Vocab 2
Promoted
Helped to flourish
Mary Jackson
Hampton University and University of Virginia she was married to Levi Jackson Sr. Her kids are Carolyn Marie Lewis, and Levi Jackson Jr.
Major plot points of story?
Dorthy moves to Hampton, they deal with segregation, NACA changes to NASA, they launch a rocket ship to the moon.
What is the the Soapbox Derby
The Soapbox derby is a race that young boys enter and built a car from stuff they have laying around at home.
Exhilarating
Making one feel very happy; thrilling
Phenomena
Circumstances observed
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan
Wilberforce University, she was married to Howard Vaughan, her kids are Ann, Maida, Leonard, Kenneth, Michael and Donald.
The names of the different missions/rockets?
The Eagle, went on Apollo 11 landed humans on the moon. The Mercury Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury in 1973. Apollo 1, was the first crewed mission of the United States
Which of the women went to the sit-ins?
Christan Mann went to the sit-in.
Confronted
Faced in hostility
Abolish
Put an end to
Katherine Goble Johnson
West Virginia State Collage, she was married to James Globe and Jim Johnson, her kids are Joylette Globe, Constance Globe and Katherine Globe.
Trajectories
Curves described by a rocket in flight
What kinds of jobs were available to women and people of color?
Sort landry, make beds in white peoples homes, working tobacco plants were black jobs. Owning barbershop or small business, working in a post office or railroad were good black jobs. And a teacher,preacher,doctor or lawyer were very good jobs. Being a sort landry, make beds in white peoples homes, working tobacco plants were typical jobs
Cultivated
Promoted the growth of
Essential
Absolutely necessary
Christine Mann Darden
The George Washington University, Virginia State University, and Hampton University. Her husband is Walter L. Darden Jr. she didn’t have children.
Obsolete
Fallen into disuse
Who were the members of the Mercury 7?
Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Gleen, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.
Intended
Planned
Dissolved
Broken up
Limbo
A transitional place
What did the Russians do that led them to being in the lead in the Space Race?
They launched Sputnik 1
Catastrophic
Disastrous