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Domestic/Internation
USII.9 Civil & Equal Rights; Domestic & International Issues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| * Separate educational facilities and resources for white and African American students • Separate public facilities (e.g., restrooms, drinking fountains, restaurants) • Social isolation of races | Effects of Segregation |
| Opposition to Plessy v. Ferguson: | separate but equal |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Desegregation of schools |
| Passive resistance against segregated facilities; “I have a dream...” speech | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Montgomery bus boycott | Rosa Parks |
| Organized protests, Freedom Riders, sit-ins, marches | Actions during the civil rights movement |
| NAACP | National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
| Discrimination against women in hiring practices lower wages for women than for men doing the same job | Work place disadvantages for women |
| National Organization for Women (NOW) Federal legislation to force colleges to give women equal athletic opportunities | Improved conditions for women |
| Despite its failure, and a focus on equal opportunity employment created a wider range of options and advancement for women in business and public service. | Equal Rights Amendment |
| What resulted in legislation that ensured constitutional rights to all citizens of the United States regardless of race. | The Civil Rights Movement |
| Women_____ were inspired by the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement and took action to gain equality for women, particularly in the_____. | activists, workplace |
| After the war, Americans turned their energies to the development of peacetime_____. | technologies |
| New_____ in communication, entertainment, and business have dramatically affected American life. | technologies |
| Airline industry (jet engine), Automobile industry and interstate highway system, Entertainment and news media industries, Exploration of space, Computer industry, Satellite systems, telecommunications (pagers, cell phones, television), Internet | Industries benefiting from new technologies |
| travel, news & information, cheaper communication, heating and air-conditioning, decreased regional variation | Impact of new technologies on American life |
| Increased domestic and international_____ for business and pleasure | travel |
| Greater access to_____ and other information | news |
| Cheaper and more convenient means of _____ | communication |
| Greater access to_____ and _____ improved the quality of life and encouraged population growth in certain areas of the country. | heating, air-conditioning |
| Decreased regional_____ resulting from nationwide access to the same_____ and_____ provided by national television and radio programming,_____ services, and computer games | variation, entertainment, information, Internet |
| Representative_____ have influenced America scientifically, culturally, academically, and economically. | citizens |
| Medicine (plasma) | Charles Drew |
| Physics (Manhattan Project team) | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Architecture | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Dance | Martha Graham |
| History | Henry Louis Gates |
| Literature | Maya Angelou |
| Computer technology (Microsoft) | Bill Gates |
| Franchising (McDonald’s) | Ray Kroc |
| American foreign policy, immigration policies, energy policies, and environmental policies affect people both in the _____ and in other countries. | United States |
| • Increase in terrorist activities • Conflicts in the Middle East • Changing relationships with nations | Foreign policy |
| • Changing immigration patterns (e.g., Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans) • More people want to immigrate to the United States than are allowed by law. | Immigration |
| • Policies to protect the environment • Global climate change • Conservation of water and other natural resources | Global environment |
| • Energy issues (dependence on foreign oil) • World health issues (global pandemics) | Other emerging issues |
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Mrs. Estes
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