Society And Culture From 1950 - 1970 Question Preview (ID: 55113)
Civil Rights, Assassinations, Television, Space Exploration.
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1. Which type of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. oppose(not agree with) during the civil rights movement?
a) race riots
b) Marches
c) Boycott
d) Sit ins
What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?
a) African Americans began to play professional sports
b) Martin Luther King led the March on Washington protest
c) Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
d) Segregation in public schools became illegal
Thurgood Marshall became known for
a) Assassinating JFK
b) Organizing the March on Washington
c) Giving African Americans the right to vote
d) Winning the court case of Brown v. Board of Education
US Senator that was assassinated while running for president in 1968
a) Lee Harvey Oswald
b) Robert F. Kennedy
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Thurgood Marshall
What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a) It gave black women the right to vote
b) It made literacy tests and poll taxes illegal
c) It boycotted school buses
d) It allowed women to vote
Which best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott
a) Segregation on city busses became illegal after many months protesting
b) City buses remained segregated
c) Thousands of black blockaded the streets so that busses could not finish their routes
d) MLK was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
a) Laws that discriminated against migrant workers
b) Laws that allowed employers to pay black workers less than white workers
c) Laws that forced black people to stay separated from white people
d) Laws that were abolished during Reconstruction
What was the Space Race?
a) The launch of two rockets at one time to see which would reach outer space first
b) the competition between the US and Soviet Union to put human being(s) into space
c) several different nations wanted to be the first to manufacture space rockets
d) experiments by NASA to find out which type of satellite could reach space the fastest
Who was sworn in as president after JF Kennedy was assassinated?
a) Lyndon Johnson
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Thurgood Marshall
d) Dwight Eisenhower
What was the March on Washington for jobs and freedom?
a) a march for space xexploration
b) a march for equality
c) a march through the state of Washington
d) a march against high taxss
Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
a) Thurgood Marshall
b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
c) John F. Kennedy
d) Rosa Parks
American Farm Worker that fought for better working conditions for migrant workers
a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
b) Cesar Chavez
c) Robert F. Kennedy
d) Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court Decision that outlawed segregation in public schools
a) Civil Rights Act of 1964
b) Voting Rights Act of 1965
c) March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
d) Brown v. Board of Education
Inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott by not giving up seat to a white passenger
a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) Rosa Parks
d) Lyndon B. Johnson
How did Jim Crow Laws keep African Americans from voting?
a) Poll taxes and literacy tests
b) Restricting African Americans in their hometowns
c) Segregation in public schools
d) segregation in public places
US spacecraft that was the first to put humans on the moon
a) Apollo11
b) Apollo 13
c) Sputnik 1
d) NASA
Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction that segregated blacks and whites
a) Jim Crow Laws
b) Poll taxes
c) Literacy tests
d) assassination
Made segregation illegal in public places such as parks, restaurants, movie theaters, etc.
a) Voting Rights Act of 1965
b) Civil Rights Act of 1964
c) Brown v. Board of Education
d) Jim Crow Laws
Made it illegal to discriminate against women in the workplace
a) Civil Rights Act of 1964
b) Voting Rights Act of 1965
c) Equal Pay Act of 1963
d) Brown v. Board of Education
Unmanned Russian satellite that was the first to orbit the Earth
a) Apollo 11
b) Apollo 13
c) Sputnik I
d) NASA
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