Lesson Y9-U01-L06

Y9-U01-L06 Did the Civil Rights Movement Succeed Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 14

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The 20 questions

  1. On what date did President Lyndon B. Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act?

    • 5 December 1955
    • 4 April 1968
    • 2 July 1964
    • 28 August 1963

  2. Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

    • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • John F. Kennedy
    • Abraham Lincoln

  3. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 make illegal across the USA?

    • Literacy tests given to voters in Northern states and in the large cities there
    • Segregation in public places and discrimination in jobs because of race
    • Membership of the Ku Klux Klan and its open meetings in the Southern towns
    • Owning land and property by Black Americans anywhere in the Southern states

  4. Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 described as a national law?

    • It was only enforced in the largest cities
    • It was passed by the Supreme Court in Washington
    • It was written by all the states together
    • It applied to every state, including the South

  5. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?

    • It made voting compulsory for all adult citizens in every state of the Union each year
    • It banned literacy tests and other tricks used to stop Black Americans voting
    • It gave all women the right to vote for the first time anywhere in the United States
    • It abolished the poll tax in every single state at once, without any exceptions at all

  6. Which march in March 1965 helped push through the Voting Rights Act?

    • The Selma to Montgomery marches
    • The March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial
    • The Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955
    • The Children's Crusade in Birmingham

  7. Which 1954 Supreme Court ruling declared segregated schools illegal?

    • Brown v. Board of Education
    • Browder v. Gayle, which challenged bus segregation in Montgomery in 1956
    • Dred Scott v. Sandford, which denied citizenship to enslaved Black people in 1857
    • Plessy v. Ferguson, which made separate but equal facilities legal in 1896

  8. When did President Kennedy propose a national civil rights law?

    • April 1968
    • July 1964
    • June 1963
    • November 1963

  9. What did ending legal segregation NOT do for most Black Americans?

    • Make segregated buses and shops illegal
    • Allow Black Americans to attend the same schools
    • Give Black Americans the right to serve on juries
    • End poverty and give them jobs and higher pay

  10. Why did the 1964 Act barely touch segregation in Northern cities?

    • Northern cities had already banned all segregation by law in the year 1950
    • Northern segregation was limited to a few schools only, in a handful of towns
    • Northern segregation was by housing and custom, not by law
    • Northern cities refused to recognise any federal law passed by Congress at all

  11. Which city saw major riots in 1965 that showed continuing unrest?

    • Montgomery, Alabama
    • Selma, Alabama
    • Watts, Los Angeles
    • Memphis, Tennessee

  12. When and where was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated?

    • 2 July 1964, in Washington DC
    • 21 February 1965, in Harlem
    • 4 April 1968, in Memphis
    • 10 May 1963, in Birmingham

  13. Why did frustration at slow change feed more radical movements such as the Black Panthers?

    • The Voting Rights Act had banned peaceful protest across the USA in every state
    • Many felt that new laws and non-violence were not enough to end inequality
    • The Civil Rights Act had made non-violence illegal in every city in the nation
    • Black leaders had been ordered by the government to form the Panthers in 1966

  14. What happened to Black voter registration in the South after the Voting Rights Act?

    • It only rose in the Northern states
    • It stayed exactly the same as before 1965
    • It rose sharply within a few years
    • It fell to zero in every Southern state

  15. What changed in white public opinion during the 1960s?

    • A growing number of white Americans came to disapprove of segregation
    • White Americans began to demand the return of the Jim Crow laws in every state
    • White Americans stopped reading newspapers and watching news about civil rights after 1964
    • White Americans came to support segregation more strongly after the laws passed

  16. What does Source A suggest the movement had and had not achieved by 1967?

    • It had achieved nothing at all on civil rights during the whole decade
    • It had ended legal segregation, but millions were still trapped in poverty
    • It had won the vote but not any change to the law on segregation at all
    • It had ended poverty but not legal segregation, which remained across the South

  17. How does Source B's view of the movement differ from Source A's?

    • Source B says the 1964 Act was never passed by Congress, despite strong public support
    • Source B stresses lasting legal change; Source A stresses unfinished poverty
    • Source B says King had personally written the whole 1964 Act with his own team of advisers
    • Source B says the movement was a complete failure in every way that really mattered

  18. Why might King, in Source A, emphasise the limits of the movement?

    • He had been asked by the government to downplay the 1964 Act in public speeches
    • He lived through the struggle and wanted to push for further reform
    • He had never seen the Civil Rights Act for himself because he was in prison
    • He wanted to prove that the movement had failed completely in every respect

  19. Why is an all-or-nothing verdict on the Civil Rights Movement weak?

    • It ignores either the lasting legal change or the limits that remained
    • It only matters which side a historian was born on and what they believe
    • It is weak only because the movement was not finished by the end of 1968
    • It is always illegal for a historian to reach any verdict at all on the past

  20. What does it mean to say the 1964 Act was 'significant'?

    • It was passed by a large number of people in one day in the Capitol
    • It was the first law ever written about civil rights in America
    • It mattered a great deal, changed lives and the change lasted
    • It was reported in many newspapers at the time across the nation

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