Name Class Date
A. Key Terms and People
Directions: Match the definitions in Column I with the terms in Column II. Write the correct
letter in each blank. You will not use all of the terms. (3 points each)
Column I Column II
1. attempted to determine the causes a. Freedom Summer
of the 1967 riots b. Thurgood Marshall
2. term first used by SNCC leader c. Brown v. Board of Education
Stokley Carmichael d. Martin Luther King
3. radical African American activist e. de jure segregation
killed in 1965 f. Voting Rights Act
4. racial separation imposed by law g. Kerner Commission
5. a massive 1964 effort to register African h. Malcolm X
American voters in Mississippi i. black power
6. bus trip staged by CORE to defy j. Montgomery bus boycott
segregationist codes k. freedom ride
7. banned literacy tests for voter registration l. James Meredith
8. African American who enrolled at
Ole Miss
9. case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
10. NAACP attorney who led a
legal challenge against segregation
B. Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer in each blank. (4 points each)
11. Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major
league baseball?
a. Jackie Robinson c. Thurgood Marshall
b. Ralph Abernathy d. Bobby Seele
12. What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?
a. It affirmed the doctrine of separate but equal.
b. It organized national White Citizens Councils.
c. It overturned Brown II.
d. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
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13. How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
a. 24 hours c. more than a year
b. one week d. more than five years
14. In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation,
a. the Johnson administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists.
b. the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi
activists.
c. the Kennedy administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists.
d. the Johnson administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi
activists.
15. Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil
rights campaign?
a. because of its strong support for civil rights
b. because it was considered the most segregated city in the South
c. because President Kennedy had been born there
d. because it was the only southern city that practiced segregation
Directions: Use the following excerpt from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to answer
question 16.
16. In the excerpt above, what two specific activities are protected from
discrimination?
a. voting and housing c. housing and employment
b. employment and housing d. voting and employment
17. Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a. President Kennedy c. President Nixon
b. President Johnson d. President Eisenhower
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18. When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer,
the SNCC claimed that they had been
a. arrested. c. kidnapped.
b. murdered. d. relocated.
19. While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to
a. the Nation of Islam. c. SNCC.
b. the Black Panthers. d. CORE.
20. What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after Kings
assassination?
a. the Fair Housing Act
b. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
c. the Civil Rights Act of 1957
d. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
C. Document-Based Assessment
Directions: Use the excerpts from the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to answer the question that
follows on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points)
21. Analyze Primary Sources Explain how this section of the Fair Housing Act deals
with discrimination.
D. Critical Thinking
Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points each)
22. Analyze Cause and Effect What was the effect of the civil rights decisions of the
Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren? Who was affected?
23. Synthesize Information According to Thurgood Marshall, why was affirmative
action necessary?
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