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Question 1

What are abolitionists?

Answer 1

People who wanted slavery to end.

Question 2

What happened in Adkins v. Children’s Hospital 19…?

Answer 2

The Supreme Court decision that minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract.

Question 3

What was affirmative action?

Answer 3

A policy in 1965 made by Lyndon Johnson, to help African Americans through positive action and quotas for education and employment. It was controversial and reduced under the republican administration of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

Question 4

What is Amendment?

Answer 4

The USA has a fixed constitution or set of rules but Article 5 allows for some amendments for meters so important they cannot be dealt with by usual laws.

Question 5

What is the American Federation of Labour (AFL)?

Answer 5

This replaced KOL (knights of Labour) and attempted to unite all unions so that by 1914 it had around 2 million members.

Question 6

What does assimilate mean?

Answer 6

The idea that Native Americans should adopt American lifestyles and values.

Question 7

What were Black codes used for?

Answer 7

They were laws used in Southern states to control freed slaves.

Question 8

Who were the Black Panthers?

Answer 8

Nationalist and socialist African American organisation formed in 1966 and were active until 1982.

Question 9

What was Black Power?

Answer 9

Movement or ideology determined by African Americans to gain power for themselves.

Question 10

What were Blue collar workers?

Answer 10

People who carry out manual work.

Question 11

What was the Bureau of Indian affairs?

Answer 11

Office controlling money for the development of Native Americans and responsible for their education and reservations.

Question 12

What was busing?

Answer 12

Policy that ensured children were in mixed schools were in mixed race schools to help socially disadvantaged African American children who were thought to do better in mixed race classrooms and to promote racial integration. Proved unpopular and controversial among whites, there were disturbances in Kentucky 1975/76.

Question 13

Case Cherokee Nation v. Hitchcock 19.. ?

Answer 13

The supreme court declared that it had no jurisdiction in a case brought by Cherokee Native Americans of Georgia arguing that the state had infringed it’s rights on the grounds that the Cherokees were a dependant nation who could not have access to the court.

Question 14

What was CCC?

Answer 14

Civilian Conservation Corps. Part of the New Deal to create jobs in preserving and caring for natural resources like forests.

Question 15

What is a “closed shop”?

Answer 15

Workplace where one union dominates and workers have to belong to that union.

Question 16

What is communal living?

Answer 16

A reaction against the family structure. This practice brought together adults and children in large households.

Question 17

Collective bargaining

Answer 17

Where workers representatives join together and negotiate over issues such as pay and conditions.

Question 18

Confederacy

Answer 18

When the southern states left the union they were known as the Confederate States of America or the confederacy.

Question 19

What is congress?

Answer 19

The US equivalent to the British parliament. Has two houses the Senate and the Representatives. Each state elect two senators and several congressmen to sit in the house of representatives, The number depends on the state population.

Question 20

What was the CIO?

Answer 20

Congress of Industrial Organisations. It was established in 1935 made up of 8 unions from the American Federation of Labour (AFL). These unions remained in the AFL but were expelled 1936 because of suspected links with communism.CIO merged with AFL in 1955.

Question 21

Constitution

Answer 21

The rules that the country’s government works by.

Question 22

Copper v. Kansas 19..?

Answer 22

1915. Supreme Court ruling which declared it legal for employers to make not joining a union a condition of Labour contracts. These came to be known as ‘yellow dog’ contracts.

Question 23

CORE

Answer 23

The Congress Of Racial Equality which was set up in 1942 to protest against racial segregation in northern cities. It was revived in 1961 and in 1968 it was focused on economic issues.