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Integration
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An end to racial segregation
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Boycott
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Refuse to use
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Welfare
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A system in which government agencies make cash payments to the poor.
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Civil Disobediance
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The peaceful refusal to obey unjust laws.
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Sit-in
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A form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave.
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Affirmative Action
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Businesses and schools were encouraged to give preference to members of groups that had been discriminated in the past
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Ghettos
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Poor run-down neighborhoods
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Bilingual
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Means "in two languages."
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Mandatory Retirement
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A policy that requires people to stop working at a certain age.
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What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. How did it begin? Why was it an effective tool of protest in Montgomery. What was the outcome?
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The Mongtomgery Bus Boycott was a coordinate boycott of the Montgomery Alabama bus system to protest segregation laws. It began on December 1, 1955, when Roas Parks was told to give up her seat to a white rider. She refused and was arrested. On the day of her trial, African Americans in Montgomery boycotted the city busses. It was an effective tool of protest because after 381 days the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
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What were the domestic goals of President Kennedy? Was Kennedy's program successful or unsuccessful in the long run. Explain.
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President Kenndy's domestic goals were to end poverty, fight disease, ensure justice for all Americans and to put a man on the moon. Kennedy was assasinated in 1963 and did not live to see the achievement of his goals. Much of the Civil Rights legislation that later became law was part of Kennedy's goals.
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Describe the Great Society. Choose two programs of the Great Society and describe them in detail.
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The Great Society was an ambitious program of social and economic reforms It's goal was to expand opportunity and provide a decent standar of living for all Americans. The Head Start program provided preschool education for needy children. Medicare helped citizens 65 years and older to pay their medical bills.
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What tactics did Martin Luther King, Jr. favor in the fight for civil rights? How did the views of Malcolm X differ from hose of King.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most effective and famous leaders of the civil rights movement. He led protest actions based on a firm belief in civil disobedience and nonviolence. Other civil rights activists believed that stronger methods were needed. Malcolm X at first rejected King's beliefs and wanted a separate society for African Americans. Many protests turned violent. He later changed his mind and wanted a "black-white brotherhood. Both men were shot to death.
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What were the terms of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Why did supporters fo the Voting Rights Act favor federal action rather an action on the state level?
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests and other barriers to African American Voting. Supporters favored federal action because many of the states, mostly in the south, actively opposed equal voting rights. For example, State Troopers in Alabama set upon protesters with tear gas, clubs and whips in order to stop the protests.
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How did each of the following groups seek better treatment in the 1960s and 1970s:
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Mexican Americans: obtained higher wages through nonviolent protests boycotting grapes. They also caused the Voting Rights Act to be amended to require bilingual elections.
Native Americans: were very poor. They obtained land, mineral rights and water rights. Older Americans: lobbied to end mandatory retirement and for passage of social programs like Medicare. People with Disabilities campaigned for equal rights. They sought laws requiring public buildings to provide access for people with disabilities. They succeeded in getting the American with Disabilities Act which outlawed discrimination in hiring people with physical or mental disabilities. |
