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EOC SG 9
study for End of Coarse exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| GI Bill of Rights | money for college, money for down home payment |
| suburbs | homes or neighborhoods outside cities that are exactly the same |
| white flight | all whites use GI Bill to leave city for suburbs |
| birth rate | because of prosperity women stayed home, had multiple babies; largest baby boom ever |
| Interstate Highway System | developed by Eisenhower to transport military coast to coast |
| fast food chain | McDonalds and Burger King develop because people travel with money |
| Hotel and Motel | developed during this time because of travel |
| Martin Luther King Jr | leader who used Ghandi’s slow non violent approach |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | organization associated with Martin Luther King Jr's approach of non violence; made up of Church preachers and elders |
| March on Washington | march where over 1 million men and women, white and black marched together in support of civil rights |
| sit ins | leaders would sit at lunch counters that were segregated forcing opposition |
| Malcolm X | “bullets for bullets”; an eye for an eye |
| Nation of Islam | Black Islamic Church who calls for an eye for an eye, and separation of races |
| Congress of Racial Equality | founded in 1942 using Ghandi’s non violence approach |
| Freedom Riders | students rode buses into south and desegregated facilities; South hated |
| Student Non Violent Coordination Committee | student activism in your face non-violent approach |
| affirmative action | when preference is given to a minority over a white in school admission or governmental contracts |
| American Indian Movement | group of Indians calling for all in |
| Wounded Knee | indians from AIM held off at gun point for over 90 days to fight for their rights |
| Equal Rights Amendment | constitutional amendment calling for all women to get equal pay and rights; Phyllis Schlafley a conservative fought against it successfully and it never passed |
| Brown v Board of Education | Supreme Court case ending segregation and integrating all schools putting black and white children together |
| Gideon v Wainright | Supreme Court case which ensures that your right to a free public defender in court is provided to you by the government |
| California v Bakke | Supreme court found against University of California policy which set aside 16 slots for medical school to minorities calling it unconstitutional |
| Roe v Wade | Texas woman is denied the right to have an abortion; Supreme Court overrules the Texas law and allows women throughout the United States the right to chose if they want to have an abortion |
| United Farm Workers | union of migrant farm workers in California that fought Ernest and Gallow winery for rights lead by Ceasar Chavez |
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