Unit 9.2 Civil Rights in the 1950s

Question 1

United States general policy toward Communism. We can't destroy it, so stop it from spreading.

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Containment

Question 2

This group was responsible for the day-to-day management of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)

Question 3

This group was set to integrate a school in Arkansas. Prevented by the National Guard.

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Little Rock 9

Question 4

Cold War aid provided to European countries who did not have Communist governments.

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Marshall Plan

Question 5

This Civil Rights leader hailed from Atlanta, GA; was a Baptist minister; and headed the MIA.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 6

This protest went through Southern towns that still enforced segregation on public buses.

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Freedom Riders

Question 7

This Civil Rights group is most closely associated with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 8

This social construct involves separating people according to their race.

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Segregation

Question 9

These groups in the South sought to undermine and subvert the ruling to desegregate schools.

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White Citizens' Councils

Question 10

This protest began after Rosa Parks' arrest in December 1955 and lasted for 377 days.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 11

This President used the the 101st Airborne Division to ensure the Little Rock 9 got to classes.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 12

This Supreme Court ruling officially declared school segregation unconstitutional.

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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Question 13

The movement of 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, West, and midwest.

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2nd Great Migration

Question 14

This group, founded by TRM Howard fought for Civil Rights. Accepted separate, demanded equal.

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National Council of Negro Leadership (NCNL)

Question 15

Truman's Executive Order #9981......

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Ended segregation the the armed forces.

Question 16

The political/military strategy of pursuing an dangerous policy to the brink of war.

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Brinkmanship

Question 17

Protest in which protestors occupy a space and refuse to leave until their demands are met.

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Sit-In

Question 18

Protest where all commercial activity with a business is stopped until demands are met.

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Boycott

Question 19

Using the court system to settle disputes. Hallmark of the NAACP in the 1950s.

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Litigation

Question 20

An economic and political system based on government ownership of business and industry.

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Communism

Question 21

Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in March 1955.

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Claudette Colvin

Question 22

This Supreme Court ruling established the precedent of legalized segregation of the races.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 23

Peaceful refusal to follow laws considered to be unjust.

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Civil Disobedience

Question 24

Appealing directly to politicians in an attempt to influence public policy or laws.

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Lobbying

Question 25

This strategy set the US up to help any country that was struggling against Communism.

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The Truman Doctrine

Unit 9.2 Civil Rights in the 1950s

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Unit 9.2 Civil Rights in the 1950s

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