Week 5

Question 1

What is the civil rights movement

Answer 1

Refers to equal opportunities with regards to access to employment housing education as well as the right to vote and be free of racial discrimination

Question 2

When was the civil rights Movement

Answer 2

1940s the 1960s

Question 3

When was the brown versus board of education of Topia

Answer 3

1954

Question 4

When was the Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 4

1955

Question 5

When was the little rock case

Answer 5

1957

Question 6

When was it declared that every education board has to end segregation in schools

Answer 6

1954

Question 7

When was the civil rights act passed giving all AfricanAmericans the right to vote

Answer 7

1957

Question 8

How did African Americans protest for civil rights laws

Answer 8

They travelled by sitting next to each other in whites only sections of buses in areas where the local authorities had refused to desegregate the buses

Question 9

How many campaigners had staged citizens protest across yourself man

Answer 9

70,000 from 1960 to 1961

Question 10

When was it outlawed racial discrimination in employment and segregation in public places

Answer 10

1964

Question 11

When was the voting rights act

Answer 11

1965

Question 12

When was the fair housing act racial discrimination illegal when buying property

Answer 12

1968

Question 13

What did Malcolm X believe in

Answer 13

Believed violence was necessary to bring about chance

Question 14

When did Malcolm X set up the organisation of Afro-American Unity

Answer 14

1960

Question 15

How was Malcolm X killed and when

Answer 15

he was shot and killed by nation of Islam members 1965

Question 16

Why was the Peace Corps upset up By President Kennedy

Answer 16

To send volunteers to assist people in poor countries

Question 17

What did President Kennedy do for his new frontier

Answer 17

He cut taxes to give people money to spend 90,000,000 to businesses to create jobs minimum hourly wage increased Social Security act increase benefits for elderly and unemployed

Question 18

In 1963 how many people were unemployed and how many in 1960

Answer 18

In 1963 there were 4.5 million and only 1 million less than 1960

Question 19

What were the fails to President Kennedy’s new frontier

Answer 19

Funding for schools failed new equipment and factories meant that few workers were needed

Question 20

As part of President Johnson is great society what did he introduce

Answer 20

Jobs corpse was introduced to help Jai school leavers get jobs minimum hourly wage increase from 1.25 to 1.40 housing act funded low income housing Medicare to find health care to elderly in low income families operation Headstart gave money to poor schools in cities

Question 21

In 1968 was employment rising

Answer 21

No

Question 22

In 1959 how many African Americans lived in desperate poverty

Answer 22

56%

Question 23

In 1970 how many African Americans lived in poverty

Answer 23

30%

Question 24

How much did women earn less than men

Answer 24

60%

Question 25

When was the bestselling book called the feminine mystique by Betty Friedan published

Answer 25

1963

Question 26

When was the equal pay act

Answer 26

June 1963

Question 27

When was the civil rights act that band discrimination based on race and sex

Answer 27

1964

Question 28

When was the roe v wade case

Answer 28

1973

Question 29

What’s Did the roe v Wade case help women gain

Answer 29

The right to safe and legal abortion