F&C: Civil Rights 1

Segregation most closely means . . .

• Enslavement of people by race

• The separation of people by race in public

• All forms of racial discrimination

• Denying citizens the right to vote due to race

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites; named after a black character in minstrel shows, passed to discriminate against African Americans by forcing them into separate public accommodations. Replaced Black Codes.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• civil rights

Supreme Court case in 1896 that upheld Jim Crow segregation by approving "separate but equal" public facilities for African Americans. Made segregation legal in the United States.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Miranda v. Arizona

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty

What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?

• Sit-in

• Boycotts

• Freedom Rides

• March on Washington

Match the following key figures and groups with their correct description.

• Feminist group who fought for gender equality

• Black Panther Party

• 1st African American woman to serve in Congress

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Important leader of the Civil Rights movement, believed in civil disobedience instead of violence

• National Organization for Women

• Civil Rights group that used armed resistance to protest and defend themselves.

• Shirley Chisholm

• Led by Cesar Chavez/ Dolores Huerta, worked to improve working conditions for migrant workers

• United Farm Workers

Match the following events with their correct description.

• Governor Orval Faubus challenged the power of the federal government to desegregate schools

• March on Washington

• African American citizens protested segregation in public transportation

• Grape Boycott

• The UFW protested dangerous farm worker conditions.

• Little Rock Crisis

• Nonviolent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities of minorities

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

Which law helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Title IX

• Twenty-sixth Amendment

• Affirmative action

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

• Racism

• Discrimination

• Prejudice 

• segregation

fundamental rights and freedoms protected from infringement by the government.

• Civil Liberties

• Civil Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Due Process Clause