Civil Rights Unit Review

Question 1

Who was born a slave and started the Tuskegee Institute & believed the way to equality was through practical education?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washinton

Question 2

What laws were passed in the South that allowed for segregation and discrimination?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws

Question 3

Who helped found the NAACP & believed equality was through higher education?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 4

Who led the March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 5

Leader of the Nation of Islam & believed blacks & whites should stay separate, & blacks should form a strong community?

Accepted Answer

Malcom X

Question 6

Which describes the March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

over 300k hear MLK Jr. give I Have A Dream speech @ Washington D.C.

Question 7

Which describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Black Americans refuse to ride city buses until they are desegregated

Question 8

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed discrimination.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Which act, signed into law in 1964, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 10

Who was the president of MIA and believed in using nonviolent protests to gain equality?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr

Question 11

Jesus loves you.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

What is the Civil Rights Movement?

Accepted Answer

A movement for the rights of African Americans

Question 13

Which speech did Martin Luther King Jr. give in Memphis, TN before he was assassinated?

Accepted Answer

I've Been to the Mountaintop

Question 14

Based on the 14th Amendment, the government must treat people fairly.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which describes the Greensboro Sit-in?

Accepted Answer

4 black students sit at an all-white lunch counter to integrate restaurant

Question 16

Which states seceded from the United States

Accepted Answer

Southern States

Question 17

Why were the 14th and 15th Amendments passed?

Accepted Answer

to give former enslaved people the rights of American Citizens

Question 18

What is the theme of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I have a Dream?"

Accepted Answer

One day we will all live in equality

Question 19

Which Supreme Court case stated that "separate is inherently unequal" and made it illegal to segregate public schools?

Accepted Answer

Brown v Board of Education

Question 20

Which describes the Freedom Riders?

Accepted Answer

13 people black & white ride buses DC to Louisiana to bake segregation laws

Question 21

Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for the use of nonviolent, peaceful protests.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Who was the president during reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

Question 23

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

to free all enslaved people in the South

Question 24

Which amendment outlawed slavery in the United States

Accepted Answer

13th amendment

Question 25

What is the rebuilding period after the Civil War known as?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 26

Which of these is known for refusing to give up her seat and starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 27

Who is president during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 28

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois had the same idea about gaining equality.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted over a year.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

What did the southern states call themselves after they seceded from the Union?

Accepted Answer

Confederate States of America

Question 31

What religion did Malcom X follow that helped him form his worldview?

Accepted Answer

Nation of Islam

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