Unit #3, Changing America, History

Question 1

What factors led to changing patterns of society post- WWII era?

Answer 1

The U.S had a stronger economy

Question 2

What policies and programs expanded education ad employment opportunities for military, women, and minorities?

Answer 2

The G.T Bill of Rights

Question 3

What were some effects of segregation and desegregation on American society?

Answer 3

Separate education, restrooms, water fountains

Question 4

How did African-American struggle for equality become a mass movement?

Answer 4

Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board, Boycotts, Sit-ins

Question 5

How did the law support the struggle for equality for African-Americans?

Answer 5

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 6

How were women disadvantaged in the work place?

Answer 6

They wouldn’t hire them, lower wages

Question 7

What actions were took to improve conditions for women

Answer 7

National Organization of Women

Question 8

What industries benefited from the most new technologies?

Answer 8

Airlines, entertainment, internet

Question 9

What impact did the new technologies have on American life?

Answer 9

increased travel, greater news access

Question 10

What was the “baby boom” and how did it change American society?

Answer 10

There was a big population growth

Question 11

Who created the highway?

Answer 11

Eisenhower (president at time) over saw it

Question 12

Why did African- Americans desire equal opportunities?

Answer 12

racism led to limited jobs for blacks

Question 13

What changes in immigration patterns occurred during WWII?

Answer 13

fewer Europeans emigrated from the U.S

Question 14

What U.S president desegregated the military

Answer 14

Truman

Question 15

Segregation

Answer 15

Separation of races

Question 16

Desegregation

Answer 16

ending segregation

Question 17

Integration

Answer 17

bringing the races together

Question 18

Racism

Answer 18

hatred towards another culture/race

Question 19

Discrimination

Answer 19

favoring one race over the other

Question 20

Equal Opportunity

Answer 20

allowing people to have the same opportunities

Question 21

Boycott

Answer 21

to refuse or stop using a product or a company

Question 22

What was decided in the Brown v. Board of education decision

Answer 22

There was no separate but equal, and schools would have to integrate

Question 23

Civil Rights Leader

Answer 23

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 24

Arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man

Answer 24

Rosa Parks

Question 25

Leader of Islam

Answer 25

Malcolm X (xmen)

Question 26

People gathered to hear M.L.K's speach

Answer 26

March on Washington, 1963

Question 27

9 black students went to an all white school

Answer 27

Litte Rock Nine, 1957

Question 28

A bus boycott for Rosa Parks

Answer 28

Montgomery, 1955

Question 29

Sit-ins

Answer 29

Greensboro,1960

Question 30

What is the NAACP

Answer 30

They fought segregation laws in the court system

Question 31

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do for African- Americans

Answer 31

It made segregation illegal in public places

Question 32

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do

Answer 32

It made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal

Question 33

How have immigration patterns changed after WWII

Answer 33

More Hispanics, More Asians, Les Europeans

Question 34

What were/are the disadvantages faced by women in the workplace

Answer 34

Less pay, working in the undergrounds, Same job but less pay for women

Question 35

What has helped bring equal opportunities for women

Answer 35

NOW, federal rights, equal rights act

Question 36

How have these conditions for women been improved?

Answer 36

They get better jobs, higher wages