UNIT 9 TEST REVIEW GPS U.S. History. SSCG 21 Post World War II: Domestic Changes Huge growth of population after WWII from mid 1940s – 1960s? Baby Boom.

UNIT 9 TEST REVIEWGPS U.S. History

SSCG 21

Post World War II: Domestic Changes

Huge growth of population after WWII from mid 1940s

– 1960s?

Baby Boom


Baby Boom contributed to?

Levittowns


First master-planned community in America located on New York’s Long Island?

Levittown


Congressional authorized Construction of a national

network of highways to connect every major city in America?

Interstate Highway Act


This was a major reason that Eisenhower pushed for the

Interstate Highway Act?

National Defense


The Interstate Highway Act also improve this type of

transportation?

Travel from Suburbs to City


For the first time in U.S. History the 1960 Presidential election

was influenced by this?

Television


The two candidates in the1960 Presidential debate that was

televised?

Kennedy/Nixon


This caused many in the U.S. to become sympathetic to the

Civil Rights movement?

News Coverage


This changed communication in the United States from home

to home?

Personal Computer / Internet


The Personal Computer (Internet) caused what to happen internationally?

Increase in Business


This improved communication throughout the United States?

Cellular Phone


Cell phone & Personal computer caused this in the

United States?

Communications Revolution


This permitted more tolerable working conditions in

skyscrapers and other buildings used to conduct business?

Air Conditioning

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U.S. President responsible for integrating the U.S. Military

and the Federal Government?

President Harry Truman


Organizing government jobs and military positions regardless of race?

Integration


Harry Truman’s action integrating the federal

government?

Executive Order 9980


Harry Truman’s action integrating the U.S. Military?

Executive Order 9981


First African American to integrate professional

baseball?

Jackie Robinson


Team Jackie Robinson played for when integrated professional sports?

Brooklyn Dodgers


U.S. Supreme Court decision that integrates Schools

throughout the United States?

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)


Browned reversed the decision in this case?

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)


Plessy established this legal principle?

“Separate but Equal” doctrine


Arkansas Governor that resisted the Brown decision?

Orval Faubus


Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used this to keep black kids from going to

school with whites?

National Guard


Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block black students

entrance to this school?

Little Rock’s Central High School


President that reacted to Governor Faubus’ resistance to

Brown?

President Eisenhower


President Eisenhower responded this way to Little Rock incident in Arkansas?

Forced Integration with U.S. Military


The Civil Rights leader from Atlanta Georgia?

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Letter from Birmingham Jail


Letter from Birmingham Jail justified the use of?

Disobeying unjust laws as a strategy of

social activism


The disobeying of unjust laws as a strategy of social activism

is called?

Civil Disobedience


Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed this group of people in his Letter from Birmingham

Jail?

White Ministers


Martin Luther King, Jr. defended use of this in his

Letter from Birmingham Jail?

Civil Disobedience / Protest & Demonstrations


Made by MLK, Jr. in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial asking for peace and

racial harmony?

“I have a dream” speech


Law that prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender; Ended Jim Crow?

Civil Rights Act of 1964


This motivated Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of

1964?

Assassination of John F. Kennedy


Outlawed literacy tests and created programs to register minority voters in the South;

Justice Department to oversee voting is fair?

Voting Rights Act of 1965


This prohibits segregation in public places?



Southern resistance to African Americans participation in

voting resulted in this?

Voting Rights Act of 1965

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During the 1950’s and 1960s, one of the most liberal

Supreme Courts; Issued Brown (1954), Miranda (1963)?

Warren Court


U.S. Supreme Court case that said police must inform

suspects of their constitutional rights at the time of arrest?

Miranda v. Arizona


The Warren Court expanded this during the 1950s and the

1960s liberal movement?

Individual Rights


This tragedy happened in 1963 in Dallas Texas, but helped push Civil Rights legislation through Congress in 1964?

Assassination of John F. Kennedy


This Vice President become President of the United States

after JFK’s assassination?

Lyndon B. Johnson


President Johnson had this due to the assassination of JFK and

used it to push his domestic package through Congress?

Political Capital


This is the name of President Johnson’s Domestic plan?

Great Society Program


The Great Society Program declared this throughout the

U.S.?

War on Poverty


This was part of the Great Society Program and offered

medical help to elderly people?

Medicare


This year was full of social and political turmoil in the United

States?

1968


In 1968, this televised event in Vietnam caused many to

oppose the war with public protests?

Tet Offensive


The event resulted in many African Americans rioting in

cities across the U.S.?

Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination


This was passed by Congress one week after MLK, Jr’s death and prevented discrimination in

housing?



This individual was killed while running for President and supported Civil Rights and withdrawal from Vietnam in

1968?

Robert F. Kennedy


This made people wander if the American form of government

could tolerate dissent?

Democratic National Convention


This televised riot in 1968 showed police in riot gear

beating anti-war rioters and spraying them with tear gas?

Democratic National Convention

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Founded by MLK, Jr. to carry out nonviolent marches, protests, demonstrations

against racial discrimination; remains nonviolent?

SCLC


Founded by African American college students, used sit-ins,

Freedom rides, originally nonviolent but turned militant in the “black power” movement?

SNCC


Rides on buses in southern states to see if laws against

segregation would be enforced on buses?

Freedom Rides


Whites and blacks would sit together at lunch counters

across south to oppose segregation in public cafes?

Sit-Ins


Modern feminist organization created to promote equal

rights and opportunities for Women?

NOW


Book written that stated that it was a myth that women

wanted to be a domesticated house wife and not enter

professional careers?

Feminine Mystique


Author of Feminine Mystique and a leader of the National

Organization for Women (NOW)?

Betty Friedan


Main goal of the National Organization for Women

(NOW)?

Equal pay; Equal opportunity in the

Workforce


Mexican American civil rights leader for Hispanic immigrant

farm laborers?

Cesar Chavez


Chavez founded this movement to used nonviolent protest to

promote the rights of Hispanic workers?

United Farm Workers (UFW)


Cesar Chavez used this non-violent strategy to get grape

growers to negotiate a contract with the UFW?

Boycott


This is the product that Cesar Chavez and UFW boycotted?

California Table Grapes


This individual became the leader of the Modern

Environmental Movement?

Rachel Carson


Rachel Carson was the author of this book?

Silent Spring


Silent Spring led the environment movement by

opposing use of this in farming?

Chemicals/Pesticides


Silent Spring led the environment movement by

opposing use of this particular insecticide?

DDT


April 22 intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for

the earth’s environment?

Earth Day


Federal Agency with the purpose of enforcing laws

aimed at maintaining a safe and clean environment?

Environmental Protection Agency


Movement to turn back (Backlash) liberal agendas by cutting social welfare, taxes,

decrease the size of government?

Conservative Movement


This candidate won the Republican nomination for

President in 1964 signaling the rise of the Conservative

Movement?

Barry Goldwater


This conservative won the President Election of 1968?

Richard Nixon

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1973 Supreme Court case that said women had a 4th

Amendment Privacy right to Abortion within the first trimester of Pregnancy?

Roe v. Wade


1978 Supreme Court case that said race could be used when

considering applications to college?

Bakke v. University of California


The Supreme Court, in the Bakke case, said that this was unconstitutional and could not be used in considering college

applications?

Quota System


This concept refers to preferential hiring practices of African Americans and other

Minorities?

Affirmative Action

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