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UNIT 9 TEST REVIEWGPS U.S. History
SSCG 21
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Huge growth of population after WWII from mid 1940s
– 1960s?
Baby Boom
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Baby Boom contributed to?
Levittowns
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
First master-planned community in America located on New York’s Long Island?
Levittown
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Congressional authorized Construction of a national
network of highways to connect every major city in America?
Interstate Highway Act
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This was a major reason that Eisenhower pushed for the
Interstate Highway Act?
National Defense
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Interstate Highway Act also improve this type of
transportation?
Travel from Suburbs to City
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
For the first time in U.S. History the 1960 Presidential election
was influenced by this?
Television
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The two candidates in the1960 Presidential debate that was
televised?
Kennedy/Nixon
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This caused many in the U.S. to become sympathetic to the
Civil Rights movement?
News Coverage
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This changed communication in the United States from home
to home?
Personal Computer / Internet
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Personal Computer (Internet) caused what to happen internationally?
Increase in Business
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This improved communication throughout the United States?
Cellular Phone
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Cell phone & Personal computer caused this in the
United States?
Communications Revolution
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This permitted more tolerable working conditions in
skyscrapers and other buildings used to conduct business?
Air Conditioning
SSCG 22
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
U.S. President responsible for integrating the U.S. Military
and the Federal Government?
President Harry Truman
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Organizing government jobs and military positions regardless of race?
Integration
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Harry Truman’s action integrating the federal
government?
Executive Order 9980
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Harry Truman’s action integrating the U.S. Military?
Executive Order 9981
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
First African American to integrate professional
baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Team Jackie Robinson played for when integrated professional sports?
Brooklyn Dodgers
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
U.S. Supreme Court decision that integrates Schools
throughout the United States?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Browned reversed the decision in this case?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Plessy established this legal principle?
“Separate but Equal” doctrine
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Arkansas Governor that resisted the Brown decision?
Orval Faubus
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used this to keep black kids from going to
school with whites?
National Guard
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block black students
entrance to this school?
Little Rock’s Central High School
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
President that reacted to Governor Faubus’ resistance to
Brown?
President Eisenhower
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
President Eisenhower responded this way to Little Rock incident in Arkansas?
Forced Integration with U.S. Military
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Civil Rights leader from Atlanta Georgia?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Post World War II: Domestic ChangesLetter from Birmingham Jail
justified the use of?
Disobeying unjust laws as a strategy of
social activism
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The disobeying of unjust laws as a strategy of social activism
is called?
Civil Disobedience
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed this group of people in his Letter from Birmingham
Jail?
White Ministers
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Martin Luther King, Jr. defended use of this in his
Letter from Birmingham Jail?
Civil Disobedience / Protest & Demonstrations
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Made by MLK, Jr. in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial asking for peace and
racial harmony?
“I have a dream” speech
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Law that prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender; Ended Jim Crow?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This motivated Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of
1964?
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Outlawed literacy tests and created programs to register minority voters in the South;
Justice Department to oversee voting is fair?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This prohibits segregation in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Southern resistance to African Americans participation in
voting resulted in this?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
SSCG 23
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
During the 1950’s and 1960s, one of the most liberal
Supreme Courts; Issued Brown (1954), Miranda (1963)?
Warren Court
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
U.S. Supreme Court case that said police must inform
suspects of their constitutional rights at the time of arrest?
Miranda v. Arizona
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Warren Court expanded this during the 1950s and the
1960s liberal movement?
Individual Rights
Post World War II: Domestic ChangesThis tragedy happened in 1963
in Dallas Texas, but helped push Civil Rights legislation through Congress in 1964?
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This Vice President become President of the United States
after JFK’s assassination?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
President Johnson had this due to the assassination of JFK and
used it to push his domestic package through Congress?
Political Capital
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This is the name of President Johnson’s Domestic plan?
Great Society Program
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Great Society Program declared this throughout the
U.S.?
War on Poverty
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This was part of the Great Society Program and offered
medical help to elderly people?
Medicare
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This year was full of social and political turmoil in the United
States?
1968
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
In 1968, this televised event in Vietnam caused many to
oppose the war with public protests?
Tet Offensive
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The event resulted in many African Americans rioting in
cities across the U.S.?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This was passed by Congress one week after MLK, Jr’s death and prevented discrimination in
housing?
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This individual was killed while running for President and supported Civil Rights and withdrawal from Vietnam in
1968?
Robert F. Kennedy
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This made people wander if the American form of government
could tolerate dissent?
Democratic National Convention
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This televised riot in 1968 showed police in riot gear
beating anti-war rioters and spraying them with tear gas?
Democratic National Convention
SSCG 24
Post World War II: Domestic ChangesFounded by MLK, Jr. to carry
out nonviolent marches, protests, demonstrations
against racial discrimination; remains nonviolent?
SCLC
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Founded by African American college students, used sit-ins,
Freedom rides, originally nonviolent but turned militant in the “black power” movement?
SNCC
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Rides on buses in southern states to see if laws against
segregation would be enforced on buses?
Freedom Rides
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Whites and blacks would sit together at lunch counters
across south to oppose segregation in public cafes?
Sit-Ins
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Modern feminist organization created to promote equal
rights and opportunities for Women?
NOW
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Book written that stated that it was a myth that women
wanted to be a domesticated house wife and not enter
professional careers?
Feminine Mystique
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Author of Feminine Mystique and a leader of the National
Organization for Women (NOW)?
Betty Friedan
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Main goal of the National Organization for Women
(NOW)?
Equal pay; Equal opportunity in the
Workforce
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Mexican American civil rights leader for Hispanic immigrant
farm laborers?
Cesar Chavez
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Chavez founded this movement to used nonviolent protest to
promote the rights of Hispanic workers?
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Cesar Chavez used this non-violent strategy to get grape
growers to negotiate a contract with the UFW?
Boycott
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This is the product that Cesar Chavez and UFW boycotted?
California Table Grapes
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This individual became the leader of the Modern
Environmental Movement?
Rachel Carson
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Rachel Carson was the author of this book?
Silent Spring
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Silent Spring led the environment movement by
opposing use of this in farming?
Chemicals/Pesticides
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Silent Spring led the environment movement by
opposing use of this particular insecticide?
DDT
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
April 22 intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for
the earth’s environment?
Earth Day
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
Federal Agency with the purpose of enforcing laws
aimed at maintaining a safe and clean environment?
Environmental Protection Agency
Post World War II: Domestic ChangesMovement to turn back
(Backlash) liberal agendas by cutting social welfare, taxes,
decrease the size of government?
Conservative Movement
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This candidate won the Republican nomination for
President in 1964 signaling the rise of the Conservative
Movement?
Barry Goldwater
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This conservative won the President Election of 1968?
Richard Nixon
SSCG 25
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
1973 Supreme Court case that said women had a 4th
Amendment Privacy right to Abortion within the first trimester of Pregnancy?
Roe v. Wade
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
1978 Supreme Court case that said race could be used when
considering applications to college?
Bakke v. University of California
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
The Supreme Court, in the Bakke case, said that this was unconstitutional and could not be used in considering college
applications?
Quota System
Post World War II: Domestic Changes
This concept refers to preferential hiring practices of African Americans and other
Minorities?
Affirmative Action