# Civil rights movements

> Grade 9: equal rights for all, Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr, peaceful protest, laws that ended segregation.

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- Subject: History & geography
- Level: Grade 9
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. What does the term "civil rights" mean? (Equal legal and social treatment for all citizens / Rules that only apply to soldiers / Special privileges for wealthy citizens / The right to avoid paying taxes)
   Answer: Equal legal and social treatment for all citizens
2. The idea of civil rights says that people should be treated fairly whatever their race.
   Answer: True
3. Which document, adopted by the UN in 1948, lists rights for all people? (Declaration of Independence / Magna Carta / Treaty of Versailles / Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
   Answer: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
4. In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery for refusing to do what? (Give up her bus seat / Leave a shop / Pay her bus fare / Sit in the front row of a cinema)
   Answer: Give up her bus seat
5. What name is given to the 1955-56 protest in which people in Montgomery avoided the buses?
   Answer: The Montgomery bus boycott
6. Roughly how long did the Montgomery bus boycott last? (About one month / About one week / About one year / About ten years)
   Answer: About one year
7. Which young minister became a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott? (Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass / Martin Luther King Jr. / Nelson Mandela)
   Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
8. At the 1963 March on Washington, King gave which famous speech? (Equal for All / I Have a Dream / The Road to Freedom / We Shall Overcome)
   Answer: I Have a Dream
9. Which Indian leader's use of nonviolent protest inspired Martin Luther King Jr?
   Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
10. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that protest should be nonviolent.
   Answer: True
11. Which of these is an example of peaceful protest? (A silent march with signs / Blocking roads with weapons / Fighting with police / Smashing shop windows)
   Answer: A silent march with signs
12. Where did the 1960 Greensboro sit-in protesters sit? (At a whites-only lunch counter / In a courtroom / In a school library / On a city bus)
   Answer: At a whites-only lunch counter
13. What does "segregation" mean? (Giving everyone the vote / Keeping groups of people separate / Moving to a new country / Sharing resources equally)
   Answer: Keeping groups of people separate
14. Which 1964 US law banned discrimination in public places and jobs? (Civil Rights Act / Clean Air Act / Homestead Act / Patriot Act)
   Answer: Civil Rights Act
15. Which 1965 US law protected the right of Black Americans to vote?
   Answer: The Voting Rights Act
16. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
   Answer: False