U.S. Citizenship Test Practice: Civil Rights Movement and Equal Rights
- Civil Rights Movement and Equal Rights
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
These questions cover the long struggle for equal rights, from the women's rights movement of the 1800s to the civil rights laws of the 1960s. Tip: remember the year of each key law and court case together with what it changed.
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Question 1
In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, this woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, which led to a long bus boycott. Who was she?
Correct answer: C
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, and her arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth lived in the 1800s.
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Question 2
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separating public school students by race was unconstitutional. What is this case called?
Correct answer: B
Brown v. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the earlier case that had allowed "separate but equal."
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Question 3
Which federal law from 1964 banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin in jobs and in public places?
Correct answer: A
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed this kind of discrimination at work and in places such as hotels and restaurants. The Voting Rights Act followed a year later and focused on voting.
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Question 4
A 1965 federal law was passed to end practices like unfair literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting. What is it called?
Correct answer: D
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other tricks that had blocked Black citizens from voting. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863.
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Question 5
In 1848, a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, helped start the organized movement for which cause?
Correct answer: B
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first large women's rights convention in the United States. Women won the right to vote nationwide in 1920 with the 19th Amendment.
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Question 6
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. At which event did he give it?
Correct answer: D
More than 200,000 people joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, where King gave the speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Question 7
In 1967, who became the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Correct answer: A
Thurgood Marshall had earlier won Brown v. Board of Education as a lawyer. He served on the Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991.
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Question 8
After Reconstruction, many Southern states passed laws that kept Black and white people separate in schools, trains and restaurants. What were these laws called?
Correct answer: C
Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the South for decades. The civil rights movement and new federal laws in the 1950s and 1960s ended them.
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Question 9
Which method did Martin Luther King, Jr. use and teach to fight segregation?
Correct answer: C
King led marches, boycotts and sit-ins that stayed nonviolent even when protesters were attacked. This approach won wide public support for civil rights laws.
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Question 10
Which law from 1990 protects people with disabilities from discrimination at work and in public places?
Correct answer: A
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires equal treatment and access, for example ramps and accessible entrances. The GI Bill helped veterans after World War II.
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