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UNIT 9 TEST REVIEW
GPS U.S. History
SSCG 21
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Huge growth of population
after WWII from mid 1940s
– 1960s?
Baby Boom
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Baby Boom contributed to?
Levittowns
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First master-planned
community in America located
on New York’s Long Island?
Levittown
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Congressional authorized
Construction of a national
network of highways to connect
every major city in America?
Interstate Highway
Act
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This was a major reason that
Eisenhower pushed for the
Interstate Highway Act?
National Defense
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The Interstate Highway Act
also improve this type of
transportation?
Travel from
Suburbs to City
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For the first time in U.S. History
the 1960 Presidential election
was influenced by this?
Television
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The two candidates in the1960
Presidential debate that was
televised?
Kennedy/Nixon
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This caused many in the U.S.
to become sympathetic to the
Civil Rights movement?
News Coverage
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This changed communication
in the United States from home
to home?
Personal Computer /
Internet
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The Personal Computer
(Internet) caused what to
happen internationally?
Increase in
Business
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This improved communication
throughout the United States?
Cellular Phone
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Cell phone & Personal
computer caused this in the
United States?
Communications
Revolution
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This permitted more tolerable
working conditions in
skyscrapers and other
buildings used to conduct
business?
Air Conditioning
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U.S. President responsible for
integrating the U.S. Military
and the Federal Government?
President Harry
Truman
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Organizing government jobs
and military positions
regardless of race?
Integration
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Harry Truman’s action
integrating the federal
government?
Executive Order
9980
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Harry Truman’s action
integrating the U.S.
Military?
Executive Order
9981
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First African American to
integrate professional
baseball?
Jackie Robinson
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Team Jackie Robinson played
for when integrated
professional sports?
Brooklyn Dodgers
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U.S. Supreme Court decision
that integrates Schools
throughout the United States?
Brown v. Board of
Education (1954)
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Browned reversed the decision
in this case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896)
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Plessy established this legal
principle?
“Separate but Equal”
doctrine
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Arkansas Governor that
resisted the Brown decision?
Orval Faubus
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Arkansas Governor Orval
Faubus used this to keep
black kids from going to
school with whites?
National Guard
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Orval Faubus used the
National Guard to block black
students entrance to this
school?
Little Rock’s Central
High School
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President that reacted to
Governor Faubus’ resistance to
Brown?
President
Eisenhower
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President Eisenhower
responded this way to Little
Rock incident in Arkansas?
Forced Integration
with U.S. Military
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The Civil Rights leader from
Atlanta Georgia?
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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Letter written by Martin Luther
King, Jr.?
Letter from
Birmingham Jail
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
justified the use of?
Disobeying unjust
laws as a strategy of
social activism
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The disobeying of unjust laws
as a strategy of social activism
is called?
Civil Disobedience
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
addressed this group of people
in his Letter from Birmingham
Jail?
White Ministers
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
defended use of this in his
Letter from Birmingham Jail?
Civil Disobedience /
Protest & Demonstrations
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Made by MLK, Jr. in
Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln
Memorial asking for peace and
racial harmony?
“I have a dream”
speech
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Law that prohibited
discrimination based on race,
religion, national origin, and
gender; Ended Jim Crow?
Civil Rights Act of
1964
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This motivated Congress to
pass the Civil Rights Act of
1964?
Assassination of
John F. Kennedy
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Outlawed literacy tests and
created programs to register
minority voters in the South;
Justice Department to oversee
voting is fair?
Voting Rights Act of
1965
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This prohibits segregation in
public places?
Civil Rights Act of
1964
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Southern resistance to African
Americans participation in
voting resulted in this?
Voting Rights Act of
1965
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During the 1950’s and 1960s,
one of the most liberal
Supreme Courts; Issued Brown
(1954), Miranda (1963)?
Warren Court
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U.S. Supreme Court case that
said police must inform
suspects of their constitutional
rights at the time of arrest?
Miranda v. Arizona
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The Warren Court expanded
this during the 1950s and the
1960s liberal movement?
Individual Rights
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This tragedy happened in 1963
in Dallas Texas, but helped
push Civil Rights legislation
through Congress in 1964?
Assassination of
John F. Kennedy
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This Vice President become
President of the United States
after JFK’s assassination?
Lyndon B. Johnson
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President Johnson had this due
to the assassination of JFK and
used it to push his domestic
package through Congress?
Political Capital
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This is the name of President
Johnson’s Domestic plan?
Great Society
Program
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The Great Society Program
declared this throughout the
U.S.?
War on Poverty
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This was part of the Great
Society Program and offered
medical help to elderly people?
Medicare
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This year was full of social and
political turmoil in the United
States?
1968
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In 1968, this televised event in
Vietnam caused many to
oppose the war with public
protests?
Tet Offensive
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The event resulted in many
African Americans rioting in
cities across the U.S.?
Martin Luther King,
Jr. Assassination
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This was passed by Congress
one week after MLK, Jr’s death
and prevented discrimination in
housing?
Civil Rights Act of
1968
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This individual was killed while
running for President and
supported Civil Rights and
withdrawal from Vietnam in
1968?
Robert F. Kennedy
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This made people wander if the
American form of government
could tolerate dissent?
Democratic National
Convention
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This televised riot in 1968
showed police in riot gear
beating anti-war rioters and
spraying them with tear gas?
Democratic National
Convention
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Founded by MLK, Jr. to carry
out nonviolent marches,
protests, demonstrations
against racial discrimination;
remains nonviolent?
SCLC
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Founded by African American
college students, used sit-ins,
Freedom rides, originally
nonviolent but turned militant in
the “black power” movement?
SNCC
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Rides on buses in southern
states to see if laws against
segregation would be enforced
on buses?
Freedom Rides
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Whites and blacks would sit
together at lunch counters
across south to oppose
segregation in public cafes?
Sit-Ins
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Modern feminist organization
created to promote equal
rights and opportunities for
Women?
NOW
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Book written that stated that it
was a myth that women
wanted to be a domesticated
house wife and not enter
professional careers?
Feminine Mystique
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Author of Feminine Mystique
and a leader of the National
Organization for Women
(NOW)?
Betty Friedan
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Main goal of the National
Organization for Women
(NOW)?
Equal pay; Equal
opportunity in the
Workforce
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Mexican American civil rights
leader for Hispanic immigrant
farm laborers?
Cesar Chavez
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Chavez founded this
movement to used nonviolent
protest to promote the rights of
Hispanic workers?
United Farm
Workers (UFW)
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Cesar Chavez used this nonviolent strategy to get grape
growers to negotiate a contract
with the UFW?
Boycott
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This is the product that Cesar
Chavez and UFW boycotted?
California Table
Grapes
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This individual became the
leader of the Modern
Environmental Movement?
Rachel Carson
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Rachel Carson was the author
of this book?
Silent Spring
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Silent Spring led the
environment movement by
opposing use of this in
farming?
Chemicals/Pesticides
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Silent Spring led the
environment movement by
opposing use of this particular
insecticide?
DDT
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April 22 intended to inspire
awareness and appreciation
for the earth’s environment?
Earth Day
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Federal Agency with the
purpose of enforcing laws
aimed at maintaining a safe
and clean environment?
Environmental
Protection Agency
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Movement to turn back
(Backlash) liberal agendas by
cutting social welfare, taxes,
decrease the size of
government?
Conservative
Movement
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This candidate won the
Republican nomination for
President in 1964 signaling the
rise of the Conservative
Movement?
Barry Goldwater
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This conservative won the
President Election of 1968?
Richard Nixon
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1973 Supreme Court case that
said women had a 4th
Amendment Privacy right to
Abortion within the first
trimester of Pregnancy?
Roe v. Wade
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1978 Supreme Court case that
said race could be used when
considering applications to
college?
Bakke v. University
of California
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The Supreme Court, in the
Bakke case, said that this was
unconstitutional and could not
be used in considering college
applications?
Quota System
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This concept refers to
preferential hiring practices of
African Americans and other
Minorities?
Affirmative Action