Unit 6 Review - Civil Rights Movement and Social Changes

Question 1

________ is when a bank/agent denies a creditworthy/eligible applicant a loan for housing in a certain neighborhood

Accepted Answer

Redlining

Question 2

The ADA was passed by Congress in 1990. What does ADA stand for?

Accepted Answer

Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 3

_____________ is the action of deliberately breaking laws that the person/group considers unjust.

Accepted Answer

Civil Disobedience

Question 4

The 1969 Stonewall Riot was a major event in which social movement?

Accepted Answer

Gay liberation

Question 5

What is the name of the 1896 Supreme Court Case that states that race-base segregation IS allowed.

Accepted Answer

Plessy v Fergusson

Question 6

Which group of Americans historically faces the highest rates of poverty, addiction, and domestic violence?

Accepted Answer

Native Americans

Question 7

Each of the following Civil Rights EVENTS utilized nonviolent resistence EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

Urban Riots of the "Long Hot Summer"

Question 8

Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I have a deam" speech?

Accepted Answer

Washington, D.C.

Question 9

In the book "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson criticizes which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Pesticides, such as DDT

Question 10

Who was associated with the Nation of Islam (he later left the group)?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 11

In which year was the Voting Rights Act passed (following the Marches at Selma)?

Accepted Answer

1965

Question 12

Which area of American society was first to integrate?

Accepted Answer

Sports - leagues include all athletes

Question 13

Each of the following Civil Rights GROUPS typically utilized nonviolent resistence EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

The Black Panther Party (BPP)

Question 14

How did the President respond to the violence of the "Long Hot Summer" of 1967 (the Urban Riots)?

Accepted Answer

He created the Kerner Commission

Question 15

Loving v Virginia is a Supreme Court case that ended segregation in...

Accepted Answer

Marriage

Question 16

Which Amendment, passed shortly after the end of the Civil War, ended slavery?

Accepted Answer

13th

Question 17

Which social change movement is César Chávez associated with?

Accepted Answer

Chicano/Latino

Question 18

What effect did Executive Order 9981 have on American society?

Accepted Answer

It integrated the US Military

Question 19

Unlike the Second-Wave Feminist Movement of the 1960s/70s, the FIRST-Wave of the late-1800s and early-1900s focus on...

Accepted Answer

Women's suffrage (right to vote)

Question 20

Which figure emerged as a Civil Rights Leader due to their involvement in organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 21

Segregation BY LAW is called what?

Accepted Answer

De Jure

Question 22

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique, which is often credited with beginning the Second-Wave Feminist Movement of the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Betty Friedan

Question 23

Designing voting districts boundaries to give one politcal party a clear advantage is called _______.

Accepted Answer

Gerrymandering

Question 24

All of the following are associated with the integration of schools EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

The March on Washington

Question 25

What deadly event is largely credited with beginning the activism of the Civil Rights Movement?

Accepted Answer

The Murder of Emmett Till

Unit 6 Review - Civil Rights Movement and Social Changes

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