19: Surprises

Question 1

What year was Roe v. Wade decided in the Supreme Court and what did the ruling say?

Answer 1

1973, the state could prohibit abortions only in the last three months of pregnancy

Question 2

This revolutionary wrote the book Soledad Brother while serving an indefinite sentence (already over 10 years) for a $70 robbery, and was later shot and killed by guards in prison (1971)

Answer 2

George Jackson

Question 3

The killing of George Jackson was the spark that caused a rebellion at this prison

Answer 3

Attica prison

Question 4

How many were killed by the military attack on the prisoners at Attica in 1971?

Answer 4

31 prisoners, 9 guards

Question 5

What caveats were found in the US Supreme Court ruling Procunier v. Martinez declaring mail censorship regulations of the California Department of Corrections unconstitutional?

Answer 5

Unless the censorship could be said to “further an important or substantial government interest” or where it was in the “substantial governmental interests of security, order, and rehabilitation”

Question 6

In 1969, Indians occupied this island, and were eventually removed by federal forces

Answer 6

Alcatraz

Question 7

When the Indian Historian Press was founded in 1969, it evaluated 400 textbooks in elementary and secondary schools and found what?

Answer 7

Not one of them accurately depicted the Indian

Question 8

In early 1973, Indians occupied this village and declared it liberated, refusing to leave until they became and “independent sovereign nation, Oglala Sioux Nation”

Answer 8

Wounded Knee

Question 9

As the Indians occupied Wounded Knee in 1973, the FBI and federal forces quickly set up a ________

Answer 9

Blockade

Question 10

The negotiated peace at Wounded Knee set up a commission which found that the broken 1868 treaty was valid, but superseded by the US’ power of what?

Answer 10

Eminent domain (power to take land)