1950s & 60s Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
GI Bill | Allowed for educational and housing benefits for returning vets after WWII |
Interstate Highway Act | created federally funded highways and forever changed the landscape of the U.S. |
Suburbanization | mass migration to the suburbs after WWII, creation of white conformist culture. |
McCarthyism | Communist witch hunt that occurred in the 1950s, where even state department and Army officals were accused of being communist. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Advocated nonviolent protest to achieve rights for African Americans; lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott and organized the March on Washington. |
Malcolm X | advocated a more aggressive approach to civil rights for African Americans; promoted black separatism initially, but eventually pushed for passive resistance before he was assassinated in 1965. |
Black Panther Party | militant African American organization that promoted black separatism and violent resistance; founded by Huey Newton. |
New Frontier | JFK's domestic program that promoted civil rights and education legislation. |
Great Society | LBJ's domestic program that continued many of JFK's policies that promoted equal education and civil rights legislation. He also pushed for and signed Medicare legislation. |
Edmund Pettus Bridge | Became a symbol of the Civil Rights struggle in Selma, used for marches and nonviolent protest for voting rights. |
Job Corps | created during Johnson administration; aimed to increase economic and educational opportunities for Americans, especially the poor and minorities. |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned discrimination based on race, religion, sex, color, or national origin. Passed in 1964 |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 | legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Passed in 1965. |
Brown v. Board of Education | landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated schools in the U.S.; eventually leads to the integration of Central High School by the "Little Rock Nine" in 1957 |
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