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Unit 7
terms, people and governmet actions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Freedom Summer | 1964 effort to register AA voters in Mississippi |
| De Jure Segregation | segregation imposed by law |
| Black Power | movement in the 1960's that urged AA's to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality |
| Freedom Ride | 1961 protests by black & white activists who rode buses through southern states to test their compliance with the ban on segregation on interstate buses |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | 1955-1956 protest by AA in Montgomery, Alabama against racial segregation in the bus system |
| Great Society | President Johnson's goals for the US in areas of healthcare, education, the environment, discrimination and poverty |
| Deficit Spending | the practice of a nation paying out more $ than it is receiving in revenues |
| Flexible Response | defense policy allowing for the appropriate action in any size or type of conflict |
| Warren Commission | committee that investigation the assassination of President Kennedy |
| Medicaid | federal program created in 1965 to provide low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age |
| New Frontier | President Kennedy's plan aimed at improving the economy, fighting racial discrimination and exploring space |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | AA civil rights leader and activist who had a nonviolent approach to equality |
| Malcolm X | AA converted to Islam in prison and then became a minister and human rights activist who thought violence was the best way to gain equality |
| Richard Nixon | VP under Eisenhower and lost to Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election |
| James Meredith | 1st AA student at Ole Miss |
| Lyndon Johnson | VP to Kennedy and became president after Kennedy's assassination created the Great Society program |
| Fidel Castro | dictator of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Jackie Robinson | first AA to play baseball in the major leagues for the Dodgers |
| Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 | determined that segregated schools were unconstitutional |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | banned racial discriminatory practices in voting, banned literary tests and gave the federal gov. the power to oversee voter registration |
| Kerner Commission | group set up to investigate the causes of race riots in the US cities in the 1960s |
| Civil Rights Act | outlawed discrimination in public places & employment based on race, religion, or national origin |
| Equal Pay Act | law passed in 1963 that required both men & women to recieve equal pay for equal work |
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