What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act?
fight discrimination based on race and sex
What type of school groups benefited from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
Inner City
The Warren Court often made rulings that ________ civil liberties
Supported
What program provides health care to the elderly?
Medicare
What did the first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma become known as?
Bloody Sunday
What civil rights leader joined the Nation of Islam in 1952 to promote black nationalism and rejected nonviolence as a strategy to bring about change?
Malcolm X
How did the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s affect American society?
Individuals talked openly about sex
What festival popularized a new generation of rock 'n' roll musicians?
Woodstock
One of the interests that defined the counterculture was
Eastern Spirituality
What book energized a new women's rights movement in the 1960s?
The Feminine Mystique
True or False: N.O.W focused on defeating the ERA
False
True or False: N.O.W focused on protecting reproductive rights
True
What do Roe v. Wade decision, Equal Pay Act, and Title IX all have in common?
Legal gains achieved by women's movement
What movement increased Latino's awareness of their history and culture?
Chicano Movement
One similarity between the actions Samuel Gompers and Cesar Chavez is that both leaders ________
Organized workers to strive for better conditions
Who founded the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
Cesar Chavez
What tactics did the American Indian Movement use to confront the government?
A march from San Francisco to Washington, D.C
In 1969, why did American Indians occupy Alcatraz?
To call attention to broken treaties
What group fought for the rights of Native Americans?
AIM
Which of the following directly benefited people with disabilities?
A) The Pure Food and Drug Act
B) Unsafe at Any Speed
C) The Special Olympics
C
Why was the Kerner Commission formed?
Investigate the causes of race riots in the US
What did the Freedom Riders accomplish?
Integration of public transportation
Who was the first to engage in non-violent sit ins of lunch counters in 1960?
North Carolina A&T freshmen
What tactic was used to integrate lunch counters?
Nonviolent sit-ins
On what point did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X agree?
End of segregation and discrimination needed to end