Civil Rights

Question 1

boycott

Answer 1

to refuse to use

Question 2

civil disobedience

Answer 2

the refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust

Question 3

poverty line

Answer 3

income level deemed necessary to acquire the necessities of life

Question 4

medicare

Answer 4

Federal health insurance program mainly for older people

Question 5

medicaid

Answer 5

Federal-state health insurance program for low-income people

Question 6

sit-in

Answer 6

the act of protesting by sitting down, commonly used as a method of nonviolent protest

Question 7

interstate

Answer 7

moving between two or more states

Question 8

feminist

Answer 8

activist for women’s rights

Question 9

Latino

Answer 9

People with family background from Latin America or Spain

Question 10

integrate

Answer 10

practice of uniting people from different races

Question 11

CORE

Answer 11

Congress of Racial Equality, founded in 1942 to fight segregation

Question 12

New Frontier

Answer 12

social reform pushed by Kennedy- more money for education and the poor

Question 13

Earl Warren

Question 14

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 14

Charged with Kennedy’s assisination

Question 15

Rosa Parks

Answer 15

Began the bus boycott in Montgomery by refusing to give up her seat to a white man

Question 16

Cesar Chavez

Question 17

Black Panthers

Question 18

Malcolm X

Question 19

segregation

Answer 19

separation of people of different races

Question 20

Identify the healthcare laws that were passed by Pres. Johnson

Answer 20

Medicare and Medicaid

Question 21

Explain the goal of the freedom riders during the civil rights movement

Question 22

Identify some of the goals of the women’s movement

Question 23

Identify the name of President Johnson’s plan

Answer 23

Great Society

Question 24

Identify who the Black Panthers were, and what was their goal

Question 25

Identify who the Equal pay Act was designed to help

Question 26

Identify who the Montgomery Bus Boycott was carried out by

Answer 26

African americans in Montgomery Alabama Dr. King was the leader SCLC

Question 27

Identify the NAACP

Answer 27

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 28

Identify who the lawyer of the NAACP was that represented the Brown family in the supreme court case Brown v. the Board of Education

Answer 28

Thurgood Marshall

Question 29

Identify some of the milestone events of the civil rights movement

Answer 29

Civil Rights act of 1964, Freedom Riders

Question 30

Explain some of the goals of the NAACP

Question 31

Identify the group that was created to work for women’s rights

Question 32

Identify who the UFW aimed to help during the civil rights movement

Question 33

Identify who designed the American “war on poverty” in their administration

Answer 33

Johnson

Question 34

Identify the city that was forcefully integrated by Pres. Eisenhower sending federal troops to

Question 35

Explain why Native Americans took control of historic places in the U.S.

Question 36

Identify the name of Presidents Kennedy’s administrative plan

Answer 36

New Frontier

Question 37

Identify the name of the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy