Growing and Changing as a Nation Chapter 15

Match the names to the correct descriptions.

• Rosa Parks

• First Black American to be an advisor to the president

• Robert Weaver

• Minister who worked to achieve civil rights

• Billy Graham

• American evangelist whose tent meetings where televised worldwide while he preached from the Bible; Made him one of the best-known and respected persons in America and around the world

• Thurgood Marshall

• Seamstress who was arrested for refusing to not give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama

• Dr Martin Luther King

• First Black American Supreme Court justice

Who developed a vaccine to prevent polio?

• Dr. Albert Einstein
• Dr. Martin Luther King

• Dr. Jonas Salk

What law made low-interest loans available to servicemen?

• GI Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights

• Indian Civil Rights Act

• Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Match the following terms to their definitions.

• Desegregation

• Equal protection for freedoms and privileges

• Freedom Rides

• Protests by college students who ride buses throughout the South to protect segregation

• Civil Rights

• Reversing the practice of separating people by skin color

• Sit-ins

• Peaceful protests by college students who sat at lunch counters and other businesses to protest segregation

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that ruled that public schools should no longer be segregated?

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• March on Washington

Dr. Martin Luther King helped form the (a)   whose desire was to peacefully ensure civil rights.

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• GI Bill of Rights

• Twenty-fourth Amendment

In 1963, over 200,000 people participated in the civil rights (a)   . From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King addressed the crowd while millions of others watched the speech on television.

• March on Washington, D.C.

• March on New York City

• Protest in Los Angeles

What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech?

"I have a (a)   ."

• Plan

• Dream

• Wish

Match the following terms to their definitions.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Law that guaranteed that civil rights of Native Americans could not be taken away by tribal governments

• Indian Civil Rights Act

• Law that outlawed discrimination in employment and in public places; Protected voting rights

• Fair Housing Act of 1968

• Law that ensured equal housing rights for all Americans

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Act requiring federal employees to supervise local elections to ensure that no person was kept from legally casting a vote

• Twenty-fourth Amendment

• Constitutional amendment stating that no citizen would be charged a tax to cast a vote in an election

What virus affects the nerves in the body and can cause a person to lose their ability to walk?

• Polio

• Measles

• Mumps

• Rubella