Unit 5 Test Review

What was the Civil Rights Movement?

• An organized refusal to have any dealings with a person, country, or business

• A rule or order made by a President of the United States.

• When you accuse a person (in court) of doing something wrong or illegal and demand that they pay for it.

• a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s. The purpose of this movement was for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

What is segregation?

• When people of different races are allowed to be in the same places and use the same services

• Separating people because of their races

Which Supreme Court Case made segregation legal?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

True or False: During and just after World War II, presidents Roosevelt and Truman each signed Executive Orders to reduce segregation in the United States. 

• False

• True

After the Supreme Court decided that segregation in public school was illegal, they told the states that they needed to integrate their schools _____________.

• Quickly

• Slower

• Whenever they wanted to

True or False: Many states did not act quickly to bring their black and white students together.

• False

• True

True or False: the governor of Arkansas used the members of the Army to prevent the “Little Rock 9” students from entering the school building for more than 2 weeks

• True

• False

When the Little Rock Nine first tried to go to Central High School, they were greeted by a crowd of _____________ protestors.

• excited

• happy

• angry

• sad

When Ruby Bridges was ____ years old she became the first African American student to go to her elementary school

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

Why did Ruby’s parents want her to go to the integrated school even though it was dangerous?

• They did not like her teacher at her old school

• They wanted her to receive a better education

• They did not think education was important