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Name some of the effects of segregation.
- Separate educational facilities and resources for white and African American students
- Separate public facilities
- Social isolation of races
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What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
"Separate but equal"
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What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
Desegregation of schools
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Describe Martin Luther King's philosophy?
Passive resistance
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What was Martin Luther King's speech called?
"I Have A Dream"
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What is Rosa Parks known for?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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What events started the Civil Rights Movement?
Sit-ins, protests, and boycotts
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What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (Civil Rights vs. Jim Crow Laws)
Act that banned segregation
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What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965? (Voting Rights = No more tests)
Got rid of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
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What does NOW stand for?
National Organization for Women
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What was the Equal Rights Amendment?
An amendment that created a wider range of options for women and African Americans
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Who were the Freedom Riders? What did they want?
People who wanted equal transportation rights
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What was integration?
Races were not seperated (opposite of segregation)
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Who / What president desegregated the Armed Forces?
President Truman
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What did Americans turn their energies to after the Cold War? (Industries benefitting from New Tech)
Airline industry, cars / interstate industry, entertainment / news, space exploration, and computers
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List all the industries (6) that benefited from the new technologies.
Airline, automobile, entertainment, space, computer, and satellite
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How did satellites help the development of wireless communication?
They made communication more instant and wireless
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What are Telecommunications? (Give examples)
Pagers, cell phones, televisions
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Why was there a decrease in regional variation of information? Did everyone in the U.S. get the same news?
Everyone watched the news and heard the same information
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What's the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery
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What's the 14th Amendment?
Gave full citizenship to those who were born in the United States
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What's the 15th Amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote
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List the 6 Reconstruction Policies of the South.
- Southern military leaders could not hold office
- African American could not hold public office
- African Americans gained equal rights
- Northern soldiers supervised the south
- Freedman’s Bureau
- Southerners resented Northern “carpetbaggers”
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What was the impact of President Lincoln after the Civil War?
His reconstruction plan called for reconciliation and he wanted to preserve the U.S. more than punishing the South
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What happened when Reconstruction ended?
Federal troops were removed and rights that African Americans gained were lost with Black Codes
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What did Lee do at the end of the Civil War?
He reunited Americans
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What did Frederick Douglass do at the end of the Civil War?
He fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights
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