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History Quiz 3/20/08
Stack #125985
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| August 1963 | Martin Luther King lead a march to Washington D.C |
| 200,000 | About the amount of people at the lincoln memorial to hear matin luther king give his speak |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | This made it illegal to discriminate in the use of such public places as hotels, resturant, ect. |
| Stokely carmicheal | head of the student non-violent cordination commitee |
| black power and its different definitions | It means the increasing push for full rights sometimes with violence, electing black officials, having a greater voice in community decisions, and promoting black culture and history |
| Whatts riot | Happened in LA and lasted for 6 days |
| Detroit riot | 40 died, 2,000 hurt, and 5,000 without homes |
| reasons for riots | people wanted equality |
| CSO | Community Service Organization that worked on getting Mexican Americans in the LA area to register to vote |
| Caesar Chavez | leader of CSO |
| demonstrations | displays by a group in a public plave of the members feelings about a cause, policy, or a person |
| oratory | (blank) |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | did away with literacy tests as a means of deciding who could vote. gave federal officers the power to register people to vote in areas where local authorities were keeping them from doing so. |
| Displaced | people who have been forced to leave their country because of political reasons |
| intervention | interference in the affairs of another person |
| improvements in education | 1. The elementary and secondary school act of 1965= gave 1.3 billion to schools on the basis of the number of needy children in each district. |
| HUD | Housing and Urban Development |
| Open housing law of 1968 | made it against the law to discriminate in the sale or rental of housing |
| commonwealth | a country with local self government but united to another country |
| guerrillas | bands of people who make war by harassment and sabotage |