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31 Cards in this Set
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Elections 1964 - 2008 |
1964 - Lyndon Johnson 1968 - Richard Nixon 1972 - Richard Nixon 1876 - Jimmy Carter 1980 - Ronald Reagan 1984 - Ronald Reagan 1988 - George H. W. Bush 1992 - William Clinton 1996 - William Clinton 2000 - George W. Bush 2004 - George W. Bush 2008 - Barack Obama |
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Civil rights movement |
a struggle by African Americans in the mid-1950s to late 1960s to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity in employment, housing, and education, as well as the right to vote
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"I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King Jr. |
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
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Warren court reforms |
A series of reforms made in the supreme court during Earl Warren's time |
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Miranda v. Arizona |
Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police
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LULAC - Latino civil rights movement |
League of United Latin American Citizens; middle-class organization that campaigned to desegregate schools and public facilities
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Brown v. Topeka Board of Education |
Topeka board of education denied Linda Brown admittance to an all white school close to her house. Thurgood Marshall argued that a separate but equal violated equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Warren decided separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
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Civil rights act 1964 |
passed after the 1963 "March on Washinton." Banned Discrimination in any area open to the public. Empowered justice dept. to file suit against offenders.
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Voting act 1965 |
authorized federal gov. to oversee voting procedures if: less than 50% of pop. registered to vote, or literacy tests were used to discourage voting. Federal agents could register voters. This was a state function under the constitution.
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NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans, got Supreme Court to declare grandfather clause unconstitutional
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Little rock opposition |
1957 the school board in Little rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High a school. The governor (Orval Faubus) ordered troops from Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine from entering the school. Eisenhower than immediately ordered the US Army to send troops to Little Rock to protect and escort them for the full school year.
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Thurgood marshall |
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.
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Freedom writers |
promoted the integration of interstate bus system with rides through the south.
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Dueling Documents "Student Voices for a New America |
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Lyndon B Johnson |
signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to needy famillies. he also created a department of housing and urban development. his most important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid.
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"The Great society" |
President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
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Gulf of Tonkin Affair |
in August of 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson said that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Although there was a first attack, claims of a second attack were later said to be exaggerated or unfounded. Known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this led to the open involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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The counter culture |
a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture; "hippies" who accepted drugs and sexuality and lived unconnected to the past
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Black power |
emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests, advance black values, and secure black autonomy. a range of political goals, from defense against racial oppression, to the establishment of separate social institutions and a self-sufficient economy (separatism help usher in black radical thought, and action against white supremacy. Black Power adherents believe in Black autonomy, with a variety of tendencies such as black nationalism, and black separatism. Often Black Power advocates are open to use violence as a means of achieving their aims, but this openness to violence was nearly always coupled with community organizing work. Conflicted with civil rights.
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Ethnic Nationalism |
A form of nationalism where the nation is defined in terms of ethnicity or race. It includes ideas of culture that are shared between members of the group.
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Cesar Chavez |
Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers. He helped to improve conditions for migrant farm workers and unionize them
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Robert Kennedy |
younger brother of JFK who entered public life as U.S. Attorney General during the Kennedy Administration. Later elected senator from New York, he became an anti-war, pro-civil rights presidental canidate in 1968, launching a popular challange to incumbent President Johnson. Amid that campaign, he was assasinated in California on June 6, 1968
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Rock Revolution and Rebellion |
"crossover" musical style that rose to dominance in the 1950s, merging rhythm and blues with white bluegrass and coutry; featuring a heavy beat and driving rhythm, rock 'n' roll music became a defining feature of 1950s youth culture
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Johnson and the Vietnam war |
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The Tet offensive |
1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment
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Social consequences of the Vietnam war |
all of Vietnam falls to communism; US loses it's first war; general distrust of U.S. government by American people
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La Raza Unida Party |
political party started by Jose Angel Gutierrez, worked for better housing and jobs, and also backed latino political candidates
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The feminine mystique |
1963 - Betty Friedan depicted how difficult a woman's life is because she doesn't think about herself, only her family. It said that middle-class society stifled women and didn't let them use their talents. Attacked the "cult of domesticity."
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Roe v. Wade |
1973 All state laws prohibiting abortions were made unconstitutional based on a woman's right to privacy
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Ralph Nader |
A leftist American politician who promotes the environment, fair consumerism, and social welfare programs. His book Unsafe at Any Speed brought attention to the lack of safety in American automobiles.
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Neil Armstrong |
1st person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11; July, 1969; his famous words - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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