LAST TEST

Question 1

What are the four successes discussed in class of the civil rights movement?

Answer 1

More registered to vote

Blacks were appointed in gov. Positions

Proposal of civil rights bill

March on Washington

Question 2

What are four setbacks African Americans faced during the civil rights movement?

Answer 2

Kennedy was cautious

Assassination of MLK

Violence against African Americans

Slow pace of school desegregation

Question 3

What are the three parts of the civil rights act if 1964that would help eliminate discrimination

Answer 3

All people have access to public facilities

Stop discrimination in education

Outlaw job discrimination saws on race, sex, religion, or national origin

Question 4

When was MLK assassinated

Answer 4

April 4th, 1968

Question 5

Who assassinated MLK

Answer 5

James earl ray

Question 6

Where was MLK assassinated

Answer 6

Memphis TN

Question 7

How did the black panthers hope to achieve equal rights, how was their philosophy different from one of MLK’s?

Answer 7

They believed to fight through violence while MLK didn’t

Question 8

What was the reaction across the country after the assassination of MLK

Answer 8

Caused riots

Question 9

What is considered to be the beginning of the civil rights movement

Answer 9

Montgomery bus boycott

Question 10

Who had the greatest influence on MLK and his thoughts on non violence

Answer 10

Ghandi

Question 11

In what city did freedoms riders have their bus attacked?

Answer 11

Anniston, AL

Question 12

What what the nickname of Birmingham

Answer 12

Bombingham

Question 13

In what two ways did kids help the Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 13

Went to jail and spread the word

Question 14

How was Rosa parks raised a little different

Answer 14

She was taught that she was the same and equal to everybody else

Question 15

What was the economic effect on the Montgomery buses during the boycott

Answer 15

Many companies almost lost their businesses

Question 16

Brown on board of education

Answer 16

Supreme Court case stating that it was unconstitutional to separate school by race

Question 17

Rosa parks

Answer 17

African-American who boarded bus and sat in the front

Question 18

MLK

Answer 18

Leader of nonviolent civil rights movement

Question 19

Nonviolent resistance

Answer 19

Peaceful means to affect change

Question 20

Eugene bull Conner

Answer 20

Police commissioner of Birmingham Alabama ordered officers to use fire hoses clubs dogs to stop demonstrators

Question 21

March on Washington

Answer 21

August 1963 civil rights demonstration where Martin Luther King Junior gave his I have a dream speech

Question 22

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 22

Separate but equal public accommodations were legal

Question 23

Sit in

Answer 23

Refusing to leave area until you get what you want

Question 24

Nation of Islam

Answer 24

Led by Malcolm X and known as black Muslims

Question 25

Malcolm X

Answer 25

Minister who popularized the ideas of black Muslims

Question 26

Racism

Answer 26

To discriminate or have prejudice against someone because of the color of their skin

Question 27

Black nationalism

Answer 27

Blacks should completely separate themselves from white society and form self governing communities

Question 28

Black power

Answer 28

Believe that blacks should take back all aspects in their life including social political and economic

Question 29

Black panthers

Answer 29

Most militant black power group

Question 30

Lyndon B Johnson

Answer 30

Succeeded Kennedy as president of US and signed the civil rights act of 1964

Question 31

Memphis Tennessee

Answer 31

City where MLK Junior was assassinated

Question 32

Little rock

Answer 32

Site of Central high school court ordered desegregation

Question 33

Freedom riders

Answer 33

Civil rights activists who traveled on charter buses into segregated bus terminals in the south