Practise MYP History questions on 11.1 Civil Rights Struggles and review the explanations to check your understanding.
Use these questions for topic practice and to find ideas you want to revisit in your notes or lessons.
What was the primary reason the ANC formed the armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961?
Which event in 1957 served as a prominent example of state-level resistance to federal desegregation orders in the United States?
What was the primary purpose of the 1971 Bantu Homelands Consolidation Act in South Africa?
Why was media coverage of nonviolent protests particularly effective during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement?
True or False: The federal government in the U.S. and the state/local governments in the South always worked together to support civil rights.
To facilitate the first multiracial elections in 1994
To replace the PAC's influence in the township protests
To enforce the restrictions of the Group Areas Act
Because peaceful protest had been banned by the government
The Greensboro sit-ins
The integration of Central High School by the Little Rock Nine
The arrest of Rosa Parks
The Freedom Riders' protest
To grant full national citizenship to Black residents
To abolish the use of the reference book
To desegregate residential zones in cities
To expand forced removals by assigning families to designated territories
It allowed protesters to communicate in secret codes
It created national pressure by showing brutality against peaceful demonstrators
It convinced state governments to ignore federal mandates
It replaced the need for legal challenges in the Supreme Court
True
False
