TERMS/PEOPLE/EVENTS TO KNOW

Question 1

W.E.B. Du Bois “Returning Soldiers”

Answer 1

African-Americans must continue fighting for democracy and equality after returning home from war

Question 2

Great Migration

Answer 2

• African-Americans migrate from south to north to escape unemployment, discrimination and poverty
• whites resist, race riots bcuz no jobs

Question 3

“New Negro” Movement

Answer 3

• generation after Emancipation

- racial pride

Question 4

Marcus Garvey/UNIA

Answer 4

• universal negro improvement association
• economic empowerment
• black nationalism

Question 5

Shut the Door

Answer 5

anglo-saxon superiority vs. we’re all immigrants asshole

Question 6

Committee on Public Information

Answer 6

• George Creel
• masculinity, chivalry, patriotism
• propaganda for war effort

Question 7

National Origins Act

Answer 7

-only allows 2% of the number of immigrants from each country

Question 8

18th Amendement

Answer 8

prohibition

Question 9

19th Amendement

Answer 9

women’s suffrage

Question 10

Hooverville

Answer 10

shanty towns

Question 11

New Deal: relief, recovery, reform

Answer 11

• relief: immediate, halt economic decline (Bank Holiday)
• recovery: temporary, restart flow of consumer demand (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
• reform: permanent, avoid future disasters (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp)

Question 12

Democratic Coalition

Answer 12

• white southerners
• farmers
• industrial workers
• african-americans

Question 13

A. Philip Randolph

Answer 13

• 1941 march on washington for jobs and freedom

- four freedoms/jim crow

Question 14

Executive Order 8802

Answer 14

-outlaw discriminatory hiring in defense plants but army segregated

Question 15

Executive Order 9066

Answer 15

remove Japanese from west coast, internment camps

Question 16

Civil Rights Movement

Answer 16

• grassroots
• emmett till
• Political Women’s Council
• Bus boycotts
• SCLC
• SNCC
• sit ins
• 1961 Freedom Rides
• 1963 march on washington mlk
• 1964 civil rights act
• 1965 SCLC march (bloody sunday)
• 1965 voting rights act

Question 17

SCLC

Answer 17

• southern christian leadership conference
• mlk
• nonviolent mass movement

Question 18

SNCC

Answer 18

*Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 19

1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Answer 19

• MLK

* inspired by 1941 March/A. Philip Randolph

Question 20

MFDP

Answer 20

• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

* Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 21

Fannie Lou Hamer

Answer 21

• testified for MFDP

* arrested and beaten in jail, sexual assault

Question 22

Voting Rights Act 1965

Answer 22

• no literacy test
• empower federal registrars to enroll voters
• 9 states receive pre-clearance from Washington by changing voting laws
• Reversed in Shelby vs. Holder

Question 23

Johnson’s Great Society

Answer 23

1964

• liberty, racial justice, poverty
• war on poverty

Question 24

“time to break the silence” mlk

Answer 24

• 1967
• vietnam war hurting war on poverty
• manipulation of the poor

Question 25

Stokely Carmichael "what we want"

Answer 25

* 1966 * political power * integration: assimilation * civil rights no addressing poverty

Question 26

1965 Watts Riots

Answer 26

*unemployment, education, police brutality

Question 27

Kerner Report 1968

Answer 27

* segregation and poverty * housing discrimination * racial ghettos

Question 28

MLK Poor Ppl's March on D.C.

Answer 28

* painted as communist bcuz redistribution of wealth | * interracial poor (bacon & shay's rebellions)

Question 29

Malcolm X

Answer 29

* black nationalism | * like Marcus Garvey

Question 30

Black Panther Party

Answer 30

* empowerment | * police brutality

Question 31

Brown Berets

Answer 31

Chicanos

Question 32

American Indian Movement

Answer 32

*occupy Alcatraz island

Question 33

Betty Friedan

Answer 33

problem that has no name | feminist mystique

Question 34

Silent Majority

Answer 34

white middle class conservatives

Question 35

Title IX

Answer 35

no discrimination based on sex, etc

Question 36

1973 Roe vs. Wade

Answer 36

abortion rights

Question 37

Bob Dole

Answer 37

* affirmative action unfair | * color blind society

Question 38

7 myths about affirmative action by Lee C. Bollinger

Answer 38

1. race significant 2. diversity 3. diversity helps 4. college applicants valued for contributions 5. gap not too big 6. diversity/no other way/color blind stupid 7. not unfair to whites, unequal funding for black schools

Question 39

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 39

* women privileged * family values, babies * christian chivalry