Worksheets1950s/ 1960s
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Dramatic increase in birth rate, especially in the years following WWII. This was due to so many people working and making a better living.
Baby Boom
Baby Gap
GI Bill
Transistor
Beatnik
an elderly person in the 1920s who suffered financial loss.
the fact or process of converting someone or something back to a former state.
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
This was a type of music which challenged earlier music and was popular to teenagers.
Commission made by LBJ after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.The point was to investigate if someone paid for the assassination of Kennedy. This concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy on his own.
Black Commission
Warren Commission
Justice Commission
Johnson Commission
The Supreme Court recognized as a Constitutional
right in its 1966 decision that requires suspects be informed of their Fifth & Sixth Amendment rights "prior to interrogation" if their statements are to be used against
them in court.
Roe Decision
Wade's Rule
Miranda Rule
Equal Rights
Brown V. Board of Education
Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional
Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
All state laws prohibiting abortions were made unconstitutional based on a woman's right to privacy
Ruled that a defendant in a felony trial must be provided a lawyer free of charge if the defendant cannot afford one.
_____________ rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places.
Freedom Rides
National Organization for Women
United Farm Workers
Counterculture
What president assured the nation that "we shall overcome" when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He also took steps to end discrimination earlier when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Abraham Lincoln
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Law 1975
Civil Rights Law of 1988
Civil Service Act of 1960
The 24th Amendment prohibits Congress and States from...?
Allowing citizens to license, produce, supply, or possess substances which are recognized as mind altering.
Verifying the owner's right to their own creative work.
Using any method to keep someone from voting based on ethnicity.
Abolishing an earlier quota system based on national origin and
established a new immigration policy.
American civil rights lawyer, who became the first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thurgood Marshall
Malcom X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Earl Warren
