exam final 5

Question 1

Who is a CBS news reporter and is referred to as one of the most trusted names in news and said, “United States lost the Vietnam war.” ? / Did Johnson go for a second term?

Answer 1

Walker Cronkite/ no

Question 2

What case does middle class Americans both white and black say is outdated?

Answer 2

Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 2

Bobby Kennedy Jr tried to run for president but what happened to him?

Answer 2

Killed by Sirhan Sirhan

Question 2

Who was killed at Lorraine Hotel?

Answer 2

MLK Jr

Question 3

After Johnson did not go for a second term who becomes president?

Answer 3

Richard Nixon

Question 4

What are Grassroots Movements?

Answer 4

Movements where American people rise to make change in the country that started in the 1950s.

Question 4

13-year-old boy from Chicago Illinois was lynched in Mississippi by white guys who said he whistled at a white woman. The boys beat him up and the body was found in the Mississippi river and was unrecognizable and his mother had an open casket funeral so the people could see what was done to him. Some say after this event is what made people realize that racial issues must change. Who was this boy?

Answer 4

Emmit Till

Question 4

What replaced Plessy vs Ferguson?

Answer 4

Brown vs Board of Education

Question 5

What case orders all public school in USA to desegregate?

Answer 5

Brown vs Board of Education

Question 6

What pledge did the 101 southern congressman sign that said they are not abiding by Brown vs board of education and public schools remain segregated?

Answer 6

Massive Resistance

Question 7

Who seamstress and closed shop and waited for bus to arrive and gets on it and sat down and a white person wanted her seat and she refused to get up and the bus?

Answer 7

Rosa Parks

Question 8

Where did Rosa get arrested?

Answer 8

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 9

What is the advantage MLK has that Ghandi didn’t have?

Answer 9

tv

Question 9

MLK jr issued a response to rosa being arrested which was a nonviolence approach. Who did he get this type of approach from?

Answer 9

Ghandi

Question 10

What did Montgomery Alabama start to do when they started losing money because of the bus boycott?

Answer 10

Started to make city laws where black people didn’t have to give up seats to whites.

Question 10

MLK organizes a bus boycott which is what happens?

Answer 10

Where African Americans don’t use the transportation systems and instead carpool, walk, or use bikes until the law that black people must give up seats are changed.

Question 10

Who was a defender of white segregation in schools?

Answer 10

Orval Faubus

Question 11

What high school is one of the best public education schools?

Answer 11

Little Rock Central High School

Question 11

Who are the “ Little Rock 9”

Answer 11

African Americans that try to attend the high school.

Question 12

Because of the riots happening with Little Rock 9 what did Eisenhower do?

Answer 12

Got the national guard to go with the kids and protect them and the Little Rock students made all as in their classes.

Question 13

After it is proven that black people are not stupid what did Orval Faubus decide to do?

Answer 13

Decided to shut down all public schools.

Question 13

Which is the only state where the entire public education system schools stopped.

Answer 13

Arkansas

Question 13

True or False Schools started to let black students into white schools?

Answer 13

True