Most Asked STAAR US History Questions - Cold War Civil Right

This Civil Rights leader who planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was assassinated in 1968.

• Jackie Robinson

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• WEB Du Bois

Governor Orville Faubus and angry crowds of white people tried to stop them from integrating Central High School

• Little Rock Nine

• Black Panthers

• United Farm Workers

• Freedom Riders

It ended segregation in schools.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

These young people rode on interstate buses to make sure they were really desegregated.

• Black Panthers

• Freedom Riders

• Sit-Ins

• Boycotters

This ended discrimination in workplaces and segregation in public spaces.

• Brown v. Board of Ed

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act

• Title IX

Voter discrimination like poll taxes and literacy tests was made against the law by

• Brown v. Board of Ed

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act

• Miranda v. Arizona

Congress passed this to make sure no president could start another war like Vietnam without its permission.

• War Powers Act

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• SALT

• Affordable Care Act

Nixon tried to stop the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, but he couldn't because

• First Amendment gives freedom of religion

• First Amendment gives freedom of speech

• First Amendment gives freedom of the press

• First Amendment gives freedom of assembly

The New York Times published these documents that showed that the government was lying about the war in Vietnam. Nixon tried to stop them.

• Pentagon Papers

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Kent State

• Domino Theory

This gave President Johnson permission to send soldiers to Vietnam

• War Powers Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• HUAC