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The Civil Rights Movement: Key Concepts and Events

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This resource explores the critical vocabulary and concepts related to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, detailing its impact on government and society. Key topics include boycotts, affirmative action, judicial activism, and significant court cases such as Miranda v. Arizona and Brown v. Board of Education. The document also highlights influential figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, and discusses essential legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act. Ideal for students and educators seeking to understand the evolution of civil rights.

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The Civil Rights Movement: Key Concepts and Events

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  1. Vocabulary An expanding Role in Government The Civil Rights Movement cont Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement Other Americans Seeking Rights 100 pts 100 pts 100 pts 100 pts 100 pts 200 pts 200 pts 200 pts 200 pts 200 pts 300 pts 300 pts 300 pts 300 pts 300 pts 400 pts 400 pts 400 pts 400 pts 400 pts 500 pts 500 pts 500 pts 500 pts 500 pts

  2. What is an Boycott?

  3. Organized campaign to refuse to use or buy different goods or services

  4. What does ghetto mean?

  5. Poor run-down neighborhood where one group of people live due to poverty or prejudice

  6. What is mandatory retirement?

  7. Policy that requires people to stop working at a certain age

  8. What is a sit in?

  9. A form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave

  10. What is affirmative action?

  11. Program to provide more job and education opportunity for people who faced discrimination in the past

  12. What was the outcome of Miranda v. Arizona?

  13. Miranda Rights, an arrested person needs to be informed of their legal rights

  14. What was judicial activism?

  15. Laws were overturned if they were unfair, past decisions did not matter

  16. Who killed Kennedy?

  17. Lee Harvey Oswald

  18. What was Lyndon Johnson’s political slogan?

  19. “War on Poverty”

  20. What is Medicare?

  21. Helps people over 65 pay their medical bills

  22. Who did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr model himself after?

  23. Mohandas Ghandi

  24. What did Freedom Rides try to do?

  25. Set out to the South to integrate bus stations before being attacked in Alabama

  26. What did the Civil Rights act of 1964 do?

  27. Outlawed discrimination

  28. What did Stokely Carmichael preach?

  29. “Black Power”

  30. What did Malcolm X originally want?

  31. Separate black and white communities

  32. What did Plessy V. Ferguson say?

  33. Separate but equal

  34. What did the NAACP do?

  35. Challenged laws that prevented equality

  36. Who was the first baseball player to cross the Color barrier?

  37. Jackie Robinson

  38. What did Brown v. Board of Education say?

  39. Separate but equal is not legal and schools were being forced to integrate

  40. Who had to intervene in Little Rock when the governor would not let students into the school?

  41. Federal Troops

  42. What does NOW stand for?

  43. National Organization for Women

  44. What did Hernandez v. Texas say?

  45. Excluding Mexican Americans from a Jury is illegal

  46. What did the Equal Pay Act do?

  47. Women were supposed to be paid the same amount as men

  48. What are examples of Disabilities rights Accommodations?

  49. Reserved Parking, ramps, wheelchair lifts and braille

  50. What does AARP do?

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