Unit 8b

Question 1

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 1

US Baptist minister and civil rights leader, organized nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstration

Question 2

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 2

First African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States

Question 3

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 3

Ended literacy test and provided federal registrars in areas where blacks were kept from voting

Question 4

League of United Latin American citizens

Answer 4

Built on their community’s patriotic contributions to national defense in the arm services to challenge long-standing patterns of discrimination and exclusion, they protested segregation in schools and public facilities

Question 5

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Answer 5

Also known as the Hart-Cellar act, eliminated race as a basis of exclusion but retain the racist national origins quota system

Question 6

Tonkin gulf resolution

Answer 6

Gave president unlimited authority to defend the US forces

Question 7

Students for a democratic society

Answer 7

A newly formed radical student organization under the leadership of Tom Hayden. The group issued a declaration of purposes known as the port Huron statement, which called for university decisions to be made through participate democracy
(New Left)

Question 8

Counterculture

Answer 8

Expressed by young people in rebellious styles of dress, music, drug use, and communal living

Question 9

Woodstock Festival

Answer 9

A music festival in upper New York that reflected the zenith of counterculture

Question 10

War on poverty

Answer 10

Declared by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Created a variety of programs to help poor, including the Job Corps and the Headstart

Question 11

Office of economic opportunity

Answer 11

Part of war on poverty; sponsored self-help programs such as Head Start and Job Corps

Question 12

Medicare

Answer 12

Provided health insurance for old people 65 and older

Question 13

Tet Offensive

Answer 13

Surprise attack by the Vietcong

Question 14

My Lai massacre

Answer 14

US troops brutally massacred women and children

Question 15

Black power

Answer 15

Believes in black autonomy and Advocates use of violence as a means of achieving their aims

Question 16

Black panthers

Answer 16

Organize by Huey newton, Bobby Seale and other militants as a revolutionary socialist movement advocating self-rule for African blacks

Question 17

American Indian movement

Answer 17

To achieve self determination in revival of tribal traditions

Question 18

Cesar Chavez

Answer 18

Led boycott in Mexico, and helped form the United farmworkers organization to improve conditions for migrant farm workers

Question 19

United farm workers union

Answer 19

Led by Cesar Chavez, succeeded in helping to improve working conditions

Question 20

The feminine mystique

Answer 20

Book made by Betty Frieden that gave feminism movement a new direction by encouraging middle-class women to seek fulfillment and professional careers addition to filling the rules of wife, mother, and homemaker

Question 21

Gloria Steinem

Answer 21

An American journalist, the cofounder of Ms. magazine, who advocated the women’s liberation movement

Question 22

National organization for women

Answer 22

Founded by Friedan, which adopted activist tactics of other civil rights movement to secure a equal treatment of women

Question 23

Equal rights amendment

Answer 23

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex

Question 24

Griswold vs Connecticut

Answer 24

Court ruled that the state cannot prohibit the use of contraceptives by adults

Question 25

Miranda vs. Arizona

Answer 25

Requires the police to inform an arrested person of his or her right to be silent and the right to a lawyer being present during questioning by the police

Question 26

Roe vs. Wade

Answer 26

The high court struck down many state laws prohibiting the portions of the violation of the women’s right to privacy

Question 27

Bakke vs. California

Answer 27

While race can be considered, the school racial quotas were unconstitutional

Question 28

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 28

Conservative female political activist, stop the Equal rights amendment from being passed

Question 29

Trail of broken treaties

Answer 29

1971 American Indian movement protest against America’s lies and broken promises

Question 30

Strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT)

Answer 30

1- US diplomat secured so if you consent to a freeze in the number of ballistic missiles carry nuclear warheads
2-limiting the size of each superpowers nuclear delivery system

Question 31

Environmental Protection Agency

Answer 31

A government organization by executive order to regulate pollution

Question 32

Rachel Carson

Answer 32

Author of the exposé of pesticides, Silent Spring, and helped enact clean air and water laws

Question 33

Clean air act

Answer 33

Law that established national standards for states, strict auto emission guidelines, and regulations

Question 34

Watergate

Answer 34

Scandal the Nixon administration committed where hired “Goons” broke into the Democratic national headquarters

Question 35

Pentagon papers

Answer 35

Secret government history documenting the mistakes and deceptions of government policymakers in dealing with Vietnam

Question 36

Suez crisis

Answer 36

Egyptian president Nassar nationalized the Suez Canal

Question 37

OPEC

Answer 37

Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, curly, Iraq, and Iran joined Venezuela to form an organizations of exporting oil

Question 38

Sun belt

Answer 38

States from Florida to California with warmer climates, lower taxes, and economic opportunities

Question 39

Domino Theory

Answer 39

If South Vietnam felt under communist control, one nation after another and south east Asia I would also fall

Question 40

Malcolm X

Answer 40

Minister of the nation of Islam, urged blacks to claim their rights by any means necessary