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Grade 8 Civil Rights
Who was assassinated in 1968 while he was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination?
  1. John F. Kennedy
  2. Martin Luther King
  3. Malcolm X
  4. Robert F. Kennedy
Grade 8 Civil Rights
Delegates at the Seneca Falls Convention compared the women's rights movement to the
  1. American struggle for independence from Britain.
  2. temperance movement.
  3. abolitionist movement.
  4. War of 1812.
Grade 8 Civil Rights
What is the name of the literary, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place in New York during the 1920s?
  1. The Hip Hop Culture Movement
  2. The Civil Rights Movement
  3. The Harlem Renaissance
  4. The Black Power Movement
Grade 8 Civil Rights
The women's rights movement
  1. was a complete failure.
  2. was not necessary because women always had the same rights as men.
  3. brought attention to women's need for education.
  4. quickly succeeded at everything it attempted to do.
Grade 8 Civil Rights
What is the name of the Alabama Governor who blocked entry to the University of Alabama to black students?
  1. Bull Connor
  2. George Wilburn
  3. George Wallace
  4. Thurgood Marshall
Grade 8 Civil Rights
The Ku Klux Klan
  1. was organized to prevent Blacks from asserting their equal rights.
  2. claimed to be the ghosts of Confederate soldiers.
  3. were responsible for beating and murdering hundreds of Blacks.
  4. all of the above.
Grade 8 Civil Rights
Social reformer who founded hull house in Chicago:
  1. W.E.B. DuBois
  2. Jane Addams
  3. "boss" Tweed
  4. William Randolph Hearst
Grade 8 Civil Rights
African-American leader who worked to achieve equality
  1. Booker T. Washington
  2. W.E.B. Dubois
  3. Jane Addams
  4. Joseph Pulitzer
Grade 8 Civil Rights
Muhammad Ali was striped of his boxing title and put in jail for what reason in the 1960's                                    ?
  1. Being to pretty and fast
  2. Hurting someone in a boxing match
  3. Comments he made about other boxers
  4. Refusing to go fight in Vietnam War
Grade 8 Civil Rights
What consitutional amendment was signed to end slavery?
  1. 4th
  2. 7th
  3. 13th
  4. 2nd
Grade 8 Civil Rights
Which of the following was organized to address the issue of equal rights for women?
  1. the Underground Railroad
  2. the Seneca Falls Convention
  3. the temperance movement
  4. the abolitionist movement
Grade 8 Civil Rights
Harriet Tubman was known as the "Moses" of her people because she...
  1. helped slaves escape from the South
  2. was instrumental in bringing about suffrage reform
  3. advocated emigration to Africa for Black people
  4. prganized mass civil rights demonstrations
  5. traveled as a lay minister preaching the gospel
Grade 8 Civil Rights
Separation of white and black people:
  1. racial discrimination
  2. segregation
  3. mass culture
  4. leisure
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