History Unit 8

Question 1

1896

Answer 1

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 2

1954

Answer 2

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 3

1941-1945

Answer 3

US involvement in WW2

Question 4

1950

Answer 4

The Korean War begins

Question 5

1955-1975

Answer 5

War in Vietnam

Question 6

1957

Answer 6

Sputnik

Question 7

1960

Answer 7

Semiconductor Integrated Circuit

Question 8

1969

Answer 8

Woodstock and the Harlem Cultural Festival

Question 8

1963

Answer 8

JFK assassinated

Question 9

1964

Answer 9

Civil Rights Act

Question 10

1968

Answer 10

MLK and Bobby assassinated

Question 11

1974

Answer 11

Nixon resigns

Question 12

1977

Answer 12

Star Wars

Question 13

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 13

Assassinated JFK

Question 14

Isaac Woodard

Answer 14

beaten by the police and became blind because he was mad he couldn’t a bus driver was mis treating him

Question 15

Emmett Till

Answer 15

Broke a segregation rule and was beaten so bad he died. The men who murdered him were not arrested and were not put in jail

Question 16

Medgar Evers

Answer 16

civil rights activist and soldier part of the NAACP

Question 17

16th St Church Bombing

Answer 17

a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Bap-]
?tist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group

Question 18

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 18

Plessy an AA got arrested for going in an “white’s only” car, Ferguson (judge) makes a separate but equal doctrine

Question 19

Brown v Board

Answer 19

AA goes against education segregation and court makes it legal for AA to go to school with whites

Question 20

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 20

Boycott against the busses, MLK leads it, peaceful protest and overall worked

Question 21

SCLC

Answer 21

key organization in the American Civil Rights Movement, focusing on nonviolent resistance and coordinating local organizations to fight for racial equality

Question 22

Why did school desegregation go so slow?

Answer 22

strong resistance from local communities and officials, a lack of strong federal enforcement, and the persistence of segregation

Question 23

Did Eisenhower agree with Brown v Board- why or why not? How did he respond and why?

Answer 23

Eisenhower wasn’t enthusiastic about the decision but he did send federal troops to little rock to ensure integration at central high school

Question 24

Sit-ins

Answer 24

Going to restaurants and demanding equal service. Many started doing this.

Question 24

Crisis in Little Rock

Answer 24

9 AA aloud into Little Rock highschool. Orval Faubus doesn’t want this and sends troops to prevent this. Many whites were angry and beat AA broken school windows.

Question 25

SNCC

Answer 25

Group of AA in college who lead nonviolent protests

Question 26

Freedom Riders

Answer 26

College students who traveled to the south & helped integrate buses, known as freedom riders. Angry mobs attacked them and no police were there to help.

Question 27

Kennedy’s response to freedom riders?

Answer 27

sent federal marshals to protect the students

Question 28

James Meredith

Answer 28

Air force veteran who tried to register at university admissions, JFK sends 500 marshals to escort him, huge mob attack

Question 29

Birmingham

Answer 29

People mad at kennedy for not stepping up to help, MLK gets arrested

Question 30

Bull Connor

Answer 30

American politician in birmingham lead attack on freedom riders

Question 31

Role of the March on Washington?

Answer 31

more than 200,00 people marched & MLK had an important speech. Becomes momentum for the Civil Rights Bill

Question 31

“Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Answer 31

Famous letter from MLK while he was in jail

Question 32

Watts Riot

Answer 32

neighborhoods burnt, 34 killed, 900 injured

Question 32

How did JFK’s assassination help to get Civil Rights Bill of 1964 passed?

Answer 32

many wanted it to be passed in honor of JFK

Question 32

Selma March

Answer 32

Only 3% AA registered voters. 2000 AA arrested for protesting. Protesters were beaten and attacked, was filmed and everyone was watching

Question 32

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 32

almost 250,000 new AA registered voters, huge turning point, movement began to help social & economic equality for AA

Question 32

Urban problems

Answer 32

racism stills occurs, AA struggling to get jobs and may lived in overcrowded, poor neighborhoods

Question 33

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 33

known for popularizing the slogan "Black Power" during the Civil Rights Movement & leader of the SNCC

Question 33

Black Power

Answer 33

Wanting self defense and violence, people feel MLK strategies aren't working

Question 33

Malcolm X

Answer 33

Symbol of the the black power movement, was convicted of burglary & went to prison, his ideas influenced generations of African Americans, he showed how AA should be seen as the same as white people

Question 34

Black Panthers

Answer 34

wanted a revolution in US & wanted to end racial oppression

Question 35

MLK assassination

Answer 35

MLK was in memphis for a strike & was shot on the balcony of his hotel, his death marked an end of an era in american history