chapter 29 social studies review the civil rights era

Question 1

feminist

Answer 1

activist for women’s rights

Question 2

sit-in

Answer 2

the act of protesting by sitting down, commonly used as a method of nonviolent protest

Question 3

interstate

Answer 3

moving between two or more states

Question 4

register

Answer 4

to enroll; to sign up

Question 5

poverty line

Answer 5

income level deemed necessary to acquire the necessities of life

Question 6

medicare

Answer 6

federal health insurance program for older people

Question 7

medicaid

Answer 7

federal-state health insurance program for low-income people

Question 8

great society

Answer 8

johnsons election campaign; medicare, medicaid

Question 9

new frontier

Answer 9

jfk election campaign

Question 10

discriminate

Answer 10

unfair treatment, particularly based on race

Question 11

segregation

Answer 11

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

Question 12

integrate

Answer 12

to bring races together

Question 13

boycott

Answer 13

to refuse to use

Question 14

civil disobedience

Answer 14

the refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust

Question 15

UFW

Answer 15

united farm workers

Question 16

betty friedan

Answer 16

wrote feminine mystique

Question 17

AIM

Answer 17

american indian movement

Question 18

james meredith

Answer 18

1st black student at university of missisippi

Question 19

sandra day o’connor

Answer 19

first female supreme court justice

Question 20

NAACP

Answer 20

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 21

HUD

Answer 21

housing for urban developement

Question 22

NOW

Answer 22

national organization for women

Question 23

cesar chavez

Answer 23

headed UFW; led protest for hispanics to get better pay and fewer hours

Question 24

malcolm X

Answer 24

new voice for some blacks

Question 25

emmett till

Answer 25

14-year old Black youth; viciously murdered after making normal comment to white woman

Question 26

medgar evers

Answer 26

(NAACP secretary) murdered in Jackson

Question 27

robert kennedy

Answer 27

(U.S. attorney general) asked CORE to stop rides

Question 28

john kennedy

Answer 28

president of us; helped civil rights movement; assasinated

Question 29

lyndon johnson

Answer 29

jfk VP; when jfk assasinated, he became P

Question 30

rosa parks

Answer 30

helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus

Question 31

dr martin luther king jr

Answer 31

social activist and Baptist minister

Question 32

thurgood marshall

Answer 32

lawyer for NAACP for brown v. board of edu

Question 33

name the 1896 court case that said “separate but equal” was okay

Answer 33

plessy v. ferguson

Question 34

name the 1954 court case that said “separate but equal” was unconstitutional

Answer 34

brown v. board of education (of topeka, kansas)

Question 35

name the 2 acts that president johnson signed during this era

Answer 35

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 & The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 36

in 1957 nine african american high school students tried to go to central high school in which city?

Answer 36

little rock, arkansas

Question 37

name the goal of the freedom riders

Answer 37

made sure southern states were abiding by desegragation laws

Question 38

where was dr martin luther king jr assasinated?

Answer 38

lorraine motel, memphis, tennessee

Question 39

give the date of john f kennedys assasination

Answer 39

November 22, 1963

Question 40

name the man who ran against kennedy in 1960

Answer 40

Richard Nixon