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Civil Rights
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Subject
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civics
Instructions:
Answer 25 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Created 'the pill' which offered freedom of choice to women
Freedom Summer
Margaret Sanger
Great Society
Malcolm X
2. Ended literacy tests and poll taxes; allowed officers to register voters
Stokely Carmichael
Mahatma Gandhi
1965 Voting Rights Act
Montgomery Bus Boycott
3. NAACP lawyer during Brown v Board case; 1st black Supreme Court justice
Freedom Rides
Thurgood Marshall
affirmative action
Stokely Carmichael
4. Sit-ins started in Greensboro - North Carolina to peacefully protest segregation in restaurants - etc.
NAACP
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit-In Movement
Freedom Summer
5. Riders integrated buses and rode through the South to challenge segregation; violence erupted
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Margaret Sanger
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Freedom Rides
6. Black Muslim leader who believed white racism should be fought in a violtnet manner if necessary
affirmative action
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom Summer
Malcolm X
7. In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus. King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
Thurgood Marshall
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Birmingham:Children's Marches
Selma to Montgomery Marches
8. A meeting ground and headquarters for the movement was bombed killing four girls
1964 Civil Rights Act
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
affirmative action
Great Society
9. Leader of SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He coined the term 'Black Power'
Black Panthers
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
1965 Voting Rights Act
Stokely Carmichael
10. Nonviolent leader of the Civil Rights Movement; delivered 'I have a Dream' speech; Nobel Peace Prize winner
Freedom Summer
1964 Civil Rights Act
Malcolm X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
11. Black boy from Chicago Who was murdered when visiting in the South; emotional spark to the movement
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Emmett Till
Margaret Sanger
Birmingham:Children's Marches
12. Outlawed segregation in public places; banned discrimination in employment
Malcolm X
1964 Civil Rights Act
affirmative action
Betty Freidan
13. Worked for civil rights through confrontation and violence
March on Washington
Sit-In Movement
Black Panthers
Malcolm X
14. President Johnson's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Great Society
Black Panthers
Emmett Till
15. Wrote 'the Feminine Mystique' amd created NOW (National Organization of Women) worked for equal pay and opportunities for women in society
Birmingham: Demonstrations
Plessy v Ferguson
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Betty Freidan
16. 'Bloody Sunday'-Three marches for voting rights - police beat marchers and used tear gas against them; violence was shown on TV
Margaret Sanger
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Great Society
Stokely Carmichael
17. Fire hoses and dogs were used against children and teens who were peacefully protesting
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18. Father of non-violent protest; King admired him and adopted his approach
1965 Voting Rights Act
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Mahatma Gandhi
19. Marchers demanded passage of a civil rights bill - job opportunities and integration; 'I have a dream' speech was given
Plessy v Ferguson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
March on Washington
20. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; worked for civil rights throughthe legal system
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom Rides
NAACP
Emmett Till
21. A policy to create opportunities for those that have been discriminated againt in the past
Birmingham:Children's Marches
1964 Civil Rights Act
affirmative action
Stokely Carmichael
22. A voters' registration drive in Mississippi turned violent when three college students (from the north) were killed. SHS students recently brought one of the killers (Killen) to justice.
Sit-In Movement
Freedom Summer
Selma to Montgomery Marches
affirmative action
23. Established the 'separate but equal' policy in the US
Birmingham:Children's Marches
Plessy v Ferguson
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Emmett Till
24. King fought segregation and brought attention to civil rights by going against 'Bull' Conner - an extreme racist.
Emmett Till
NAACP
Birmingham: Demonstrations
affirmative action
25. Students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock - 1957.
Little Rock Nine
March on Washington
Birmingham: Demonstrations
Freedom Summer