Social Studies - Cold War & Civil Rights

Question 1

This act desegregated all places such as restaurants and buildings.

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 2

A group of African Americans that rode buses and trains to see if they were desegregated

Accepted Answer

Freedom Riders

Question 3

A boycott that was organized by MLK in 1954 where African Americans refused to ride the buses.

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 4

Separation of people by color of their skin.

Accepted Answer

Segregation

Question 5

The act of being mean or taking things away from people for no reason.

Accepted Answer

Discrimination

Question 6

This court case ended segregation in schools in 1954.

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 7

A lawyer who helped Linda Brown. This man was also first African American on US Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 8

A famous African American woman who refused to give up her seat.

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 9

The best known Civil Rights activitist.

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 10

This act got rid of poll taxes and literacy tests in order to vote.

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 11

The act of not doing something in order to get something in return.

Accepted Answer

Boycott

Question 12

This is something a person is allowed to do.

Accepted Answer

Right

Questions 12