Test+Book+questions+and+answers+for+Civil+Rights+Era

Malcolm X || Freedom Summer 1965: voter registration guide in Selma, Voting Rights Act 1966: SCLC protests in Chicago 1968: King assassinated ||
 * Page 814 Reading History question A || * The Brown decision might lead to the end of segregation because if educational facilities segregated by race were not equal, the same was true of other public facilities ||
 * Page 815 Reading History question B || * Important results of the Montgomery Bus boycotts:
 * It ended segregation on Montgomery’s buses, led to the founding of the SCLC and made Dr. King a recognized civil rights leader ||
 * Page 815 picture question || * King was well suited to lead a non violent protest because he believed love, not violence, would convert people to the side of justice
 * He was a brilliant speaker for the Civil rights movement
 * MLK was very courageous ||
 * Picture question page 816 || * The picture of Elizabeth Eckford shows an angry – out of control people screaming at a young woman trying to walk to school ||
 * Reading History C question page 817 || * African Americans were able to end discrimination at many lunch counters by staging nonviolent sit ins to demonstrate publicly their disapproval of discrimination ||
 * Page 817 #1 || * Thurgood Marshall
 * Brown V Board of Education of Topeka
 * Montgomery Bus boycott
 * Dr. Martin Luther King
 * SCLC
 * Sit in
 * SNCC ||
 * Objectives of 29-1 || * Identify factors that contributed to the civil rights movement
 * Explain the significance of Brown V Board of Education of Topeka
 * Analyze the effects for Civil Rights victories
 * Describe the process of school desegregation in Little Rock and the numerous sit ins through the South ||
 * Page 817 #2 || * Brown V Board of Ed: Challenged School segregation
 * Montgomery Bus Boycott: Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional
 * Little Rock: governor sends troops to prevent integration; Eisenhower sends troops to enforce integration
 * Sit ins: college students try to desegregate lunch counters ||
 * Page 817 #3a || * WWII helped lead to Civil Rights movement:
 * African Americans who had fought for freedom in Europe wanted it in America ||
 * Page 817 #3b || * Thurgood Marshall played an important role in challenging Segregation :
 * He was the lawyer for the NAACP and he trid the court case of Brown V. Board of Education ||
 * Page 817 #3c || * Martin Luther King became a well known Civil rights leader because of his eloquence in helping to persuade others to extend the Montgomery bus boycott and he displayed courage when his life was threatened ||
 * Page 817 #4 || * Civil Rights protesters v Southern whites
 * Many Southern whites turned to hate and violence unlike the civil rights protesters who used peaceful and legal methods to challenge Civil rights ||
 * Objectives of 29-2 || * To describe president Johnson’s role in the Civil Rights movement
 * To explain divisions in the Civil Rights movement ||
 * Page 823 #1 || * Freedom Ride
 * CORE
 * March on Washington
 * Civil Rights act of 1964
 * Freedom Summer
 * Voting Rights act
 * Great Society
 * Page 823 #2 || * 1960: Kennedy Elected president
 * 1961 CORE starts freedom rides
 * 1963: March on Washington
 * 1964 Civil Rights act
 * Page 823 #3a || * Civil Rights workers thought Birmingham was a goos place to protest because they Knew Bull Conner would probably act violently and that would gain publicity ||
 * Page 823 #3b || * Civil Rights workers worked to improve African American's voting rights by taking part in Freedom Summer and they led protests in Selma Ala. ||
 * Page 823 #3c || * The Civil Rights movement began to break apart because some African Americans abandoned non violence and the Nation of Islam called for blacks to separate from whites ||
 * Page 823 #4 || * African Americans place so much importance on the right to vote because
 * They could use the vote to elect African Americans to office and to vote for candidates who favored civil rights legislation ||
 * Objectives for 29-3 || * Describe how Mexican Americans organized to promote reforms
 * To compare the political differences between Hispanic Americans
 * To describe the goals and successes of Native American Protests for rights and recognition
 * To evaluate reasons for the Women’s rights movement and to describe the efforts to win rights for women ||
 * Page 827 #1 || * Cesar Chavez
 * National Congress of American Indians
 * Betty Freidan
 * NOW
 * ERA ||
 * P 827 #2 || * Mexican Americans: La Raza United fought to elect Chicanos;
 * Native Americans: issued the declaration of Indian purpose, self determination act of 1975
 * Women: publication of the Feminine Mystique, founded NOW; Equal rights laws opened new political and economic opportunities for women ||
 * Page 827 #3a || * LA RAZA UNIDA was a Mexican American organization that fought for better conditions for Mexican Americans in government ||
 * Page 827 #3b || * The Declaration of Indian Purpose was a statement in which Native Americans demanded rights and responsibilities to preserve their way of life ||
 * Page 827 #3c || * Betty Fridan helped to launch the women's liberation movement by writing the Feminine Mystique and she helped form NOW ||
 * Page 827 #4 || * Different opinions on of ERA:
 * NOW supported the ERA and campaigned actively for it
 * Conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly opposed it and tried to convince people that is would harm the nation ||
 * Page 829 # 1a || * In his speech, “I have a dream” MLK declares the United States in not living up to it creed.
 * Although the Declaration of Independence stated that all men were created equal, many Americans still faced discrimination and inequality because of the color of their skin. ||
 * Page 829 # 1b || * In order for the nation to be truly great, MLK says all Americans, including African Americans, must enjoy the same freedoms ||
 * Page 829 # 1c || * Cesar Chavez referred to King in his Open Letter because he wanted to point out that the farm workers also followed non violence like King.
 * Page 829 # 2 || * Comparing and contrasting :
 * Chavez was trying to solve economic problems while King’s focus was on political and legal problems. Both leaders expressed their hopes that all people would be free.
 * Page 828 Closer look question #1 || * King referred to Lincoln’s speech because he wanted to convince people that the civil rights movement is a continuation of the work done by Lincoln
 * Page 828 Closer look question #2 || * People can only live the American Dream if they have Civil Rights.
 * Page 828 Closer look question #3 || * Civil Rights workers were willing to go to jail to show their respect for the law while standing up against what they believed.
 * Page 829 Closer look question #1 || * Farm workers wanted to form unions.
 * Without a union, farm workers would have a hard time bargaining with the large businesses that employed them
 * Page 828 Closer look question #3 || * Civil Rights workers were willing to go to jail to show their respect for the law while standing up against what they believed.
 * Page 829 Closer look question #1 || * Farm workers wanted to form unions.
 * Without a union, farm workers would have a hard time bargaining with the large businesses that employed them
 * Page 829 Closer look question #1 || * Farm workers wanted to form unions.
 * Without a union, farm workers would have a hard time bargaining with the large businesses that employed them