US History STAAR Important People

Who is this leader of the Chicano Movement, who fought for the rights of migrant farm workers and organized a national boycott of grapes and lettuce.

• Hector P. Garcia

• Cesar Chavez

• Dolores Huerta

• Roy Benavidez

Who is this civil rights leader of the Black Power Movement, who led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in a new direction focusing on self-sufficiency.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Stokely Carmichael

• Thurgood Marshall

Who is this leader of the Women's Liberation Movement, a cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and author of the Feminine Mystique?

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Sandra Day O'Connor

• Rosa Parks

• Betty Friedan

Who was this Progressive Era president who brought the U.S. into World War I with the promise that it would be a "war to end all wars," and hoped that his 14 Points peace plan might make that happen.

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Who was the president who promised a "return to normalcy" after the destruction of World War I, and whose administration was plagued by scandals like the Teapot Dome Scandal?

• William McKinley

• Woodrow Wilson

• Warren G. Harding

• Richard Nixon

Who was an imperialist president who used Big Stick Diplomacy to achieve foreign policy goals, and promised a Square Deal to Americans with the 3 Cs (conservation, corporation control, and consumer protection)?

• Woodrow Wilson

• John F. Kennedy

• Bill Clinton

• Theodore Roosevelt

Ida B. Wells was a Progressive Era reformer who wrote often and passionately against the horrors of...

• industrialization

• political machines

• lynching

• unsafe food

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, which was followed by the __________ to overcome segregation.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Sit-In Movement

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Summer

Shirley Chisolm was a trailblazer by cofounding the National Organization for Women (NOW) and then becoming the first female African American...

• Supreme Court Justice

• Vice President

• member of Congress

• governor

Which WWII and early Cold War president made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, desegregated the armed forces, and sent supplies into Berlin during the blockade?

• Harry Truman

• John F. Kennedy

• Ronald Reagan

• George H. W. Bush