of the NAACP.
It caused the Supreme Court to overturn the Civil Rights Act.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in ending segregation in the United States.
It was completely ineffective.
It was effective in ending legal segregation, but social and economic inequalities persisted.
It only applied to the North.
It led to increased segregation.
Assess the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the context of American democracy.
It had no impact on democracy.
It was significant because it protected the right to vote for all citizens, strengthening democracy.
It only affected presidential elections.
It limited voting rights.
Compare the goals and methods of the Freedom Riders to those of other civil rights activists.
The Freedom Riders used violence, while others did not.
Both sought to end segregation, but the Freedom Riders specifically targeted interstate travel using nonviolent direct action.
The Freedom Riders focused on economic issues.
Other activists did not use nonviolent methods.
Interpret the influence of Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy on the broader Civil Rights Movement.
His philosophy was ignored by most activists.
His commitment to nonviolence became a guiding principle for many civil rights campaigns.
He advocated for violent resistance.
His philosophy only applied to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Analyze how the Freedom Rides challenged federal and state authority in the South.
They supported state laws over federal laws.
They exposed the failure of Southern states to enforce federal desegregation laws, prompting federal intervention.
They had no impact on authority.
They only affected local governments.
Evaluate the long-term effects of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on civil rights legislation.
It had no long-term effects.
It set a precedent for future civil rights actions and influenced later legislation like the Civil Rights Act.
It led to the repeal of civil rights laws.
It only affected Montgomery.
Assess the role of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in shaping modern American society.
It had no role in modern society.
It laid the foundation for ongoing efforts toward equality and influenced later anti-discrimination laws.
It only affected the 1960s.
It increased segregation.
Discuss the challenges faced by activists during the Freedom Rides and how they overcame them.
They faced no challenges.
They faced violence and arrests but persisted through nonviolent resistance and federal support.
They used violence to overcome challenges.
They gave up after the first attack.
Interpret the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and American history.
His legacy is limited to the 1960s.
He is remembered as a symbol of nonviolent protest and a key figure in advancing civil rights and social justice in America.
He is only known for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
His legacy is not significant.
Supreme Court decision that unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Black v. Board of Education
Marshall v. Board of Education
Kansas v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
As the executive director of the SCLC, she urged student leaders who had encouraged sit-ins to create their own organization, what became the Student Nonviolent Cooperating Committee.
Rosa Parks
Ella Baker
Ruby Bridges
Septima Clark
First black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South, she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, LA in 1960.
Ruby Washington
Ruby Ridges
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Wright
Trinidadian-American civil rights activist known for leading the SNCC and for the use of the term "Black Power."
James Baldwin
John Lewis
Stokely Carmichael
H. Rap Brown
Police official in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. His officers' use of excessive force against peaceful civil rights marchers captured on live television in 1963 brought heightened national attention to the issue, and helped gain support for civil right legislation.
Chuck Connor
Orval Faubus
Bull Connor
Orval Connor
A civil rights leader and a secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, who was assassinated outside his home in 1963 only hours after President Kennedy delivered a speech promoting civil rights and his support for integration.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Medgar Evers
Andrew Young
John Lewis
A civil rights leader, he helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and would later help initiate the Freedom Rides in 1961 to desegregate interstate buses.
Medgar Evers
Fannie Lou Hamer
James Farmer
Stokely Carmichael
A SNCC organizer and former sharecropper who had been evicted from her farm after registering to vote & thrown in jail for urging other African Americans to register to vote. She helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party & challenged the legality of the segregated Democratic Party at the Democratic Convention in 1964.
Rosa Parks
Septima Clark
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
A student leader of SNCC, he was educated at American Baptist College in Nashville and helped organize sit-ins in that city in 1960, spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, and in 1965 was brutalized by state police during a march in Selma, AL broadcast live on national television.
John Marshall
John Lewis
John Davis
John Young
Civil rights activist whose application and attempt to enroll at the University of Mississippi caused a deadly riot in 1963 that required the intervention of thousands of federal law enforcement officers and active-duty soldiers.
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
Robert Moses
A. Philip Randolph
A black student activist who became very involved in the civil rights movement, including the SCLC and the founding of SNCC. She led the sit-in movement in Nashville from February 1960, was involved in planning the Freedom Rides in 1961 and took over when CORE (who had originally organized the rides) bailed after the riders encountered severe violence. She also helped organize the voting movement in Selma, Alabama.
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
Bessie Smith
Diane Nash
He was one of Dr. King's closest aids, though most of his involvement in the movement was kept subdued because of an earlier morals arrest and supposed homosexuality. He was very involved in the planning of the March on Washington (1963) and introduced King to the ideas of Ghandi.
Ralph Abernathy
Bayard Rustin
Andrew Young
John Lewis
Alabama governor best known for his pro-segregation attitudes during the Civil Rights Movement. He's well known for declaring "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Bull Connor
George Wallace
Lydon B. Johnson
Earl Warren
This legislation made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal, banned discrimination in public accommodations, prohibited discrimination in any federally assisted program, and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. It enlarged federal powers to protect voting rights and to speed school desegregation, and in conjunction with the VRA, it helped to give African-Americans equality on paper, and more federally-protected power so that social equality was a more realistic goal.
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act 0f 1960
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This legislation invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, the legislation had the effect of increasing jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black communities, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap.
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Founded in 1942, it was an interracial group organized by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities. It's best known for its "freedom rides," bus journeys challenging racial segregation in the South in 1961 that came under violent attack in Alabama. Nashville sit-in leader Diane Nash stepped in to lead the freedom rides after the violence.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
National Association of Colored People (NAACP)
1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance with a Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses. Participants faced violent assaults at multiple stops along the campaign.
Freedom Summer
Freedom Ride
Selma to Montgomery March
Sit-Ins
A 1964 project organized by SNCC activist Bob Moses that saw civil rights activists register black voters in Mississippi, educate black voters about electoral processes and civics, and promote the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge to the all-white Democratic Mississippi delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Three activists - James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman - were abducted by members of the KKK while investigating a church burning in Philadelphia, MS. They were murdered and their bodies buried in an earthen dam.
Freedom Ride
Freedom Summer
Freedom Spring
Freedom Fall
(2017)What was the goal of the protests depicted on this map?
To pressure Congress to prohibit discrimination against disabled citizens
To demonstrate the economic impact of discriminatory practices on interstate transportation
To challenge the federal government to enforce Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation
To persuade states to abandon discriminatory voter-registration procedures
(2016)How did the event described by Rosa Parks in this excerpt affect the Civil Rights movement?
It changed the way police arrested public protesters.
It resulted in a bus boycott that lasted more than a year.
It led to an increase in the number of registered voters in southern states.
It prompted the government to station the National Guard in southern states.
A new tactic pioneered during the sit-in protests that began in Greensboro and Nashville in 1960 of refusing to leave incarceration by sit-in protesters. By filling jail cells, police officials would run out of space to hold prisoners, this become known as what " (a) ."
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 16, 1963, and addressed to white clergymen who had criticized his activism, this statement defended the nonviolent protests that King participated in for the fight against racial injustice. He had been arrested taking part in a nonviolent march against segregation in Birmingham, and he expressed disappointed more Christians didn't speak out against racism.
Letter from a Atlanta Jail
Letter from a Selma Jail
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Letter from a Montgomery Jail
A 1963 demonstration and rally in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights. Its participants organized to show support for a Civil Rights bill then under debate in Congress. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech at this event.
March for Justice
Million Man March
March on Birmingham
March on Washington
A separate Democratic delegation, launched as a result of a SNCC-led voter registration campaign during Freedom Summer, that challenged the right of the regular, all-white delegation to represent Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, NJ. One of its founders, Fannie Lou Hamer, gave stirring testimony during the convention about violent police brutality she experienced for registering herself and others to vote in Mississippi.
Mississippi Freedom Party (MFP)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
Freedom Mississippi Democratic Party (FMDP)
Mississippi Black Freedom Democratic Party (MBFDP)
A 54-mile march in 1965 to support black voter registration and a memorial to activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, murdered in February 1965 by a white police officer in Marion, AL. Despite attacks from police, notably the Bloody Sunday attack on marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge broadcast live on national television, and interference from Alabama Governor George Wallace, participants ultimately reached Montgomery. President Johnson addressed the nation on national television in support of marchers.
March on Washington
Selma to Montgomery March
Birmingham to Montgomery March
Selma to Birmingham March
The "Little Rock Nine" were a group of African American students who, in 1957, attempted to integrate which previously all-white institution?
The University of Mississippi
Central High School in Little Rock, AR
The bus system in Montgomery, AL
The University of Alabama
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, did all of the following except:
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Barred unequal application of voter registration requirements.
Ended segregation in public places.
Eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests for voting.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to accomplish which of the following?
Prohibit discrimination in housing.
End segregation in public schools.
Outlaw discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests.
Provide federal funding for civil rights organizations.
Which event, known for its extreme violence against civil rights protesters by state and local authorities, was a key factor in building support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The Watts Riots
The Birmingham Campaign
Bloody Sunday in Selma
The March on Washington
Before becoming the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall gained prominence for his legal work, most notably his victory in which landmark case?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Gideon v. Wainwright
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Why did racist terrorists target so many of the African American Churches for bombing and arson attacks?
The African American churches often served as a meeting places for civil rights leaders to organize protests against segregation and racist practices. Many of the Civil Right Movement's leaders were pastors.
The white churches wanted to become meeting places for civil rights leaders to organize protests against segregation and racist practices. They wanted to encourage African Americans to join their congregations by any means necessary.
The African American churches often served as a meeting places for terrorists to plan riots and plot the violent overthrow of the US Government. Many of the Civil Right Movement's leaders were communists. The Klu Klux Klansmen were trying to protect their country.
The African American churches often served as a meeting places for white civil rights leaders from the North to organize protests against segregation and racist practices. Many of the Northern Civil Right Movement's leaders wanted revenge for the Civil War.
In 1963, what was Birmingham Alabama's nickname? Why?
Because the Boeing Aircraft Company's Birmingham factory built B-52 jets there. The nickname was "Bomberham." The B-52 was the US Air Force's most effective heavy bomber in 1963... and 55 years later, it still is!
Birmingham was named after Reggie Birmingham, a young man who mistakenly bombed the wrong place in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 during the Little Rock Nine incident.
Because racists were terrorizing African American homes and churches with homemade bombs so often, the city was nicknamed "Bombingham"
Birmingham was nicknamed the "Iron City" because so many Civil Rights workers were being arrested and put behind "iron bars' in the cit's jail.
What was the primary reason for involving children in the Birmingham demonstrations?
Children were not burdened with economic responsibilities.
Children had more free time than adults.
Children were more influenced by leaders.
Children were more passionate about Civil Rights.
Why was the Black vote central to Mississippi's struggle for power?
Blacks were the majority in the state.
Blacks outnumbered whites in some counties four to one.
Black had more political influence.
Blacks had better access to education.
What was the significance of Emmett Till's murder in the context of the Civil Rights Movement?
It ended all forms of segregation in Mississippi.
It resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
It brought national and international attention to racial violence in the United States, sparking increased activism for civil rights.
It led to the immediate desegregation of schools in the South.
How did the outcome of the trial for Emmett Till's accused killers impact public opinion?
The trial was never held, so there was little public reaction.
The acquittal outraged many Americans and highlighted the injustice of the legal system in the South.
The accused were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, restoring faith in the justice system.
The outcome led to the immediate end of lynching in the United States.
Why did Emmett Till's mother insist on an open-casket funeral for her son?
She wanted the world to see the brutality of his murder and the reality of racial violence.
She was following a family tradition.
She believed it would help raise money for the family.
She wanted to keep the funeral private for family only.
How did the sit-in movement influence other forms of protest during the Civil Rights Movement?
It focused only on legal challenges in court.
It inspired more nonviolent direct action campaigns, such as Freedom Rides and marches.
It led to violent uprisings.
It discouraged further activism.
The Civil Rights Movement is called the "_______________" because it was a renewed, federal effort to enforce the promises of equality and civil rights for African Americans made after the Civil War (1865-1877) that were later undermined by Jim Crow laws and systemic discrimination.
2nd Revolution
2nd Reconstruction
2nd Redirection
2nd Emancipation
