What was the law that prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, or religion?
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow Laws
What law banned literacy tests for voting?
Jim Crow Laws
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Brown v. Board of Education
Who was assassinated in 1968 angering many Americans and causing riots?
President John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
President Lyndon Johnson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the protest where African Americans refused to ride buses until segregation on public transportation was outlawed??
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
What was the peaceful protest of over 250,000 people at the nation's capital called?
Civil Rights Movement
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
I Have a Dream
President _______________________ was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Robert Kennedy
President Kennedy’s brother, ___________________ was also shot and killed while campaigning to be president on June 5, 1968.
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Which country was the first to land a man on the moon?
United States of America
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Russia
What other technological advance came about in the 1960's?
dvd
television
microwave
telephone
Cesar Chavez wanted to improve _____.
roads for bikes
working conditions for farm workers
soil for grapes
schools for kids
Cesar Chavez's union wanted to make a change so he organized a strike. What happens in a strike?
People work longer hours
People refuse to work until they get what they want
People work for less money
People break windows and steal from stores
Which type of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. oppose(not agree with) during the civil rights movement?
boycotts
sit ins
marches
race riots
What was the results of the Brown vs. Board of Education court case in 1954?
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
Segregation of public schools became illegal
African Americans began to play professional sports
Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:
Assassinating President Kennedy
Giving African Americans the right to vote
Organizing the March on Washington
Winning the court case Brown v. Board of Education
