Rights Revolution/War on Poverty

Question 1

WOmens rights organization founded to fight discrimination against women

Answer 1

National Organization for Women (NOW) 1966

Question 2

Site of the 1890 massacer of Sioux by federal troops that was occupied by members of the American Indian Movement in 1973. AIM insisted that the govt honor treaty obligations of the past

Answer 2

Wounded KNee 1973

Question 3

Best selling book Betty Friedan that challenged the women to move beyond the drudgery of being a suburban housewife

Answer 3

The Feminine Mystique 1963

Question 4

Riot at a gay bar in NYC that was periodically raided by police. The riot helped trigger the gay rights movement.

Answer 4

Stonewall Riot 1969

Question 5

Health insurance program for the poor, provide states with money to buy health care for people on welfare

Answer 5

Medicaid 1965

Question 6

Health insurance program for the elderly and disabled providing government payment for health care supplied by private doctors and hospitals

Answer 6

Medicare 1965

Question 7

Organizaiton formed in TX by Mexican American veterns to overcome discrimination and provide support for vetrans and all Hispanics. Led the fight to end the segregation of Hispanic children in schools throughout the west and southwest

Answer 7

American GI Forum 1948

Question 8

Mexican American equivalent of the Civil RIghts movement for Mexican American. The movement included student demonstrated to presss the bilingal, the hiring more Chicano, and the creation of Chicano studies programs

Answer 8

Chicano Movement

Question 9

Law that forbids gender based pay discrimination of people performing substantially equal work for the same employer

Answer 9

Equal Pay Act 1963

Question 10

Amendment to the US Constitution giving women equal rights under the law. ALthough the amendment was passed by Congress, it failed to achieve radification by the required 38 states.

Answer 10

Equal rights amendment 1972

Question 11

Provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that guarntees women legal protection against discrimination

Answer 11

Title VII 1964

Question 12

Law that gave Indian tribes control over federal programs carried out on their reservations and increasing the authority in reservation schools

Answer 12

Indian Self Determination and Education Assisstance Act 1974

Question 13

Island in Sanfransico Bay that was occupied by Inidans activists who demanded that hte island be made available to them as a culutral center

Answer 13

Alcatraz 1969

Question 14

One of the leading Meican American civil rights and soical justice activist of the 1960s

Answer 14

Cesar Chavez (wanted farming)

Question 15

Social program indroduced by President Johnson for a war on poverty, protection of civil rights, and funding for education

Answer 15

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Soiety 1964

Question 16

Prominent member of the AMerican Indian Movement who helped organized the seize of Alcatraz in 1969 and Wounded Knee in 1973

Answer 16

Russel Means

Question 17

Militant Indian movement that was willing to use confrontation to obtain social justice and Indian treaty rights

Answer 17

American Indian Moement (AIM) 1968

Question 18

President Johnson’s program to help Americans escape poverty through education, job trianing, and community development

Answer 18

War on Poverty 1964