U.S. History Unit 10 Review
2012-2013
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UNIT 10 REVIEW: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1954 TO 1968
1)
Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and
the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives, when
referring to the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, said it was “Morally
mandatory – that the judiciary continue to disassemble the barrier to racial equality.”
2)
Betty Friedan wrote a book, The Feminine Mystique, in an effort to allow women to choose the
lifestyles they wanted. It was a major influence on women’s rights in the 1960s.
3)
Birth of the NAACP and SCLC, desegregation of schools and the army, non-violent protests
against discrimination were all part of the civil rights movements during the 20th century. The
first Hispanic on the Supreme Court occurred at the beginning of the 21st century.
4)
Both Eleanor Roosevelt and Dolores Huerta advocated for people’s basic rights.
5)
César Chávez championed the economic rights of migrant workers.
6)
Chief Justice Earl Warren, in the Opinion of the Court for Brown v. the Board of Education,
wrote “We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has
no place…”
7)
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby was a landmark case in Texas education that redistributed property
taxes to poorer districts and led to “Robin Hood” legislation.
8)
Fourteenth amendment grants citizenship and the Fifteenth amendment voting rights.
9)
George Wallace ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket in 1968 with a
campaign platform that was against federal government power and for segregation.
10)
If you were a historian working on labeling eras in U.S. history, you would examine the following
characteristics when deciding on a time period and a classifying concept: political forces
economic commonality, and social changes and characteristics.
11)
In Tinker v. Des Moines, the court’s 7 to 2 decision held that the First Amendment applied to
public schools, and that administrators would have to demonstrate constitutionally valid reasons
for any specific regulation of speech in the classroom.
12)
Lobbying Congress may include petitioning, speaking to lawmakers, writing to senators, or
suggesting legislation.
13)
LULAC, NOW, and AIW were all groups who worked to expand economic and political rights for
minorities.
U.S. History Unit 10 Review
2012-2013
14)
Martin Luther King, Jr. is most closely associated with the 1963 March on Washington as well
as winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
15)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 (April 4, 1968)
16)
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech inspired many people, giving strength and
momentum to the Civil Rights movement.
17)
Medicare, Head Start, and Upward Bound were all part of the Great Society program.
18)
Mendez v. Westminster : racial segregation in California :: Delgado V. Bastrop ISD : racial
segregation in Texas.
19)
NAACP: African Americans :: LULAC: Hispanics
20)
Of the following groups: Black Panthers, SCLC, NAACP, and Core, only the Black Panther used
protest strategies to achieve equal rights.
21)
Supporters of the Great Society, affirmative action, and Title IX argued that they were needed
and expand economic opportunity for many.
22)
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote (beginning in 1920).
23)
The 24th Amendment allowed a large increase in the number of voters in the United States.
24)
The 26th Amendment was a result of the Vietnam War in which citizens were being drafted into
the military at 18, but were not allowed to vote.
25)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 differed from earlier attempts to address minority rights by focusing
on ending discrimination in the work place.
26)
The Congressional group of senators that attempted to block civil rights reforms in the 1950s
and early 1960s were primarily southern Democrats.
27)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954) both occurred in
the 1950s.
28)
Thurgood Marshall was a distinguished lawyer for the NAACP, support of the rights of
Americans with little voice in government, and a justice of the Supreme Court.
29)
Voting rights legislation, racial discrimination, leaders emerging from ordinary circumstances to
be symbols for civil rights are all characteristics of the Civil Rights Era.
Total Number of Test Questions: 29