Unit 10-Texas Civil Rights Quiz

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In

• Freedom Rides

• Selma March

• Filibuster

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965? From Stonewall, TX

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions    

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Robert Kennedy

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Rebecca L. Felton

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Keeping things or people Separate

• prejudice

• union

• confederate

• segregation

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans

• It segregated buses in America

• It made Rosa Parks lots of money

• It helped de-segregate buses in America

What are Civil Rights?

• Rights that only some citizens get

• Rights that all citizens get

• Rights that are civil

• Rights that are controlled by the president