Unit IV Vocabulary

Question 1

Alliance for Progress

Answer 1

President Kennedy’s proposal for cooperation among nations of the Western Hemisphere to meet the basic needs of their people

Question 2

Apportionment

Answer 2

Distribution of seats in a legislative body

Question 3

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 3

Failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces in 1961

Question 4

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 4

Law that made discrimination illegal in a number of areas, including voting, schools, and jobs

Question 5

Cloture

Answer 5

In the Senate, 3/5 vote to limit debate and call for a vote on an issue

Question 6

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 6

1962 Crisis that arise between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to reply nuclear missiles in Cuba

Question 7

De Facto Segregation

Answer 7

Separation caused by social conditions such as poverty

Question 8

De Jure Segregation

Answer 8

Racial segregation created by law.

Question 9

Filibuster

Answer 9

A tactic in which senators prevent a vote on a measure by taking the floor and refusing to stop talking.

Question 10

Freedom Ride

Answer 10

1961 event organized by CORE and activists tested southern states’ compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses.

Question 11

Great Society

Answer 11

President Lyndon Johnson’s proposals for aid to public education, voting rights, conservation and beautification projects, medical care for the elderly, and elimination of poverty.

Question 12

Head Start

Answer 12

A preschool program for children from low income families that also provides healthcare, nutrition services, and social services.

Question 13

Immigration Act of 1965

Answer 13

Law that ended quotas for individual countries and replaced then with more flexible limits

Question 14

Integration

Answer 14

Process of bringing people of different races together

Question 15

Mandate

Answer 15

A public endorsement, expressed to a candidate by voters

Question 16

Medicaid

Answer 16

Federal program that provides low-cost health insurance to poor Americans if any age

Question 17

Miranda Rule

Answer 17

Rule that police officers must inform persons accused of a crime of their legal rights

Question 18

NAACP

Answer 18

Organizations founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain civil rights for African Americans

Question 19

Nation of Islam

Answer 19

Organization, also called the Black Muslims, dedicated to black separation and self-help.

Question 20

New Frontier

Answer 20

President Kennedy’s proposals to improve the economy, assist the poor, and advance the space program.

Question 21

Peace Crops

Answer 21

Federal program established to send volunteers to help developing nations around the world.

Question 22

SCLC

Answer 22

Civil rights organization that advocated nonviolent protest; formed I’m 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other keaders

Question 23

SNCC

Answer 23

An offshoot of SCLC, a student social rights organization founded in 1960.

Question 24

Sit-in

Answer 24

Form of protest in which protesters seat themselves and refuse to move

Question 25

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 25

Law Aimed at reducing the barriers that prevented African Americans from voting, in part by increasing the federal governments authority to register voters.

Question 26

Warren Commission

Answer 26

Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy