Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

What was the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 1

The Civil Rights Movement was a struggle for social justice so Black Americans could gain equal rights in the United States

Question 2

What decades did the Civil Rights Movement take place?

Answer 2

1950s and 1960s

Question 3

How did a restaurant owner in the South violate Jim Crow laws?

Answer 3

Seating black and white customers next to each other

Question 4

How was segregation enforced in the North?

Answer 4

Informal customs

Question 5

Where was Rosa Parks arrested?

Answer 5

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 6

Boycotting a store means…

Answer 6

Refusing to shop there

Question 7

Both MLK Jr. and Mahatma Gandi…

Answer 7

Organized nonviolent protests

Question 8

What was MLK Jr.’s dream?

Answer 8

That children of all races would love and respect one another

Question 9

What word best describes MLK Jr.’s speaking style?

Answer 9

Powerful

Question 10

MLK Jr. and Malcolm X differed in their…

Answer 10

Methods of protest

Question 11

The “X” in Malcolm X represents his rejection of…

Answer 11

The legacy of slavery

Question 12

Two goals of the Civil Rights Movement were to…

Answer 12

• Repeal segregation laws
• Gain equal pay

Question 13

The result of the Brown vs. Board of Education case was…

Answer 13

African American kids were allowed to attend the same schools as white kids

Question 14

Ending segregation was so difficult because…

Answer 14

Segregation was enforced by many state and federal laws

Question 15

What does “to segregate” mean?

Answer 15

To keep things separate

Question 16

How was segregation similar to slavery?

Answer 16

They were both racist systems that discriminated against African Americans

Question 17

Which argument helped overturn the separate but equal policy?

Answer 17

Facilities for African Americans usually were inferior

Question 18

How does the Plessy v. Ferguson case compare to the Brown v. Board of Education case?

Answer 18

The Plessy case legalized racial segregation, while the Brown case found this unconstitutional

Question 19

How might life in America be different if the Civil Rights Movement had never happened?

Answer 19

Public places could still be segregated

Question 20

What is misleading about describing Jim Crow South as separate but equal?

Answer 20

African Americans’ facilities were usually inferior

Question 21

The Jim Crow stereotype harmed African Americans by altering…

Answer 21

The public’s perception of them

Question 22

Compared to the Jim Crow South, the North during the same era was…

Answer 22

Less restrictive for African Americans, but still segregated

Question 23

What best characterizes the Supreme Court’s view of Jim Crow laws

Answer 23

It initially supported them

Question 24

MLK Jr. once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” What did he mean by that?

Answer 24

Right will prevail over wrong eventually

Question 25

Social Justice

Answer 25

Fair and equal treatment of all people in a society

Question 26

Racial Segregation

Answer 26

A system of separating citizens on the basis of race (sometimes legally, sometimes socially)

Question 27

Discrimination

Answer 27

Unfair treatment of a person based on the group, class, or category to which that person belongs

Question 28

Disenfranchisement

Answer 28

Depriving a person of the rights or privileges of a citizen, especially the right to vote

Question 29

What are three words to describe America in the 1950s?

Answer 29

- Transforming - Peaceful - Prosperous

Question 30

What was the name for the system of discrimination in the South?

Answer 30

Jim Crow

Question 31

Migrant

Answer 31

A person who attempts to permanently relocate to a new country, but who may be subject to removal by the government of that country

Question 32

What are the three Midwest cities where many Blacks moved to during the Great Migration?

Answer 32

-Cleveland - Chicago - Detroit

Question 33

Name the Civil Rights Movement presidents in order, with their political party:

Answer 33

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) 2. John F. Kennedy (Democratic) 3. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)

Question 34

What type of people lead grassroots movements?

Answer 34

Average people; just normal people

Question 35

Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?

Answer 35

Thurgood Marshall

Question 36

What state were the Little Rock Nine from?

Answer 36

Arkansas

Question 37

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that overruled the separate but equal principle and ended racial segregation in American schools?

Answer 37

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 38

Integrate

Answer 38

To bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole

Question 39

Desegregate

Answer 39

To eliminate racial segregation; to integrate at an institutional level members of different communities without regard to skin color

Question 40

Where, when, and how long was the famous bus boycott?

Answer 40

Montgomery, Alabama - 1955 - 381 days

Question 41

What two women are known for refusing to give up their bus seats?

Answer 41

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks

Question 42

Incumbent

Answer 42

Holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently

Question 43

Domestic Reforms

Answer 43

Improving something inside your own country

Question 44

What was the connection between MLK and Gandhi?

Answer 44

They both led peaceful protests

Question 45

How are the number of electoral votes for each state determined?

Answer 45

Number of Senators plus the number of members of the House of Representatives

Question 46

Television played a major role in the presidential election between which two candidates?

Answer 46

Kennedy and Nixon

Question 47

Legacy

Answer 47

The long-lasting impact of particular events, actions, etc. that took place in the past, or of a person’s life

Question 48

What year was the March on Washington?

Answer 48

1963

Question 49

Sympathiser

Answer 49

Someone who supports or agrees with something or someone

Question 50

What two important civil rights laws were passed in the mid 1960s?

Answer 50

- Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 51

What are five types of nonviolent protests that took place during the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 51

- Sit-ins - Boycotts - Protests - Civil disobedience - Speeches