chapter 9

Question 1

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

Answer 1

de jure segregation is constitutional if separate but equal

Question 2

Sweatt v Painter (1950)

Answer 2

Texas violated 14th amendment with a separate but unequal black law school

Question 3

Brown v Board of Education (1954)

Answer 3

separate but equal was abolished

Question 4

Hernandez v Texas (1954)

Answer 4

ended exclusion of Mexican Americans from trial jury

Question 5

Baker v Carr (1962)

Answer 5

one man one vote, electoral districts represent population

Question 6

Reynolds v Sims (1964)

Answer 6

one man one vote is the only constitutional thing under equal protection clause of 14th amendment

Question 7

Tinker v Des Moines School District (1969)

Answer 7

ruled wearing black armbands in school to protest Vietnam War was protected

Question 8

Mapp v Ohio (1961)

Answer 8

info obtained in violation of 14th amendment cannot be used in court

Question 9

Gideon v Wainwright (1963)

Answer 9

all criminals have a right to a lawyer whether they can afford one

Question 10

Escobedo v Illinois (1964)

Answer 10

every accused lawbreaker had to be offered access to a lawyer before being questioned, all evidence of suspect before lawyer can be used against them

Question 11

Miranda v Arizona (1966)

Answer 11

criminal informed of 5th and 6th amendment rights before being questioned

Question 12

Engel v Vitale (1962)

Answer 12

ruled school prayer was a violation of the 1st amendment, attempt by governmental body to promote religion

Question 13

Abington v Schempp (1963)

Answer 13

bible reading in school violated the 1st amendment

Question 14

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 14

African American lawyer from Baltimore, head of legal team

Question 15

Earl Warren

Answer 15

appointed Brown decision, chief justice of supreme court

Question 16

Orval Faubus

Answer 16

Arkansas governor that blocked desegregation

Question 17

SNCC

Answer 17

lead by Ella Baker, helped young activists to establish civil rights organization

Question 18

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 18

banned segregation in public accommodations

Question 19

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Answer 19

gave the US power to investigate violations of civil rights

Question 20

James Meredith

Answer 20

tried to go to Ole Miss, won case that ordered Ole Miss to desegregate

Question 21

Medgar Evans

Answer 21

helped with efforts to desegregate Ole Miss

Question 22

George Wallace

Answer 22

Alabama Governor who was pro segregation, tried to block integration in Alabama schools

Question 23

Freedom Summer

Answer 23

campaign project for SNCC, organized voter education projects

Question 24

Voting Rights Act

Answer 24

banned literacy tests

Question 25

24th amendment

Answer 25

banned poll tax

Question 26

Kerner Commission

Answer 26

concluded that long term racial discrimination was single most important cause of violence

Question 27

Black Panthers

Answer 27

formed by Newton and Seale, entered state capitol in Sacramento with guns to protest attempts to restrict their right to bear arms

Question 28

affirmative action

Answer 28

established by Nixon administration, close economic gap between black and white people, schools followed federal lead

Question 29

Lester Maddox

Answer 29

closed his restaurant instead of complying with 1964 Civil Rights Act

Question 30

New Frontier

Answer 30

Kennedy’s proposed plan

Question 31

Warren Commission

Answer 31

commission on assassination, established by Lyndon B Johnson

Question 32

Warren Court

Answer 32

led by chief justice Earl Warren, supported civil rights, voting rights, and personal privacies

Question 33

Barry Goldwater

Answer 33

republican candidate in 1964 election, lost to LBJ

Question 34

Great Society

Answer 34

proposed plan by LBJ

Question 35

War on Poverty

Answer 35

helped train the jobless, educate the uneducated