US History Unit 8

Question 1

What is de jure segregation?

Answer 1

Segregation by law

Question 2

What is a restrictive covenant?

Answer 2

Agreement among neighbors not to sell or rent to African americans

Question 3

List 3 tactics used to disenfranchise African American voters in the first half of the 20th century

Answer 3

1) White primary
2) Gerrymandering
3) Pole taxes

Question 4

In 1948, President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981. What did this order call for?

Answer 4

Desegregated the armed forces

Question 5

What lawsuit was brought before the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of school segregation laws?

Answer 5

Brown vs. Board of e ducation

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT true of black schools in the 1940s?

Answer 6

Teachers in black schools were all volunteers and did not receive a salary.

Question 7

What achievement did Jackie Robinson make that helped blur the color line in the 1940s?

Answer 7

Became the 1st black player in major league base ball

Question 8

What tactic did Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference use most?

Answer 8

non-violence

Question 9

Describe the events of the civil rights protest in Birmingham AL:

Answer 9

Desegregation of public facilities within 90 days

Question 10

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in all of the following areas EXCEPT

Answer 10

housing

Question 11

How did President Eisenhower respond to the refusal to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?

Answer 11

National Guard= federal troops made sure schools were integrated

Question 12

What was the goal of the Freedom Summer Campaign?

Answer 12

by CORE and SNCC to register black voters in mississippi

Question 13

How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 help to bring about the change shown in

Answer 13

Federal supervision for voing in the south

Question 14

How did civil rights activists achieve an accord with Birmingham to undergo desegregation of public facilities?

Answer 14

Sit in’s

Question 15

In June 1964, one black and two white student activists were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. This event is only one example of the violence that

Answer 15

participants in the Freedom Summer faced.

Question 16

What was the Kerner Commission Report?

Answer 16

Delt with Watz Riots ( Associate together)

Question 17

Malcom X: Know his religion and civil rights beliefs and strategies.

Answer 17

Nation of Islam, Rejection of non violence- get point across, became and Orthodox Muslim.

Question 18

What type of doctrine did the Black Nationalist believe in?

Answer 18

Believed in separation from white society

Question 19

Black Panthers-

Answer 19

was to stop abuse by local police departments

Question 20

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Answer 20

Banned discrimination of housing

Question 21

Affirmative Action-

Answer 21

a policy that calls on employers to actively seek to increase the number of minority in their work force

Question 22

Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education

Answer 22

busing minority students to out side school distracts

Question 23

National Organization for Women-

Answer 23

Shelby Steele- Founded in 1960’s- Brought women in full participation in mainstream america

Question 24

Who helped found the United Farms Workers and organized a national boycott of grapes?

Answer 24

Cesar Chavez

Question 25

Who was responsible for the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Longest Walk?

Answer 25

american indians- red power movment

Question 26

What was the main goal of the Japanese American Citizens league in the late 70’s and early 80’s?

Answer 26

wanted reparations

Question 27

Harvey Milk-

Answer 27

1st gay person elected in a major political office

Question 28

Gray Panthers-

Answer 28

Old people= fought for unfair treatments