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Civil Rights Unit Test

Directions #1: Circle true or false

1.True or False: Civil Rights are basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the
government.

Directions #2-19: Select the correct answer

2. What is Womens Suffrage?

a) The fight for womens right to own property
b) The fight for womens right to vote
c) The fight to for African Americans to vote
d) The fight to end slavery

3. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

a) First womens right convention held in the United States
b) First womens rights convention held in Britain
c) Place where women protested the right to vote and were arrested
d) Convention where the 19th amendment was ratified

4. Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?

a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Emmeline Pankhurst
c) Alice Paul
d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

5. Susan B Anthony was arrested for doing what?

a) Writing the Declaration of Sentiments
b) Creating the National Womens Party
c) Picketing the White House
d) Voting in a presidential election

6. Alice Paul was influenced by the British suffragettes lead by who?

a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b) Lucretia Mott
c) Emmeline Pankhurst
d) Susan B. Anthony
7. Alice Paul left the National American Womens Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to
create what organization?
a) National African American Suffrage Association
b) National Womens Party
c) Social Womens and Political Union
d) Womens suffrage Party

8. What amendment gave Women the right to vote?

a) 17th
b) 18th
c) 19th
d) 20th

9. What is segregation?
a) The act of setting someone apart from other people
b) A class of rights that protect individuals freedom
c) Being included within a group or structure
d) The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities

10. What major event did Rosa Parks spark when she was arrested for not giving up her
seat to a white man?
a) Augusta Movement
b) Montgomery Bus Boycott
c) March on Washington
d) Poor Peoples Campaign

11. What was the name of the speech that Martin Luther King Jr. gave which he calls for
an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights?
a) Peace and Love
b) Equality for All
c) Fight the Power
d) I Have a Dream

12. What civil rights organization (*that we discussed in class*) fought against prejudice
and fought for better treatment of people of color?
a) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
b) National Urban League
c) American Civil Liberties Union
d) Human Rights Campaign

13. What is another term for anti-black LAWS?

a) Ku Klux Klan
b) Freedom Riders
c) Jim Crow
d) John Brown
14. Aformofdirectactionthatinvolvesoneormorepeopleoccupyinganareafora
protest,oftentopromotepolitical,social,oreconomicchangeis
a)Alaw
b)Ahypothesis
c)SitinProtest
d)Segregation

15. Oppressionis
a)Prolongedcruelorunjusttreatmentorcontrol
b)AtypeoflawthatwasunderJimCrow
c)Atoolusedduringanexperiment
d)Noneoftheabove

16. VotingRightsgave
a)TherighttotalktoAfricanAmericansaboutvoting
b)Therighttousefreedomofspeech
c)Therighttobeararms
d)Therighttovote

17. TheeggcrackingActivitythatwedidshowedusthat
a)Weareallthesame,withnodifferenceswithonanother
b)Wearedifferent,butthesame
c)Wehavenosimilaritiesbetweenoneanother
d)Noneoftheabove

18. A violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd is called a

a) Amendment
b) Segregation Law
c) Jim Crow Law
d) Riot

19. How is a Section 504 plan considered a civil right?

a) It allows discrimination for students with disabilities
b) It requires the needs of all students with any disabilities to be met as sufficiently as
the needs of the non-disabled are met.
c) It helps students with only physical impairments
d) It helps students with only visual impairments
20. Open Ended
Directions: Write a response to the following question:
How does Section 504 relate to our historys past civil rights movements?
Provide an example using your knowledge of womens suffrage and the African
American civil rights movement.

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Civil Rights Unit Test: TEACHER ANSWER GUIDE

1.True or False: Civil Rights are basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the
government

2. What is Womens Suffrage?

a) The fight for womens right to own property
b) The fight for womens right to vote
c) The fight to for African Americans to vote
d) The fight to end slavery

3. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

a) First women's rights convention held in the United States
b) First womens rights convention held in Britain
c) Place where women protested the right to vote and were arrested
d) Convention where the 19th amendment was ratified

4. Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?

a) Susan B. Anthony
b) Emmeline Pankhurst
c) Alice Paul
d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

5. Susan B Anthony was arrested for doing what?

a) Writing the Declaration of Sentiments
b) Creating the National Womens Party
c) Picketing the White House
d) Voting in a presidential election

6. Alice Paul was influenced by the British suffragettes lead by who?

a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b) Lucretia Mott
c) Emmeline Pankhurst
d) Susan B. Anthony

7. Alice Paul left the National American Womens Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to
create what organization?
a) National African American Suffrage Association
b) National Womens Party
c) Social Womens and Political Union
d) Womens suffrage Party
8. What amendment gave Women the right to vote?
a) 17th
b) 18th
c) 19th
d) 20th

9. What is segregation?
a. The act of setting someone apart from other people
b. A class of rights that protect individuals freedom
c. Being included within a group or structure
d. The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities

10. What major event did Rosa Parks spark when she was arrested for not giving up her
seat to a white man?
b. Augusta Movement
c. Montgomery Bus Boycott
d. March on Washington
e. Poor Peoples Campaign

11) What was the name of the speech that Martin Luther King Jr. gave which he calls for
an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights?
a. Peace and Love
b. Equality for All
c. Fight the Power
d. I Have a Dream

12) What civil rights organization (*that we discussed in class*) fought against prejudice
and fought for better treatment of people of color?
a. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
b. National Urban League
c. American Civil Liberties Union
d. Human Rights Campaign

13) What is another term for anti-black LAWS?

a. Ku Klux Klan
b. Freedom Riders
c. Jim Crow
d. John Brown

14) A form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a
protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change is
a. A law
b. A hypothesis
c. Sit-in Protest
d. Segregation

15) Oppressionis
a. Prolongedcruelorunjusttreatmentorcontrol.
b. AtypeoflawthatwasunderJimCrow
c. Atoolusedduringanexperiment
d. Noneoftheabove

16) VotingRightsgave
a. TherighttotalktoAfricanAmericansaboutvoting
b. Therighttousefreedomofspeech
c. Therighttobeararms
d. Therighttovote

17) TheeggcrackingActivitythatwedidshowedusthat
a. Weareallthesame,withnodifferenceswithonanother
b. Wearedifferent,butthesame
c. Wehavenosimilaritiesbetweenoneanother
d. Noneoftheabove

18) Aviolentdisturbanceofthepeacebyacrowdiscalleda
a. Amendment
b. SegregationLaw
c. JimCrowLaw
d. Riot

19) How is a Section 504 plan considered a civil right?

1. It allows discrimination for students with disabilities
2. It requires the needs of all students with any disabilities to be met as
sufficiently as the needs of the non-disabled are met.
3. It helps students with only physical impairments
4. It helps students with only visual impairments
20. Open Ended
Directions: Write a response to the following question:
How does Section 504 relate to our historys past civil rights movements?
Provide an example using your knowledge of womens suffrage and the African
American civil rights movement.

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__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

Rubric for open-ended question:

Scor 3 2 1 0
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Students response makes Students Students Student

a clear connection between response makes response does not does not
section 504 and our the connection make the answer
historys past civil rights between Section connection question.
movements by explaining 504 and our between Section
how both situations fight historys past 504 and our
for equal rights among civil rights historys past
people and gives an movement but civil rights
example using either does not give an movements.
womens suffrage or the example.
African American civil
rights movement.