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Mid-Term Test Review
Mid-Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Farmer | created Congress of Racial Equality |
| Hecor P. Garcia | founded the American GI Forum |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | Signed Civil Rights Act 1964 |
| Susan B. Anthony | Quaker who fought for womans suffrage |
| Thurgood Marshall | Civil Rights leader who was a supreme court justice |
| Africans Americans | 2nd largest minority group in Texas |
| Hispanics | expected to have the highest increase in population through 2015 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | made it illegal for public places to discriminate based on race |
| Poll Tax | tax that changed people to vote... blacks could not pay in many cases. |
| House Bill #72 | Origination of "No Pass, No Play" rule |
| Maquiladoras | U.S. assembly plants south of the Mexican border |
| Robin Hood Plan | law passed in 1993nrequiring wealthier schools to share money with poorer districts |
| Boycott | when a government stops trade with another government |
| Legislative branch | branch of government that makes law |
| Executive branch | branch of government that carries out the law |
| Judicial branch | branch of government that decides if laws are fair |
| Gilmer-Aiken Bills | laws established to improve teacher training, raise teacher salaries, provide textbooks, and required students to attend school for 9 months |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement between U.S., Canada, and Mexico |
| Ways in which Federal Government can influence Texas economy | energy policies, export agreements with other countries, agriculture regulations |
| Majority of Texans | live in urban-cities |
| Because of Hispanic population growth | more people will be Spanish speaking in next 20 years |
| Crime | increased in cities because people moved to suburbs |
| Austin | one of the country’s top locations for high tech |
| Houston | largest port in Texas |
| San Antonio | has large number of tourist attractions |
| Suburbs | 1950s and 60s… people moved here from cities to get away from crowding, pollution, crime, etc |
| Families moving off the farm 1950s and 60s | did so because could not make a living |
| Explain in a paragraph how people were discriminated against in the 1st half of the 20th century. | The minority weren't treated equally and didn't get the same quality stuff as the whites. Whites houses were better, better chances in life, etc. |
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