Unit 9: Civil Rights Events of the 1950s

Question 1

Growing Economy

Answer 1

Increased spending with disposable income
Car and TV ownership increased

Question 2

G. I. Bill

Answer 2

Passed in 1944, it was a law that gave benefits to returning WWII veterans
Education
Home loans
Unemployment benefits
Medical Care

Question 3

Suburbia

Answer 3

Levittowns - suburban housing developments created by Levitt & Sons

Question 4

Baby Boom

Answer 4

Increase in birth rate 1946-1964

Question 5

“Ideal” Family

Answer 5

Women - took care of the home and children
Men - the “provider, protector and the boss of the house.” - Life Magazine, 1955
Strict gender roles

Question 6

Redlining

Answer 6

The “color-coding” of maps of cities to determine the areas that are “safe” to give mortgages to; wouldn’t give to with greater “risk”
Racially-dependent
Prevented diversity

Question 7

White Flight

Answer 7

The trend in which whites would sell their home and flee their neighborhoods for once a Black American moved in
Fears of lowering of property value due to Black neighbors

Question 8

What is the 1950s known for?

Answer 8

Conformity

Question 9

What is the 1960s known for?

Answer 9

Counterculture

Question 10

What is the 1970s known for?

Answer 10

Individualism

Question 11

Counterculture

Answer 11

Baby boomer teenagers
The most affluent generation in American History
Color TV
Protests for civil rights, against war
Rock & roll

Question 12

Individualism

Answer 12

Desire to not conform
Hippies - young people who were part of the “hip” or cool culture
Valued peace
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match
Disco

Question 13

Movement vs. Time Period

Answer 13

Time period is a period of time while a movement is a something important that happends

Question 14

Murder of Emmett Till

Answer 14

Teenage boy was accused of whistling at a white lady and was beaten to death by white men
Her mother had an open casket funeral to protest the unjust treatment of African Americans

Question 15

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Answer 15

Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education bc his daughter wasn’t allowed at an all whites elementary school that was closer to their house
Challenged the segregated schools were unequal

Question 16

Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)

Answer 16

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a bus so she got arrested
African Americans protested the unfairness by boycotting the buses until the buses weren’t segregated

Question 17

Little Rock Nine (1957)

Answer 17

9 Black students were set to integrate into Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School
Governor Orval Faubus sent troops to prevent them until judge told him to stop
Eisenhower sent national guard to escort children to school
After, Faubus closed all public schools

Question 18

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 18

Son of a Baptist preacher from Atlanta
One of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement
Inspired by Gandhi’s tactics
Member of the NAACP and led Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 19

Malcom X

Answer 19

Father was a Baptist minister but Malcolm was in foster care for his childhood and lived a life of crime
Joined Nation of Islam
Leader in the Civil Rights Movement
Assassinated for critiques of Islam and its founder

Question 20

Plessy V. Ferguson

Answer 20

US supreme court from the 1800s
Plessy challenged constitutionality of segregated Railroad Cars
Ruling was “separate but equal”

Question 21

Ruby Bridges

Answer 21

First Black student to integregate in schools
Had to be escorted by US Marshals because adults would harass her
All her classmates left her class bc they didn’t want to be near her