Unit 8 Part 2

Question 1

Justice who ruled Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools.

Answer 1

Thurgood Marshall

Question 2

Legislation in 1965 that overturned a variety of practices by which states systematically denied voter registration to minorities

Answer 2

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 3

Established in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanic veterans of World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.

Answer 3

League of United Latin American Citizens

Question 4

Known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new ___ policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States

Answer 4

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Question 5

Request of Congress from President LBJ in response to North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks in which he sought authorization for “all necessary measures” to protect American forces and stop further aggression

Answer 5

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 6

The leading students organization of the New Left of the early and mid-1960s.

Answer 6

Students for a Democratic Society

Question 7

Various alternatives to mainstream values and behaviors that became popular in the 1960s, including experimentation with drugs, communal living, etc.

Answer 7

Counterculture

Question 8

It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation

Answer 8

Woodstock festival

Question 9

Set of programs introduced by LBJ between 1963 and 1966 designed to break the cycle of poverty by providing funds for job training, community development, nutrition, and supplementary education

Answer 9

War on poverty

Question 10

Federal agency that coordinated many programs of the War on Poverty between 1964 and 1975.

Answer 10

Office of Economic Opportunity

Question 11

Basic medical insurance for the elderly, financed through the federal government; program created in 1965.

Answer 11

Medicare

Question 12

Though initial attacks stunned both the US and South Vietnamese armies, causing them to temporarily lose control of several cities, they quickly regrouped, beat back the attacks, and inflicted heavy casualties on communist force. American people back home = defeated morals

Answer 12

Tet Offensive

Question 13

Killing of 22 Vietnamese civilians by U.S. forces during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission

Answer 13

My Lai Massacre

Question 14

Philosophy emerging after 1965 that real economic and political gains for African Americans could come only through self- help, self-determination, and organizing for direct political influence

Answer 14

Black power

Question 15

Political and social movement among black Americans, founded in CA, in 1966 that emphasized black economic and political power

Answer 15

Black Panthers

Question 16

Group of Native-American political activists who used confrontations with the federal government to publicize their case for Indian rights

Answer 16

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Question 17

American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association

Answer 17

Cesar Chavez

Question 18

Founded by Cesar Chavez, put enough pressure on politicians to end the Bracero Program by 1964.

Answer 18

United Farm Workers Union

Question 19

1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism

Answer 19

The Feminine Mystique

Question 20

To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence.

Answer 20

Malcolm X