Post War America, The Civil Rights Movement and the American Dream

Question 1

What case ensures that everyone is read their rights upon being arrested?

Answer 1

Miranda v Arizona (1966)

Question 2

What case ensures that those who cannot afford an attorney will be provided one by the state?

Answer 2

Escobedo v Illinois (1964)

Question 3

Which case barred school-led prayer in public schools?

Answer 3

Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. Schempp (1963)

Question 4

What series of government programs did LBJ champion?

Answer 4

The Great Society

Question 5

What law was passed to end segregation in the South in 1964?

Answer 5

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Question 6

Which amendment eliminated the poll tax in state elections?

Answer 6

24th amendment, 1964

Question 7

What was the first suburb of pre-fabricated homes in the US?

Answer 7

Levittown, named after William J Levitt

Question 8

The New Frontier is associated with which President?

Answer 8

John F. Kennedy

Question 9

What case legalized the distribution of birth control?

Answer 9

Griswold v. Connecticut

Question 10

What case overturned Plessy v Ferguson?

Answer 10

Brown v Board of Education

Question 11

Which case established the ‘Exclusion’ rule in criminal trials?

Answer 11

Mapp v Ohio (1961)

Exclusionary rule: evidence seized illegally cannot be used in trial.

Question 12

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who presided over many landmark decisions?

Answer 12

Chief Justice Earl Warren (Warren Court)

Question 13

What case ensured adults the right to legally obtain birth control?

Answer 13

Griswold v Connecticut

Question 14

What case declared segregation between Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans in schools unconstitutional?

Answer 14

Gonzalo and Felicitas Méndez case and Delgado v Bastrop ISD

Question 15

What legislation led to the rise of suburbia?

Answer 15

1965 Federal-Aid Highway Act (Interstate Highway Act)

Question 16

What student-led organization began as a civil rights movement for African Americans?

Answer 16

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 17

Who were the students protected by the National Guard to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School?

Answer 17

Little Rock Nine

Question 18

What organization did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

Answer 18

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 19

What law was designed to end discriminatory housing?

Answer 19

The Fair Housing Act

Question 20

What series of government programs is JFK associated with?

Answer 20

New Frontier

Question 21

What was the name of the petition signed by many white southern politicians to preserve segregation?

Answer 21

Southern Manifesto

Question 22

What expression of rebellion received a loyal following from baby boomers?

Answer 22

Hippies

Question 23

Who is the author of Silent Spring?

Answer 23

Rachel Carson

Question 24

What did Executive Order 9981 do?

Answer 24

Banned segregation in the Armed Forces

Question 25

What murder sparked the civil rights movement in the 1950s?

Answer 25

Emmett Till

Question 26

Who integrated the University of Mississippi?

Answer 26

James Meredith

Question 27

What program did Cesar Chavez organize farm workers into?

Answer 27

United Farm Workers

Question 28

Who is credited with assassinating JFK?

Answer 28

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 29

What case ended legal segregation between Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans?

Answer 29

Hernández v Texas and Méndez v Westminster

Question 30

What series of events resulted in the killing of three civil rights workers in 1964?

Answer 30

Freedom Summer

Question 31

Who was the President of the Alabama chapter of the NAACP killed in 1963?

Answer 31

Medgar Wiley Evers

Question 32

What two federal policies encouraged the relocation of Native Americans?

Answer 32

Termination Policy and American Indian Urban Relocation/Indian Relocation Act of 1965

Question 33

What law made the poll tax in federal elections illegal?

Answer 33

24th amendment/Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 34

What caucus was formed in Congress in 1971 to offer African Americans a voice?

Answer 34

Black Caucus

Question 35

What commission was established in 1974 due to concerns about nuclear energy?

Answer 35

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Question 36

What proposed amendment to ensure gender equality failed to be ratified?

Answer 36

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 37

Who fractured the Democratic coalition in the 1968 election?

Answer 37

Hubert Humphrey

Question 38

Who opposed greater federal control in the 1964 presidential election?

Answer 38

Barry Goldwater

Question 39

What case established the 'one man, one vote' rule?

Answer 39

Reynolds v. Sims

Question 40

What organization was founded by WEB DuBois to end segregation?

Answer 40

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 41

What law ensured returning WWII veterans student loans?

Answer 41

GI Bill of Rights

Question 42

Who represented Linda Brown in her case?

Answer 42

Justice Thurgood Marshall

Question 43

What case ensured women's rights to control their bodies?

Answer 43

Roe v Wade

Question 44

What bill ensured returning veterans money for college and homes?

Answer 44

GI Bill

Question 45

Who signed an executive order to end segregation in the military in 1948?

Answer 45

President Harry S. Truman

Question 46

What organization advocates for Native American sovereignty?

Answer 46

National Congress of American Indians

Question 47

What series of legislation was part of the Great Society?

Answer 47

Volunteers in Service to America, Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare

Question 48

What acts were created during Richard Nixon's presidency?

Answer 48

The Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency

Question 49

What organization promotes the economic advancement of African Americans?

Answer 49

National Urban League

Question 50

What law removed quotas limiting immigration from non-European countries?

Answer 50

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Question 51

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?

Answer 51

Betty Friedan

Question 52

Which president proposed the Fair Deal?

Answer 52

Harry Truman