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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWho played a pivotal role in boycotting the Montgomery Bus line after being arrested ?Ida WellsRosa ParksElla BakerCoretta Scott King
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich governor tried to prevent 9 african american students from entering Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas ?George WallaceOrval FaubusStrom ThurmondLester Maddox
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich amendment ensured citizenship and the basic rights of all citizens?13th amendment14th amendment15th amendment16th amendment
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhich civil rights leader advocated separation for African Americans and was opposed to integration ?Martin Luther KingMedgar EversMalcolm XEldrige Cleaver
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich president ordered the infantry division to be sent in to protect 9 African American students as they integrated central High school in little rock Arkansas?Dwight EisenhowerJohn F KennedyLyndon JohnsonRichard Nixon
- 6. Multiple Choicewhich supreme court case ruled that separation is okay so long as it is equal?Plessy V. FergusonDred Scott v. SanfordMarbury v. MadisonMiranda v. Arizona
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?Segregation of public schools became illegalAfrican Americans began to play professional sportsMartin Luther King led the March on WashingtonRosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus - 8. Multiple ChoiceThe March on Washington was most famous because . . .it caused race riots in the nation's Capital200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to votethe KKK became an illegal organization because of the marchMartin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protestThousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routesMartin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white personSegregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich type of protest did Martin Luther King oppose during the Civil Rights Movement?Sit-inBus BoycottMarch on WashingtonRace Riots
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Freedom Rides do?desegregated busesprotest, sit-ins, votingpreaching personal responsibilitysecure civil rights through court cases
- 12. Multiple ChoiceOn February 1, 1960, four black college students in Greensboro, N.C. tried to integrate the lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth; this type of protest spread across the south and became very effectivesit-in campaignRiots in Birmingham
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?It gave black women the right to voteIt made literacy tests in order to vote illegalIt made Jim Crow Laws illegalIt gave all blacks the right to vote
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe main goal of the freedom riders was topressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate busesinspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crowencourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agendadesegregate urban bus systems in the south
- 15. Multiple ChoiceIn the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled thatprivate schools should be controlled by the federal governmentissues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.racially segregated public schools are unconstitutionalthe "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich organization's name correctly completes this table?Nation of IslamBlack Panther PartyCongress of Racial EqualityNAACP
- 17. Multiple Choice
What did the president do for the Little Rock 9?
He bought all of their textbooks.
He drove them to school each day.
He sent US soldiers to escort them to school each day.
He bought them lunch at a lunch counter.
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