Freedom Movements

Question 1

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 1

Ruling racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Question 2

“Doll Test”

Answer 2

A test on whether or not children preferred the white or black doll.

Question 3

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 3

After the Rosa Parks incident, African Americans began to boycott the Montgomery bus/transportation system in protest for equal rights in transportation.

Question 4

Little Rock Crisis

Answer 4

As 9 African American students were about to enter Central High School, they were prevented to enter by the governor.

Question 5

Strategies of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 5

Marches, peaceful protests, boycotts, etc.

Question 6

Birmingham Campaign (1963)

Answer 6

A strategy to attack the segregation system of the city and to bring awareness to the issue.

Question 7

Freedom Rides

Answer 7

After the Supreme Court decision to declare segregated transportation across state lines unconstitutional, many African Americans began to test it and many riots and attacks occurred.

Question 8

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 8

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Question 9

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 9

Outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests.

Question 10

Black Panthers

Answer 10

A political group with the ideology of black nationalism against things like police brutality.

Question 11

Kerner Commission Report

Answer 11

It attributed to the riots of economic opportunity for African Americans and Latinos, police brutality, racism, etc.

Question 12

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Answer 12

Prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on religion, race, national origin, and sex.

Question 13

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society - Goals and Implementation

Answer 13

LBJ’s goals in the Great Society were to end poverty, reduce crime, abolish inequality and improve the environment.

Question 14

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Answer 14

Busing programs that aimed to speed up racial integration of public schools.

Question 15

Regents of the University of CA v. Bakke

Answer 15

A Supreme Court Case in 1978 which said that a university’s admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for admission decision. This violated the 14th Amendment.

Question 16

National Women’s Organization

Answer 16

The largest feminist organization with over 500,000 members founded in 1966.

Question 17

Title IX

Answer 17

Prohibited sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity discrimination in any education program or in receiving financial assistance.

Question 18

Roe v. Wade

Answer 18

A Supreme Court decision that protects a women’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

Question 19

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 19

A proposed constitutional amendment that guarantees equal rights regardless of sex under the law but was never ratified.

Question 20

Cesar Chavez

Answer 20

A civil rights activist who fought for equality for Latinos.

Question 21

Harvey Milk

Answer 21

The first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.

Question 22

Stonewall Riots

Answer 22

Actions made by the gay community in response to a police raid.