Civil Rights Movement, Social Change, and Vietnam War Notes

To eliminate segregation from the american way of life was a goal for the ____.

Civil Rights Movement

_____ Overturned Plessy V. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

Plessy v. Ferguson _ individuals a social opportunity to….

Denied

Images of peaceful protected and violent responses gained sympathy for the _ outside the south.

Civil Rights Movement

Nonviolent protesters were victims of violence and aggression during the ________, _______, and _______.

Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, March on Selma

________ and ______ highlight the lack of voting rights for African Americans.

Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer

The ________ ended discrimination based on race or sex.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

The ________ banned the use of literacy tests in order to register voters by preventing states from changing voting practices

Voting Rights Act of 1965

______ believed blacks must be truly free from white oppression and blacks must control their own economic, social, and political institutions.

Black Power

Black panthers advocated for a ________ and believed in using ________ unlike MLK.

Military approach, violence

Malcolm X and WEB Dubois both believed that African Americans should empower themselves _______.

Politically

______ is defined as the equality of men and women

Feminism

Betty Friedan's ______ energized a new women's rights movement.

The Feminine Mystique

______: equality of rights under the law shall not be denied by the US for any state on the basis of sex

ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

The ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) failed because of backlash led by ____.

Conservatives

_____ protects women's right in the matter of privacy to abortion.

Roe v. Wade

Cesar Chavez organized a union for _____

Farm workers

By reversing the ______, it gave Native Americans more control over resources and education.

Dawes Act

Lyndon B Johnson wanted to provide a higher standard of living for the poorest citizens through _____.

The Great Society

Great Deal, Great Society, and the Progressive Movement share the common belief that the US government should _______ its involvement in the economy to improve people's lives.

Increase

_______: The Supreme Court decision defined the rights for criminals and expanded the rights for individuals.

Warren Court

The _____ goals are to protect the environment/earth.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The _____ aimed to stop the spread of communism and contain southeast Asia.

Domino Theory

The _____ led to heighten US involvement in Vietnam.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The _____ was viewed as unfair because deferments were given to college students.

Vietnam War draft system

The _______ made Americans realized the Vietnam war was not going as well as the government led them to believe and led to a shift in public opinion against the war.

Tet Offensive

Richard Nixon promised to ____ if elected.

Withdraw all troops

The goal of ____ was to replace american troops with Vietnamese troops.

Vietnamization

The ______ caused greater distrust because the papers confirmed that the government was misrepresenting what happened in Vietnam.

Pentagon Papers

______ policy can be altered by public opinion.

Foreign

The purpose of Richard Nixon's policy of _____ was to ease tensions between the US and the Soviet Union.

Détente