Black History Month Pre-Assessment

What was the Civil Rights Movement about?

• Equality of race (the color of one's skin)

• Equality of gender (if someone is a boy or girl)

• Equality of religion (what/who someone believes in)

What does the word "segregation" mean?

• Being kept apart from other people

• Including other people

How were black people treated in the 1960s?

• Good. Black and white people got along well with each other.

• Bad. Black people were separated from white people and were forced to go to worse schools.

What civil rights leader refused to give up his or her seat on the bus to a white person?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream?

• To become friends with Rosa Parks

• To be treated equally

• To visit Washington, D.C.

• To have his own statue in Washington, D.C.

What does it mean to "boycott"?

• To start using or buying something
• To share something
• To stop using or buying something

True or false: Ruby Bridges was the only black student who went to an all-white elementary school.

• True

• False

What effect did the Montgomery bus boycott have on the local bus company?

• Less passengers rode the bus so the bus company received less money.

• More passengers rode the bus so the bus company received more money.

• The number of passengers stayed the same so the bus company received their usual amount of money.

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A place where white people bought slaves
• A secret path that headed to free states in the North
• The town where Harriet Tubman grew up

Which of the following is NOT true about George Washington Carver?

• He was the first African American to earn a college degree.

• He was an agricultural (farming) scientist.

• He invented hundreds of products using peanuts and other crops and helped poor farmers.

• He was a slave his entire life.