The federal government encouraged home ownership by

Who was accused by Whitaker Chambers of spying for the Soviet Union and was convicted of perjury?

Who was accused of being Communist and were blacklisted in the film industry?

Who was convicted and executed for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets?

Which agency sought out Communists by conducting investigations without necessarily regarding people's civil rights?

Who played on the public's fear of communism in the US by accusing people of being communist--even accusing the Army of having Communist connections?

What was the Red Scare Movement of the 1950’s about?

What does the term McCarthyism mean today?

Joseph McCarthy was reprimanded or ________ by the full U.S. Senate. This is the highest form of disapproval one can get from the U.S. Senate.

Americans were so shocked in 1953 when we found out the Soviets had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb that families began to build ___________ in their backyards.

Truman's description of the 80th Congress.

Balancing economic conservatism with some activism.

Who created the Polio vaccine?

What was the name of the Act that required many employers to pay men and women equal salaries for the same work?

What was established by the Supreme Court as a result of Miranda v. Arizona?

What caused the Baby Boom, Interstate Highways, the growth of the Middle Class, and the rise of Suburbs.

What was a negative consequence of the rise of Suburbs and the Interstate Highway Act?

What were Levitowns?

Stagflation consists of:

When did the United States experience stagflation?

This law created job training programs as well as starting the War on Poverty. It passed in 1964. It was called the

Medicare & Medicaid were created to provide health care to which groups of people?

This was the largest public works program in American history.

 A landmark 1954 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled “separate but equal” and race-based segregation of public school students to be unconstitutional.

A national movement undertaken by African Americans or Blacks and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to end segregation and ensure equal rights for minorities.

Black civil rights leader of the 1950s and 1960s, from Atlanta, who opposed segregation. He believed in nonviolence and organized the March on Washington. He received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

On August 28, 1963, approximately 250,000 people, mostly African American or Black, gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, to demand equal protection under the law for African Americans or Blacks. It was at this event that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

A partnership of civil rights organizations and churches that worked for desegregation and other civil rights. The SCLC, led by Martin Luther King Jr. promoted nonviolent direct action to meet its goals.

An organization formed in 1960 to further the cause of equal rights for minorities. It is most famous for organizing sit-ins at universities, and freedom rides into the South

Refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, or as a peaceful form of protest.

Separation of races

The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregation Black people, especially as practiced in the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century.

An organization that had begun in 1909 and was one of the main organizations in the 1940s working to overturn segregation laws; works through court to fight in equality

The act of bringing about equal membership in society

Integrated bus rides that went through segregated areas in order to draw attention to civil rights were known as

A form of protest in which activists sit down inside or in front of a business, thus interfering with the business’s normal work is known as a

During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?

The ruling of this court case ensured that people were informed of their due process rights when arrested-

Which of the following were examples of places that were segregated during the Civil Rights Movement?

Which important Civil Rights figure refused to give up his/her spot on the bus after a long day of work?

After Rosa Parks was arrested, who led the protest to boycott busses called the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Which law banned discrimination of any American because of their race, religion, or color?

Delaying action on a bill by making a long speech is known as a

This act ended voter suppression tactics like literacy tests and grandfather clauses

What Supreme Court decision said that segregation laws were constitutional?

What law banned discrimination in education, the workplace, public places, and voting?

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 end discrimination in voting by outlawing...

Why was employment an important issue in the Civil Rights Movement?

What was a common method used to prevent African Americans from voting before the Civil Rights Movement?

Why was the integration of schools important?