history test 2

Question 0

Firsted passed

• -Formally abolished slavery in the United States
• -However, it did not grant Afircan Americans quality

Answer 0

13 Admendments (1865)

Question 1

doctrine that frees salves and Abrahma wrote it, stated in the south

Answer 1

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 2

14 Admendmetns (1868) – Secound passed
Granted citizenship to tell “all perks s born in naturalized in the United States”
–Forbids states from denying any Perkins “life, libert, or property, without due process of law” or to “ deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”

Answer 2

14 Admendmetns (1868)

Question 3

Last passed
–The 15 Admendment to the Constitution granted –African American men the right to vote. The right shall not be denied by any state on the account of race, color or previous condition of servitude

Answer 3

15 Admendments (1870) –

Question 4

–Laws designed to separate the African Amercian population and the white population. Kept African Amercians as second class citizens

Answer 4

Jim Crow Laws

Question 5

–Racial segregation in public facilities is “separate but equal”

Answer 5

Please V. Ferguson (1896)

Question 6

–Overruled Plessy V. Ferguson

Separate is NOT equal, and public schools should not be segregated

Answer 6

Brown v board of education

Question 7

–Was written to ensure that all American citizens could vote, ending literacy and comprehension tests

Answer 7

Civil Rights Act 1957

Question 8

–Established a federal inspection of voter registration polls
Introduced penalties for anyone whose prevents someone from excercising their right to vote
State rights

Answer 8

Civil Rights Act 1960

Question 9

–Prohibits discrimination in all public places
Also prohibits employment discrimination
Voting rights act 1965
Designed to enforce the 13th and 14th amendments
Expansion of voting rights
Took a long time to pass the voting rights

Answer 9

Civil rights acts of 1964

Question 10

Who took over after Truman?

Answer 10

Dwight D. Eisenhower-served as President From (1953-1961)
Earned prestige as a commanding General of the Forces in Europe During WWII
Helped obtain the truce in Korea and worked to ease Tensions of the Cold War during his two terms

Question 11

The nuclear Arms Race-

Answer 11

• -MAD- Mutual Assured Desturction
• -The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had enough nuclear weapons to completely destroy each other
• -During the 1950s – Amercain Believed that there was a “bomber gap”- this was false

Question 12

Improvements in Society

Answer 12

–Interstate highway 1956 - why was this important?
–Because people could drive, live in the suburbs
Civil rights - civil rights act of 1957

Question 13

John F. Kennedy v. Nixon

Answer 13

• -1st televised presidential debate 1960
• -Those who watched believed that Kenndey won, those who listened to the debate on the radio, believes Nixon won
• -“The New Frontier”
• -“Ask not…..”

Question 14

Sputnik - 1957

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Answer 14

The space race

Question 15

Fidel Castro - 1959
1960 president Eisenhower authorized the CIA to recruit 1,400 Cuban Exiles living in Miami to help overthrow the new regime
1961- u.s. Government ended diplomatic relations with Cuba
John F. Kennedy became president of the United States at this time
April 17th, 1961- The invasion was a disaster

Answer 15

Bay of Pigs

Question 16

Nuclear wore heads were placed on Cuba
High attentions
Soviet Union and U.S.

Answer 16

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 17

–Things making it go faster and making people buy it

Answer 17

Planned

Question 18

Idea family

Mother, Dad, Dog, Boy or Girl

Answer 18

Nuclear family

Question 19

–All the houses look the same

Answer 19

Levitown

Question 20

The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is good for the economy

Answer 20

Consumerism