Chapter 28 "Civil Rights Movement"

Question 1

What had not changed after almost 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was established?

Answer 1

African Americans were still being treated unfairly

Question 2

NAAPC

Answer 2

National Association for Advancement of Colored People

Question 3

Integrate

Answer 3

African Americans and white people together

moving together

Question 4

Segregate

Answer 4

African Americans and white people kept apart

Separate

Question 5

Plessy v.s. Ferguson

Answer 5

An 1896 Supreme Court case in which the “separate-but-equal” doctrine was established

Question 6

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 6

NAACP attorney (lawyer) who led courtroom battles against segregation

Question 7

Brown v.s. board of Education

Answer 7

A Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated schools were unconstitutional

Question 8

Little Rock Nine

Answer 8

The first black students to integrate an Arkansas high school

Question 9

Rosa Parks

Answer 9

African American seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man and was thrown in jail

Question 10

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 10

A 13 month long boycott sparked by Rosa Parks in which African Americans (and some whites) stopped using the bus

Question 11

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 11

A young baptist minister who owned a reputation as a powerful speaker, and was also a civil rights leader

Question 12

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

Answer 12

the 35th President elected during 1960, youngest president ever

Question 13

Freedom Rides

Answer 13

Black and White bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South

Question 14

March on Washington

Answer 14

A massive demonstration for civil rights

Question 15

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 15

JFK’s Vice President who assumed role as president after he was assassinated

Question 16

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 16

The act banning public segregation and outlawing discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin

Question 17

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 17

A law that gave the government new powers to protect the African Americans’ voting rights – signed by Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 18

Great Society

Answer 18

Domestic Reforms
(Lyndon B. Johnson)

Question 19

Black Power

Answer 19

A movement that called for African American independence

Stokely Carmichael was one of many activists

Question 20

Malcolm X

Answer 20

A man that helped inspire the Black Power movement and believed in violence

Question 21

What was the New Frontier program?

Answer 21

A set of proposals including a higher minimum wage, new spending on the military and space program, new programs to help unemployed Americans, and tax cuts

Question 22

Cesar Chavez

Answer 22

A Hispanic worker who worked to improve conditions.
Created UFW in 1962
He went on numerous hunger strikes which is believed to contribute to his death

Question 23

United Farm Workers (UFW)

Answer 23

A union committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farm workers

Question 24

Betty Friedan

Answer 24

The author of The Feminine Mystique, which declared that many women wanted achievements beyond those of becoming a wife and mother

Question 25

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Answer 25

Founded by Betty Friedan

Made to fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women

Question 26

Shirley Chisholm

Answer 26

In 1968 she was elected to represent a New York City district in the House of Representatives
First African American elected to U.S. Congress

Question 27

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Answer 27

Outlawed all discrimination based on sex

Question 28

Phyllis Shlafly

Answer 28

A conservative activist who founded STOP ERA to prevent its ratification

Question 29

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Answer 29

(1968) to fight for Native American rights

Question 30

Disabled in Action (DIA)

Answer 30

Make people aware of