POT: Chapter 6 Test Review

Match each legislation to its description.

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Declared that racial segregation of schools violated the Constitution because segregated schools were, by nature, unequal

• Title IX

• Expanded funding and support for career and technical education programs in middle school and high school

• Civil Rights Act

• Formally outlawed segregation in all public schools and public places in the United States

• Perkins V

• Required schools to provide equal opportunities to both male and female students, especially in athletics

Match each legislation to its description.

• G.I. Bill

• gave veterans money to attend college

• No Child Left Behind Act

• guaranteed a free public education to children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment

• Education for All Handicapped Children

• gave federal money to school districts based on the number of poor children enrolled

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act

• increased accountability through the use of standardized tests and tied federal money to test scores

Match each legislation to its description.

• National Defense Education Act

• emphasized math, science, and foreign language instruction so that the U.S. could compete against Russia in the space race

• Project Head Start

• provided free preschool to children from low-income families

• Goals 2000 Act

• 6 targets that the federal government wanted schools to achieve by the end of the decade

• Every Student Succeeds Act

• improved NCLB by giving states more flexibility and offering grants to underperforming schools

Match each legislation to the president or group responsible for passing it.

• Civil Rights Act

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Title IX

• Donald Trump

• Perkins V

• Richard Nixon

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Supreme Court

Match each legislation to the person or group responsible for passing it.

• Goals 2000 Act

• George H.W. Bush

• No Child Left Behind

• Barack Obama

• Every Student Succeeds Act

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Project Head Start

• George W. Bush

Match each event to the correct time period.

• Cold War

• 1960s

• Gulf War

• 1950s

• Vietnam War

• 2000s

• War in Afghanistan

• 1990s

• World War II

• 1940s

Match each situation to the correct time period.

• 1970s

• global Covid19 pandemic

• 1950s

• oil crisis in the middle east; high inflation and high unemployment

• 2020s

• fear of Communism and the military strength of Russia

• 2000s

• collapse of the housing market and large banks; global financial crisis

• 1980s

• widening gap between rich and poor; A Nation at Risk report