U.S. History Chapter 14 Study Guide – Flashcards
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Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?
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Jackie Robinson
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What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?
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It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans
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How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
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More than a year
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In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation,
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The Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists
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Why did Martin Luther King target Birgmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign?
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Because it was considered the most segregated city in the South
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In the excerpt above, what two specific activities are protected from discrimination?
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Voting and employment
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What were Jim Crow laws?
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They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races
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The members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed
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That direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans
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Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950's?
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NAACP
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In a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court
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Ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education
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To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?
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Little Rock, Arkansas
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In response to riots over desegregation the University of Mississippi, President Kennedy declared that
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Americans were free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it
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Why were many Americans surprised when President Johnson supported civil rights?
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He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters
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At what school was there major rioting over James Meredith's enrollment?
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The University of Mississippi
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How did T. Eugene Connor react to civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama?
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He ordered the use of police dogs and fire hoses against the marchers
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of
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Race
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The first of the confrontations on the Edmond Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as
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"Bloody Sunday"
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Not long after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans in several cities
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Rioted
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Following the issuance of the Kerner Commision's findings, a number of conservative commentators
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Argued against expanding federal spending for minorities
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What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
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Riots broke out
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What is an arguments hat people used to prevent affirmative action?
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It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society
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Which was the earliest event shown on the map?
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The Montgomery bus boycott
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The conflict at Little Rock's Central high School was a reaction to
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Brown v. Board of Education
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In what way did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect employment in the United States?
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It outlawed job discrimination and created the EEOC to investigate charges of job discrimination
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Which of the following events in the Civil Rights movement preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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All of the above
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At what point did the Black Panthers believe that African Americans would become "free"?
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When they gained full control of their community institutions
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How did the Black Panthers exemplify the idea of "black power"?
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The Black Panthers developed programs for African Americans to help themselves and their communities
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Who signed theCivil Rights Act of 1964?
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President Johnson
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When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed that they had been
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Murdered
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While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to
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The Nation of Islam
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What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King's assassination?
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The Fair Housing Act
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How was de facto segregation exhibited in the North?
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African Americans were denied housing in many neighborhoods
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How did protestors force President Kennedy to actively promote civil rights?
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They staged demonstrations where brutal white responses were covered in the media
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How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 limit states' rights?
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It empowered federal officials with overseeing voting registration and elections
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Attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots
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Kerner Commission
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Term coined by SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael
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Black power
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Best-known African American radical activist
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Malcolm X
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Racial separation imposed by law
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De jure segregation
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A massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
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Freedom Summer
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Bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes
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Freedom ride
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Banned literacy tests for voter registration
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Helped NAACP win desegregation case against "Ole Miss"
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James Meredith
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Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
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Brown v. Board of Education
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African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation
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Thurgood Marshall
