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Question 1

Earl Warren
Chief Justice during the 1950’s and 1960’s who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.

Answer 1

Earl Warren
Chief Justice during the mid-1950’s to late 1960’s. He believed in a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.

Question 2

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Answer 2

Ordered states to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them in criminal proceedings.

Question 3

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Answer 3

The court ruled that those subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of their constitutional right to an attorney and their right to remain silent.

Question 4

Space Race

Answer 4

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

Question 5

President Lyndon Johnson

Answer 5

He became U.S. President on Nov. 22, 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He increased the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. His domestic program, The Great Society, created Medicaid, Medicare and many other programs in education and to deal with poverty.

Question 6

civil disobedience

Answer 6

A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.

Question 7

sit-in

Answer 7

Form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move until change occurs.

Question 8

Freedom Riders (1961)

Answer 8

Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation.

Question 9

James Meredith and the University of Mississippi

Answer 9

An American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. He was escorted the entire time he was there.

Question 10

March on Washington (1963)

Answer 10

August - 200,000 demonstrators converged on the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. King’s speech and to celebrate Kennedy’s support for the civil rights movement. (putting pressure on the federal government to pass civil rights legislation) Dr. King made his “I have a dream” speech.

Question 11

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 11

This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.

Question 12

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 12

Banned literacy tests.

Question 13

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 13

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.

Question 14

Malcolm X

Answer 14

Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965.