civil rights movement

Question 1

Great Migration

Answer 1

beginning during World War I, the mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and Midwest in order to take jobs in industry, attempt to exercise their civil liberties, and leave discrimination / segregation / Jim Crow South

Question 2

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 2

the 1954 Supreme Court ruling declaring that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Question 3

Montgomery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks

Answer 3

a 1955 boycott that resulted in the integration of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama

Question 4

Student Sit-Ins

Answer 4

a civil rights protest in which student protesters sat down in a public place and refuse to move, thereby causing the business to lose customers and force integration

Question 5

Freedom Rides

Answer 5

civil rights protests in which Black people and White people rode interstate buses together in 1961 to test whether southern states were complying with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation on interstate transport

Question 6

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 6

a landmark act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin; the most important civil rights law since Reconstruction

Question 7

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 7

an act of Congress outlawing literacy tests and other tactics that had long been used to deny African Americans the right to vote

Question 8

MLK Jr.

Answer 8

philosophies: Integration through non-violent resistance; civil disobedience.
tactics: Non-violent methods of protest

Question 9

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 9

philosophies: Black Power: demanding Civil Rights here and now by taking control of decision-making processes
tactics: Use non-violence as a tactic, not a philosophy; Politically organize to and be in positions of power

Question 10

Malcolm X

Answer 10

philosophies: Black Nationalism:establishing a separate black society from a white one.
tactics: Promote self-defense; integration not possible; organize to control communities, politicians, economy, etc…

Question 11

Black Panthers

Answer 11

philosophies: Self-determination for the Black Community;
tactics: Promote self-defense; provide services for Black Community; carried weapons / law books to protect against police violence

Question 12

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 12

Held on July 19 and 20, 1848, the gathering of supporters of women’s rights that launched the women’s suffrage (right to vote) movement

Question 13

19th amendment

Answer 13

A constitutional change ratified in 1920 declaring that women have the right to vote in state and national elections

Question 14

gender roles for women through 1950’s

Answer 14

Traditional gendered roles that included being the care-giver / care-taker of the home; Old traditional values included being pius, submissive, pure, and domestic

Question 15

“The Feminine Mystique”

Answer 15

Author Betty Friedan exposed many middle-class women’s dissatisfaction in her book The Feminine Mystique, describing women who led supposedly fulfilling lives through their marriage, home, and family, but who were ultimately discontent. Its impact would cause women to begin to question the care-taker myth as being the only life / role for women in American society.

Question 16

Roe v. Wade

Answer 16

The Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that the “right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” As supporters asserted that women have the right to control their bodies.

Question 17

role of women 1980’s onward

Answer 17

Women were earning and taking on high positions across numerous positions in society that had traditionally been held only bey men. However, the increase in the amount of women in the workforce led to the development of challenges / obstacles not foreseen by many who worked AND were mothers. They felt that they had not been fully prepared by their own mothers or other feminists for the challenges that came with being both a career professional and a mother.

Question 18

Lavender Scare

Answer 18

Time period in the 50s and into the 60s where the Government and other employers discriminated against those that identified as gay here they could be excluded from work or fired from their jobs.

Question 19

Stonewall Riots

Answer 19

Riots in 1969 by customers of a gay bar in New York in response to a police raid; the clash marked the beginning of the gay rights movement

Question 20

“model minority”

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The view held by White Americans that Asians were the “model minority” because they were viewed as hard workers who amassed success without protest or demand. Some people pointed to Asian Americans’ prosperity as proof that ethnic differences were no barrier to success in American society.

Question 21

redress (asain-american history)

Answer 21

Redress means the righting of wrongs. For the Japanese-American community, it meant that the U.S. government would eventually announce a formal apology for the forced internment of Japanese-American citizens during WW2 that would eventually result in the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.

Question 22

1988 civil liberties act

Answer 22

Congress formally apologized for internment in 1988 and issued $20,000 in reparations to each survivor.

Question 23

American Indian Movement

Answer 23

a movement formed in 1968 by Indigenous activists to protest historic and current unfair treatment towards Native Americans.

Question 24

methods of american indians to gain attention

Answer 24

Consider events like the Longest Walk, Occupation of Alcatraz Island, Trail of Broken Treaties Protest, and Occupation of the small town Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge Reservation.

Question 25

Lainos faced discrimination with

Answer 25

Employment
Wages
Educational Barriers (Language)

Question 26

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

Answer 26

United Farm Workers to unionize field laborers in order to improve working conditions, increased wages, and expanded benefits.

Question 27

Rehabilitation Act in 1973

Answer 27

Banned federal employment discrimination against those with disabilities as well as banned funding for federal programs that discriminate against this group.

Question 28

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Answer 28

a law passed by Congress in 1990 requiring better public access (transportation & access to buildings ie. ramps) and improved education for people with disabilities