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Civil Rights Movement TestWh

Name: _______________________________ Date: ___________

Multiple Choice

Circle the best answer to each question.

1. In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court rule that “separate but equal” facilities were legal?

A. Roe v. Wade

B. Brown v. Board of Education

C. McCulloch v. Maryland

D. Plessy v. Ferguson

2. College students used a non-violent protest tactic called ________, to desegregate whites-only lunch counters.

A. strikes

B. sit-ins

C. marches

D. riots

3. The ________ Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery.

A. 10th

B. 13th

C. 15th

D. 19th

4. President __________ promised to propose a civil rights bill to Congress, but was assassinated before it was passed through Congress.

A. Eisenhower

B. Johnson

C. Kennedy

D. Nixon

5. ___________ was a civil rights leader who encouraged the use of non-violent protest.

A. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

B. Malcolm X

C. Homer Plessy

D. Linda Brown

6. Many civil rights activists took ____________ on the interstate bus systems to see if they had been integrated like the Supreme Court ruled.

A. sit-ins

B. freedom rides

C. the march on Washington

D. meetings

7. The _______ Amendment provides for equal protection of the laws to all citizens.

A. 21st

B. 18th

C. 14th

D. 15th

8. Many African Americans moved to ________ to escape segregation and discrimination in the South, but were met with similar situations and conditions.

A. the South

B. Northern cities

C. the West

D. Europe

9. The main focus of the civil rights movement was attaining ____________.

A. equal rights in all areas

B. desegregation

C. voting rights

D. black separatism

10. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal in the case of

A. Marbury v. Madison

B. Miranda v. Arizona

C. Brown v. Board of Education

D. Plessy v. Ferguson

11. The _______ Amendment says that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

A. 15th

B. 2nd

C. 27th

D. 13th

12. Many school systems in the South did not want to integrate so they ____________.

A. closed

B. re-opened

C. started a civil war

D. allowed black students into the white schools

13. __________ is known for her role in the civil rights movement for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man.

A. Martha Washington

B. Rosa Parks

C. Linda Brown

D. Harriet Tubman

14. 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

15. ___________ was African American leader advocated the use of weapons for self-defense and did not agree with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A. Thurgood Marshall

B. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

C. Malcolm X

D. Lyndon Johnson

16. In August 1963, thousands of people gathered at the ___________ in the U.S. capital to fight for better jobs and a civil rights bill.

A. Montgomery bus boycott

B. Supreme Court

C. March on Washington

D. Sit-ins

17. The ________ Act of 1965 ended the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration in many cities and towns.

A. Johnson

B. Voting Rights

C. Jim Crow

D. Brown

18. Which of the following is NOT an example of nonviolent resistance?

A. sit-ins

B. a march

C. riot

D. boycott

19. President ________ took office when Kennedy was assassinated.

A. Johnson

B. Nixon

C. Reagan

D. Roosevelt

Vocabulary

Fill in the blank with the correct term.

20. ____________________________ is the enforced separation of racial groups in schooling, housing, and other public areas.

21. The _________________ was an organization founded in 1909 that helped challenge the legality of segregation.

22. ______________________________ are the guaranteed rights of U.S. citizens.

23. Attainment of the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote, is known as ______________________________.

24. A ____________________________ is an organized movement not to buy or use a certain product or deal with a certain company or nation, in order to exert pressure for change.

25. Rules and laws that segregated people based on their race were called ____________________________ laws.

26. When a Senator does not want a bill to pass into law, they ________________________, or debate a bill non-stop to keep it from coming to a vote.

27. _____________________________ is the act of peacefully demonstrating for a change in policy without fighting authorities, even if provoked.

28. A person who is aggressive in promoting a cause and does not tolerate compromise is a ___________________________.

29. A ___________________________ is a person who dies for an important cause.

30. _____________________________ is a strategy for causing social change by means of nonviolent resistance to unfair laws.

boycott enfranchisement militant

black separatism filibuster NAACP

civil disobedience Jim Crow nonviolent resistance

civil rights martyr segregation

Extra Credit:

1. What does the NAACP stand for?

2. Name the city or college students were from that started the first sit-in to desegregate the whites-only lunch counters.

3. What is the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous speech he gave at the March on Washington?

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