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Chap. 29 SS-Bauer
Question | Answer |
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The mixing of different racial or ethnic groups | Integration |
Separating people on buses, in schools, in restaurants and restrooms is example of | Segregation |
Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences | Segregation |
Idea that people have a right to disobey laws that they consider to be unjust if their consciences demand it | Civil disobedience |
The efforts of African Americans to win equal rights | Civil rights movement |
To refuse to buy or use certain goods or services | Boycott |
An 1896 court case in which the supreme ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal | Plessy v. Ferguson |
1954 lawsuit against Topeka School Board for discrimination against a man's daughter. He won separate but equal was declared unconstitutional | Brown vs. Board of Education |
Set precedent for the argument of trial by jury of peers. Man was convicted by an all-white jury | Hernandez v. Texas |
Rosa Parks led blacks to protest causing a loss of money | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
_______________-policy that denies the rights of certain groups of people | discrimination |
Considered to be the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, schools were integrated "with all deliberate speed", the Little Rock Nine were escorted by federal troops after _____________ | Brown |
The Montgomery Bus Boycott led to the ___ ____ _____. | MIA: Montgomery Improvement Association |
City leaders chose ______to lead the protest after the MIA was formed. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The MIA gave rise to ______________ ________________. | Civil Disobedience |
Civil Disobedience was modeled after ________efforts in India. | Ghandi's |
Plessy V. Ferguson affected the __________community. It helped African Americans be recognized as_________________. It is important because minorities are still fighting for ________rights. | African Americans citizens equal |
Form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave. | sit-in |
Number less than half of the total | minority |
Program to provide more job and education opportunities for people who faced discrimination in the past | affirmative action |
A person who moves from one region to another in search of work | migrant worker |
Act or decision that sets an example for others to follow | precedent |
Movement where Indians protested their treatment in 1973 | AIM=American Indian Movement |
Organization founded in 1909 to work toward equal rights for African Americans | NAACP=National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
Asian Americans joined the civil rights movement in 1968 in Berkeley, CA when they founded________________ | AAPA=Asian American Political Alliance |
Passed by Congress before the war ended to help returning veterans. | GI Bill of Rights |
One result of more Latino voters and elected officials was the passing of ____________________ | Voting Rights Act of 1975 |
These acts promoted bilingual programs in public schools with Spanish-speaking and Asian students | The Bilingual Education Acts of 1968 and 1973 |
This act outlawed discrimination in hiring based on gender and on race | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation | The Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War | The Civil Rights Act of 1965 |
organized campaign to win property, education, and other rights for women | Women's Rights Movement |
In the 1970's this movement began because more than 10 million Latino's lived in the U.S. | The Latino Movement |
First African American to play in the major leagues; broke the color barrier in baseball | Jackie Robinson |
Her refusal to give up her seat led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
Black Muslim who called for a society in which there could exist honest white-black brotherhood | Malcolm X |
African American who called for nonviolent direct action | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. | Freedom Summer |
He argued before the Supreme Court in 1954 in the case that ended the practice of separate schools for black and white students | Thurgood Marshall |
He proposed a reform called the Fair Deal to provide low cost housing and government-financed health insurance | President Truman |
President who believed in limiting federal spending and reducing federal regulation of the economy. Middle of the road approach | President Eisenhower |
what was the 14th amendment | The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. |
what was a baby boom | a sudden rapid increase in the number of baby being born |
what happened in the 1950s? | African Americans and Mexican Americans started to step up for there rights, and this became known as the civil rights movement |
what is the sclc | The Southern Christian Leadership conerence |
what does CORE stand for | Conference of racial equality |
what does sncc stand for | Student nonviolent coordinating comity |
what was the involvement of media | people would see the news about the protests on TV and on the radio and decide that they want to join in to. |
what is Affirmative Action | program to provide more job and education opportunities for people who faced discrimination in the past. |
what is an Economic Boom | a period of significant output of goods and services within a population |