Civil Rights Test 2
What do you know about this time period in US History?
- 1.Which of the following is an example of segregation?
- A.
Refusing to ride on city bus
- B.
Forcing African Americans to attend different schools other than whites
- C.
Taking lands from Native Americans
- D.
Leading a rally for African American voters
- 2.Rosa Parks protested the law that...
- A.
Prevented African Americans from riding the same buses
- B.
Prevented African Americans from riding city buses
- C.
Refused African Americans the right to attend school with white students
- D.
Required African Americans and whites to sit in separate sections of city buses
- 3.What was the main concept of the ruling of Plessy v. Fergsuon in 1896?
- A.
Separate but equal
- B.
Equality for all
- C.
Equality in education
- D.
Freedom for all
- 4.Poll taxes and literacy tests...
- A.
Kept many African Americans from voting
- B.
Encouraged civil rights leaders
- C.
Helped women to get the right to vote
- D.
Were approved by the Supreme Court
- 5.Martin Luther King Jr. gained national attention during what key event?
- A.
March on Washington
- B.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
- C.
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case
- D.
Greensboro Sit in
- 6.Freedom Summer was an effort to...
- A.
Invite women into the workforce and find jobs
- B.
Help Native Americans find work and better careers
- C.
Help African American voters in Southern states
- D.
Minorities in NC
- 7.Marches, sit-ins, and boycotts are examples of...
- A.
Civil rights
- B.
Massive resistance
- C.
Nonviolent forms of protest
- D.
Freedom events
- 8.After WWII, the Holocaust had drawn world wide attention to what horrors?
- A.
Racism
- B.
Segregation
- C.
Massive resistance
- D.
Violent protests
- 9.Most civil rights protests occurred in what location?
- A.
Washington DC
- B.
The Southern States
- C.
Voting polls
- D.
Supreme Court hearings
- 10.Four students went to a Greensboro lunch counter and demanded to be served at a white only lunch counter. What type of protest did they carry out?
- A.
Massive resistance
- B.
Boycott
- C.
Sit in
- D.
Freedom Ride
- 11.The 24th Amendment did which of the following?
- A.
Gave women the right to vote
- B.
Ordered the federal government to return all land back to Native Americans
- C.
Helped African Americans gain voting rights by outlawing poll taxes
- D.
Ordered schools to provide bilingual education
- 12.The event known as the "Little Rock Nine" - African American students were admitted to Central High School in Arkansas after...
- A.
The nine students held a sit in at the high school
- B.
Parents protested and took case to the local school board
- C.
President Eisenhower sent in National Guard troops in order to provide safe passage for students into the school
- D.
MLK protested the actions of the school
- 13.What was the main purpose of the March on Washington?
- A.
Protest for better jobs and rights
- B.
Protest for better education for all
- C.
Meeting of all the leaders of the movement and he gave a speech there
- D.
None of the above
- 14.The Civil Rights Act of 1964...
- A.
Organized voter drives to bring out the African American vote
- B.
Made segregation illegal in the US and forbid unequal treatment
- C.
Created a form of nonviolent resistance for the Greensboro sit in
- D.
Organized the Freedom Riders
- 15.What did some Americans conclude about race relations after the violence in Selma Alabama in 1965?
- A.
They were horrified at the violence that was being broadcast on national tv and realized that something needed to be done
- B.
They were aware of the violence and were still undecided what to do about civil rights
- C.
The protest had been a peaceful protest--- the attack on the protest group as they marched was violent and most were shocked by this event
- D.
Both and A and C
- 16.Which of the following would not be considered a "barrier breaker" for equality in the Civil Rights Era"?
- A.
Orval Faubus
- B.
Thurgood Marshall
- C.
Rosa Parks
- D.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 17.From whom did Martin Luther King Jr. get the idea of non violent resistance?
- A.
Rosa Parks
- B.
Winston Churchill
- C.
President Kennedy
- D.
Gandhi
- 18.What event began the Civil Rights Movement?
- A.
Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955
- B.
Brown v. Board of Education ruling by Supreme Court which began integration of US schools
- C.
Jim Crow laws passed in the South
- D.
Freedom Summer
- 19.What was the main purpose of the Jim Crow Laws in the South?
- A.
Segregation of public places
- B.
Integration of public places
- C.
Punishment of the South for Civil War
- D.
None of the above
- 20.Which of the following helped the American poor during the Civil Rights Movement?
- A.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
- B.
24th Amendment
- C.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
- D.
Murder case of Emmett Till
- 21.What was the decision of Swann v. Mecklenburg Board of Education?
- A.
Forced the Jim Crow Laws to break up in NC schools in 1951
- B.
Forces the integration of Charlotte schools by busing students to districts where they should be more balanced with integration mix of students
- C.
Busing students to all white schools was illegal
- D.
Busing students to African American schools was illegal
- 22.How did the Greensboro 4 impact the Civil Rights Movement?
- A.
Sit ins were eventually staged throughout the South helping to break up the Jim Crow Laws
- B.
Brought national attention to discrimination in the South
- C.
After discrimination was broken up, the African Americans had the ability to have equal purchasing power in the state/national econmoy
- D.
All of the Above
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