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