Society And Culture From 1950 - 1970 Question Preview (ID: 55113)


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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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