Explore key events and figures in the Civil Rights Movement during the Reconstruction era through this trivia quiz. Assess your knowledge on segregation laws, influential protests, and landmark legal decisions that shaped American civil rights.
Ended the Civil War
Ended slavery
Ended the spread of the Republican party
Ended the movement of Northerners into the Southern states
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Prevented African Americans from riding the same buses
Prevented African Americans from riding city buses
Refused African Americans the right to attend school with white students
Required African Americans and whites to sit in separate sections of city buses
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Organized voter drives to bring out the African American vote
Made segregation illegal in the US and forbid unequal treatment
Created a form of nonviolent resistance for the Greensboro sit in
Organized the Freedom Riders
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Kept many African Americans from voting
Encouraged civil rights leaders
Helped women to get the right to vote
Were approved by the Supreme Court
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Massive resistance
Boycott
Sit in
Freedom Ride
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Civil rights
Massive resistance
Nonviolent forms of protest
Freedom events
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Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Black Codes
All of the above
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Reorganizing
Refusing
Reuniting
Rebuilding
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Asked the Southern states to employ all African Americans
Asked the Southern states to give an education to all people living in their home state
Treated African Americans as second class citizens and placed restrictions on daily life
African Americans were given permission to move to the North to find jobs
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Amendment 1
Amendment 10
Amendment 15
Amendment 14
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The plan did not focus on helping African American adjust to their new lives in the South
Black Codes were passed in the South during his plan, which treated African Americans as second class citizens
He tried to get rid of the Freedmen's Bureau
All of the above
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Stopped the actions of the Freedmen's Bureau
Replaced Johnson's 10 percent plan
The former Confederate states were returned to military districts until new constitutions were made, passed the 14th amendment, and gave freedmen the right to vote
Was part of the 14th amendment
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They were horrified at the violence that was being broadcast on national tv and realized that something needed to be done
They were aware of the violence and were still undecided what to do about civil rights
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
Both and A and C
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Gave women the right to vote
Ordered the federal government to return all land back to Native Americans
Helped African Americans gain voting rights by outlawing poll taxes
Ordered schools to provide bilingual education
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Racism
Segregation
Massive resistance
Violent protests
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Washington DC
The Southern States
Voting polls
Supreme Court hearings
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Protest for better jobs and rights
Protest for better education for all
Meeting of all the leaders of the movement and he gave a speech there
None of the above
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Amendment 15
Amendment 14
Amendment 13
Amendment 10
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Invite women into the workforce and find jobs
Help Native Americans find work and better careers
Help African American voters in Southern states
Minorities in NC
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March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case
Greensboro Sit in
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The nine students held a sit in at the high school
Parents protested and took case to the local school board
President Eisenhower sent in National Guard troops in order to provide safe passage for students into the school
MLK protested the actions of the school
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Separate but equal facilities for African Americans and whites
Same facilities provided for African Americans and whites
All were equal under the law
None of the above
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Elected to political office
Removed from political office
Convicted of crimes
Accused of wrong doing
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Separate but equal
Equality for all
Equality in education
Freedom for all
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