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Society And Culture From 1950 - 1970
Test Description: Civil Rights, assassinations, television, space exploration
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) 1. Which type of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. oppose(not agree with) during the civil rights movement?
A
Sit ins
B
Marches
C
race riots
D
Boycott
2) What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?
A
Segregation in public schools became illegal
B
African Americans began to play professional sports
C
Martin Luther King led the March on Washington protest
D
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
3) Thurgood Marshall became known for
A
Winning the court case of Brown v. Board of Education
B
Organizing the March on Washington
C
Assassinating JFK
D
Giving African Americans the right to vote
4) US Senator that was assassinated while running for president in 1968
A
Martin Luther King Jr.
B
Thurgood Marshall
C
Robert F. Kennedy
D
Lee Harvey Oswald
5) What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A
It made literacy tests and poll taxes illegal
B
It allowed women to vote
C
It gave black women the right to vote
D
It boycotted school buses
6) Which best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A
MLK was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
B
Thousands of black blockaded the streets so that busses could not finish their routes
C
Segregation on city busses became illegal after many months protesting
D
City buses remained segregated
7) What were the Jim Crow Laws?
A
Laws that allowed employers to pay black workers less than white workers
B
Laws that were abolished during Reconstruction
C
Laws that discriminated against migrant workers
D
Laws that forced black people to stay separated from white people
8) What was the Space Race?
A
several different nations wanted to be the first to manufacture space rockets
B
the competition between the US and Soviet Union to put human being(s) into space
C
The launch of two rockets at one time to see which would reach outer space first
D
experiments by NASA to find out which type of satellite could reach space the fastest
9) Who was sworn in as president after JF Kennedy was assassinated?
A
Dwight Eisenhower
B
Lyndon Johnson
C
Thurgood Marshall
D
Theodore Roosevelt
10) What was the March on Washington for jobs and freedom?
A
a march for equality
B
a march against high taxss
C
a march for space xexploration
D
a march through the state of Washington
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