U.S. History II

Question 1

What is the SNCC?

Answer 1

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 2

What did the SNCC hope to accomplish

Answer 2

combatting segregation and other forms of racism through organized sit-in movements across the South.

Question 3

How pivotal was the SNCC to the civil rights movement

Answer 3

At the forefront of nearly every civil rights battle of the next few years

Organized the younger black populous and

Question 4

Who/where did the U.S. send on May 1961 and why?

Answer 4

Green Berets and advisors.
Vietnam.
to defend American-backed South Vietnam against North.

Question 5

what organizations/Programs were kickstarted during the War on poverty era?

Answer 5

Job Corps, VISTA, Legal Services Program, Head Start, Medicare

Question 6

What did the Civil Rights Act enforce?

Answer 6

Prohibited segregation in public accommodations.

Outlawed employment discrimination on federally assisted projects.

No discrimination in public accommodation on the basis of race, sex, religion, skin color, or national origin.

Question 7

When was the Civil Rights Act signed into law?

Answer 7

July 2, 1964 via Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 8

What was the Voting Rights Act?

Answer 8

Outlawed literacy tests and other practices to systematically deny the vote to minorities

Initially applied to 7 southern states (later expanded)

Dramatically increased black registration (27% to 55% in the first year)

Question 9

What was the effect on South Vietnam Due to LBJ’s Influence?

Answer 9

Society torn apart, ecological devastation

US troops conduct search-and-destroy missions in the countryside seeking Vietcong

4m Vietnamese become refugees

Question 10

What were Hippies?

Answer 10

A mix of:

Social rebels renounced materialism and used drugs to explore their inner spiritual selves.

Idealists rejecting 1950s conformity

Question 11

what were the methods of the hippies for challenging social norms?

Answer 11

drugs (pot and LSD), sex, and music from Bob Dylan to the Beatles

Question 12

What organizations came about due to the hippie movements?

Answer 12

New Left (Students for a Democratic Society)

Question 13

how was the culture of America shifted or influenced overall during the hippie movement?

Answer 13

Beatles, Bob Dylan (“Like a Rolling Stone” 1965) led change in music

Hollywood reaches out to a youth-dominated audience (graphic sex and violence)

Advertising campaigns feature rebellious youth

Question 14

what happened during Sit ins?

Answer 14

Over 70,000 participate in sit-ins (direct action protest) across South resulting in 3,000 arrests

Question 15

What happened to Emmett Till?

Answer 15

he was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River.

Question 16

what was Freedom Summer?

Answer 16

an effort to register black voters and directly challenge the rule of segregation (Spring 1964)

Question 17

Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?

Answer 17

an American voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement.

Question 18

What was “Bloody Sunday”

Answer 18

law enforcement officers beat unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas. during the Selma, Alabama, march in 1965

Question 19

Define the progression of the Gay liberation movement

Answer 19

By the mid-1950s, the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis were campaigning for equality, marching in front of White House

Police harassment and raids prompted the Stonewall Riots beginning June 27, 1969

Sparks modern gay rights movement for civil rights and liberation (Gay Liberation Front)

The mid-70s, over 500k participate in Pride Parades

Question 20

what was the ruling of brown v board of education

Answer 20

that racial segregation is unconstitutional in public schools.