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Question 1

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer 1

Court ruled that a defendant in a state court had the right to a lawyer.

Question 2

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 2

Protected voters from discriminatory practices

Question 3

Immigration act of 1965

Answer 3

Ended the system established in the 1920s that gave preference to Northern European immigrants

Question 4

The 14th amendment ensures…

Answer 4

No State shall deprive any person or life, liberty or property with due process of law

Question 5

Alan Shepard

Answer 5

First American in space

Question 6

Earl warren

Answer 6

Chief Justice of the US issued several rulings reshaped politics & society

Question 7

John Glenn

Answer 7

First American to orbit earth

Question 8

Neil Armstrong

Answer 8

First human to walk on the moon

Question 9

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 9

Soviet Union made missiles & US threatened nuclear war, both agreed to stop.

Question 10

Bay of pigs

Answer 10

Fidel Castro had overthrown the corrupt Cuban dictator in 1959 and created strong ties with the Soviet Union

Question 11

SNCC- student nonviolent coordinating committee

Answer 11

They were part of the civil rights movement made up of mostly African Americans and some Caucasians

Question 12

CORE- congress of racial equality

Answer 12

Founded by James farmer and George houser. Used sit ins to desegregate restaurants that refused to serve African Americans

Question 13

Southern manifesto

Answer 13

It denounced the supreme courts ruling as “a clear abuse of judicial power” and pleaded to use all lawful means to reverse the decision

Question 14

Black panthers

Answer 14

Called for an end to racial oppression and for control of major institutions in the African Americans community

Question 15

Black Muslims

Answer 15

Preached black nationalism.

Question 16

Malcolm X

Answer 16

A symbol of the black power movement, he thought violence was the answer

Question 17

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 17

He used his position as a minister to preach his message of nonviolent resistance

Question 18

Fannie Lou Hammer

Answer 18

SNCC organizer and sharecroppers who was evicted from her farm after registering to vote

Question 19

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 19

From 1939 to 1961 the NAACP chief council and director of its legal defense and educational fund African American attorney

Question 20

Rosa Parks

Answer 20

She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. That was the spark that launched the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955

Question 21

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 21

The leader of SNCC in 1966

Question 22

Linda Brown

Answer 22

An African American girl who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas, because of her race.

Question 23

Ella baker

Answer 23

Former NAACP official and SCLC executive director, urged students to establish the student nonviolent coordinating committee in 1960

Question 24

Le Duc Tho

Answer 24

North Vietnam’s representative he entered secret negotiations with Kissinger

Question 25

Daniel Ellsberg

Answer 25

He leaked the classified documents known as the pentagon papers.