Name:_______________________________ Unit 10 Exam Review (The Civil Rights Movement) Period:_____
1.
What is a term for racist laws & social orders in the South that kept blacks separate from whites?____________
2.
Which amendment ended Slavery?______________________________________________________________
3.
Which of the following amendments provided equal protection under the law?___________________________
4.
Which amendment gave black men the right to vote?_______________________________________________
5.
What 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal”
facilities for blacks & whites?__________________________________________________________________
6.
What organization was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois & is the oldest Civil Rights organization in the United
States?____________________________________________________________________________________
7.
What Supreme Court case finally managed to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine?__________________
8.
Who was Supreme Court chief justice that convinced his fellow justices to declare unanimously that segregated
public schools were inherently unequal?_________________________________________________________
9.
Who was the NAACP lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case and will later become a Supreme Court
Justice?___________________________________________________________________________________
10. Who effectively launched the 1st peaceful protest of the civil rights movement, when she boarded a
Montgomery, Alabama, city bus on December 1, 1955, and refused to give up her seat to a white man who was
looking for a seat?___________________________________________________________________________
11. Who became the leader of the civil rights movement?_______________________________________________
12. What is a separation of races known as?_________________________________________________________
13. Why was Martin Luther King Jr. able to muster support for his cause from the white community?____________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
14. What best describes the record of President Eisenhower on the subject of Civil Rights?____________________
15. What was the name of the crisis in which Arkansas governor Orval Faubus chose to ignore a federal court order
to desegregate the state’s public schools & used the National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering
Central High School?_________________________________________ Who was the President responsible for
integrating this high school?___________________________________________________________________
16. Where did a 1960 protest take place in which 4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter in a in
Greensboro, North Carolina, & demanded service?_________________________________________________
17. What was the name of the group of student leaders and inaugurated the sit-in movement that spread across the
country?___________________________________________________________________________________
18. What is De Facto Segregation?_________________________________________________________________
19. Why was the right to vote so central to the groups in favor of equal rights and the groups against equal rights?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
20. In what year did the murder of Emmett Till and the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place?_________
21. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?__________________________________________________
22. Who held the office of Attorney General and supported the Civil Rights movement and announced in
Indianapolis the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?____________________________________________
23. Where did one of the largest political rallies in American history take place in which more than 200,000 blacks
& whites gathered?__________________________________________________________________________
24. Who was a prominent civil rights leader who quickly became the national voice for the black nationalist Nation
of Islam in the early 1950s?___________________________________________________________________
25. Who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?_________________________________
26. Who was the first black man to attend the University of Mississippi?___________________________________
27. What group formed with the thoughts of “black power” theories and for Self-Defense?____________________
Who were the leaders of this group?_____________________________________________________________
28. What was the name of the crisis that took place for six days, and more than 50,000 outraged blacks burned and
looted neighborhoods, attacking whites, Hispanics, and other minorities? It was one week after signing the
Voting Rights Act of 1965.____________________________________________________________________
29. Who assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968?_______________________________ When was Martin
Luther King assassinated?_____________________Where was he when he was assassinated?______________
30. What Civil Rights leader was with Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of that hotel when King was
assassinated? He is still a leader for African Americans today._______________________________________
31. What group is a terrorist organization founded to prevent blacks from voting?___________________________
32. The putting the races together, such as in a school or restaurant is called what?___________________________
33. What is De Jure Segregation?__________________________________________________________________
34. What is a lynching?__________________________________________________________________________
35. Which law gave the U.S. Federal government the power to oversee voter registration?_____________________
36. Who was President when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed?____________________________________
37. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of what?__________________
38. Where did Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategy of non-violent protest come from?__________________________
39. What amendment made it unconstitutional to require payment of a poll tax or any other tax in order to vote in a
primary or any other election in the United States?_________________________________________________
40. What African American is famous for breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball?________________
41. What were the Freedom Rides organized to test?___________________________________________________
42. According to MLK’s Letter’s from a Birmingham Jail, How can a person tell an unjust law from a just law?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
43. The Freedom Summer and the Selma March both called attention to African Americans’ lack of
what?_____________________________________________________________________________________
44. Who was found guilty of killing Emmett Till?_____________________________________________________
45. The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education ended what?______________________________
46. Which organization, found mainly on college campuses, gave young African Americans a greater voice in the
civil rights movement?_______________________________________________________________________
47. Who argued in his book Black Power that blacks should take pride in their heritage, culture, and should not
have anything to do with whites in the U.S.?______________________________________________________
48. Why did the Civil Rights movement end in 1968?__________________________________________________
49. What was Malcolm X’s message on the Civil Rights movement before his pilgrimage to Mecca? ____________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
50. Who was the 35th President of the U.S. and wanted to see a Civil Rights Act get passed in Congress but was
assassinated before that law could get passed?_____________________________________________________
Short Essay Topics for the Unit 10 Exam
Directions: There will be six “topics” on the unit 10 exam and you will choose three, of your choice, to write
about.
1.
Martin Luther King Jr.
2.
Malcolm X
3.
Rosa Parks
4.
Emmett Till
5.
Stokely Carmichael
6.
Brown v. Board of Education
7.
Thurgood Marshall
8.
Jim Crow Laws
9.
Black Panthers
10. Watts Riots