VUS 13 Essential Vocabulary Quiz

____________________ -  A federal program to provide hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 and over.

• Massive Resistance

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• Reunification

An unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession,

especially affecting women and members of minority groups.

• Medicare

• NAACP

• G.I. Bill

• Glass ceiling

A network of controlled-access highways in the U.S. 

• Interstate Highway System

• NAFTA

• NCLB

• Reunification

Was one of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education.  The case was based on the idea that segregation of pupils in the public schools in the county by race constituted discrimination in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Massive Resistance

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward

A program to provide health insurance for people on welfare.

• NCLB

• Medicare

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Medicaid

 Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr promoted a group of laws intended

to prevent the integration of public schools in Virginia.

• Reunification

• Massive Resistance

• Glass ceiling

• NAACP

Law that provided financial and educational benefits

to World War II veterans.

• Middle Class

• Educational

  Opportunity Act

• G.I. Bill

• Great Society

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-an organization  founded to promote full racial equality.

(a)  

President Johnson’s program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the U.S.

(a)  

 North American Free Trade Agreement-treaty that lowered tariffs and brought Mexico into the free trade zone established by the U.S. and Canada.

(a)