Civil Rights and Equal Citizenship · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Paper rights made real

History · The Modern World · ages 15-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

    • Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in 1955
    • A court ordering buses to close down
    • Bus drivers demanding higher wages

  2. What is the difference between a right on paper and a right in practice?

    • There is never any difference at all
    • Laws can promise equality while officials and mobs still block it
    • Paper rights are always stronger than real ones

  3. Name one law or ruling won after years of campaigning.

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • A law banning all public marches
    • A ruling that votes need property tests

  4. Why did campaigning continue after the 1964 and 1965 Acts passed?

    • The laws enforced themselves everywhere at once
    • Laws need enforcing at schools, jobs, and polling stations
    • Activists had nothing else to do

  5. Boycotts hit shop tills while lawsuits attacked statutes. Why use both?

    • Each method forced a different authority to move
    • One method alone always wins faster
    • Courts and shops are the same target

  6. Apartheid protests echoed the same playbook of boycotts, marches, and sanctions.

    Circle one:   True   False

  7. A new town faces segregated facilities. Its campaigners can only afford one opening move. Which fits the pattern best?

    • A single angry speech with no follow-up
    • Wait silently for attitudes to drift
    • A disciplined boycott aimed where it hurts, building toward law

  8. A mayor says passing an equality law ends the struggle the same day. What does Montgomery teach?

    • Boycotts always fail within weeks
    • Courts never follow public pressure
    • Rulings plus patience and pressure turn paper into practice
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  1. Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in 1955 · One refusal sparked a year-long boycott that broke the bus company.
  2. Laws can promise equality while officials and mobs still block it · Segregated schools and blocked votes showed promises alone change nothing.
  3. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 · The 1964 Act plus the 1965 Voting Act were the harvest of marching and jailing.
  4. Laws need enforcing at schools, jobs, and polling stations · Tests, taxes, and terror at the polls had to be beaten in practice too.
  5. Each method forced a different authority to move · Economic pain moved wallets while cases moved judges, so each opened a different lock.
  6. True · Moral claims became law by the same tools on both continents.
  7. A disciplined boycott aimed where it hurts, building toward law · Campaign first, law second, enforcement always: aimed patience stacks small wins.
  8. Rulings plus patience and pressure turn paper into practice · A year of sore feet plus a court ruling together moved what neither alone could.
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