Age of Consensus
This word means agreement or doing the same thing.
What is "consensus?"
The Cold War was a conflict between these two countries, which had been allies during World War 2.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
These laws, common throughout the US South in the early and mid 20th Century, enforced separation between white and Black people.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This tactic involves getting people to refuse to buy goods or services from a private company.
What is a boycott?
This program provides health care to anyone over sixty-five years old.
What is Medicare?
The United States emerged from this major world event as the strongest economy in the world, setting up the prosperity of the 1950s.
What is World War 2?
This economic system, favored by the US and its allies, involves private ownership of things like land and factories.
What is capitalism?
Many Black Americans, having experienced life outside the segregated South and feeling entitled to better treatment after their service in this event, came back motivated to fight for civil rights.
What is World War 2?
When using this tactic, activists will enter a place they are not supposed to be (e.g., a segregated restaurant) and peacefully insist on remaining there.
What is a sit-in?
This law, later updated to SNAP, provided food support for people living in poverty.
What was the Food Stamp Act of 1964?
The spread of car ownership, increasing number of highways, focus on single-family living, and the association of cities with poverty and non-white people caused many white people to move to this kind of area in the 1950s.
What are suburbs?
This economic system, favored by the Soviet Union and its allies, involves public (often government) ownership of things like land and factories, and major public involvement in economic decisions.
What is communism?
In a 1946 radio show, Superman fought this group, known for its distinctive costumes and use of violence against Black people and civil rights campaigners.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This approach, favored by Martin Luther King, Jr., refuses to harm or endanger people, even in self-defense, as a protest tactic.
What is non-violent resistance?
While the 1964 Civil Rights Act had ended legal segregation in most public places, this 1965 law protected the rights of Black people to vote.
What was the Voting Rights Act?
The 1950s were sometimes called the age of this, instead of consensus, because of the pressure for people to fit into a single lifestyle.
What is conformity?
The Soviet Union often attacked the US for these laws in its propaganda, instead promoting the idea that it and its allies embraced racial diversity.
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
What is racial segregation?
What is civil disobedience?
According to a 1964 speech by President Johnson, these were the three places where the Great Society would be built.
What were in the cities, in the countryside, and in the classroom?
The spread of this technology helped form a common culture where many people in the US thought and believed the same way.
What is television?
What is decolonization?
These fees, which were designed to discourage non-white people from voting, were abolished by the 24th amendment to the US constitution.
What are poll taxes?
The NAACP primarily focused on winning these as a way to change racist laws in the US.
What are court cases?
According to Black economist Thomas Sowell, Great Society programs destroyed Black families by making welfare this.
What is a way of life?