Topic 8.1 - 8.3 Key Terms
Refused to give up seat on Montgomery Bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Competition between Soviet Union and United States to be first to moon.
What is Space Race?
Group that knew federal government regulated interstate travel and would act to defend a recent Supreme Court decision.
What is Freedom Riders? (3)
Demonstrate American technological superiority in the space race.
What is U.S. landing on moon? (10)
Segregation based on laws.
What is De Jure Segregation?
Provides basic health insurance for Americans over 65.
What is Medicare?
Prevented states from collecting a poll tax that discouraged poor African Americans from voting.
What is Twenty-fourth Amendment? (4)
Domestic Proposals to inspire hope and optimism about the tasks that lay ahead.
What is Kennedy's New Frontier? (8)
Segregation based on traditional customs or practices.
What is De Facto Segregation?
Provides basic health services to Americans not on Social Security and under 65.
What is Medicaid?
Increased access to new technologies.
What is American Space Exploration? (5)
This program has become more expensive due to percent of retirees relative to workers has increased.
What is Medicare? (7)
Made literacy tests illegal as voting requirement.
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Act that created the Jobs Corp, VISTA, and Head start Program.
What is Economic Opportunity Act?
Letter that explained the necessity of civil rights reform and the tactic of nonviolence to obtain it.
What is MLK Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"? (2)
Kennedy's response to repeated outbreaks of racially motivated violence in early 1960s.
What is supported the use of the military in order to protect minority citizens’ civil rights. (9)
Speeches given in Congress to stall the vote on a bill.
What is filibuster?
Act that said Women must get equal pay in factories that produce goods for trade.
What is Equal Pay Act?
Inspired a mass movement of direct action to create political change.
What is Rosa Parks' actions? (1)
1964 Presidential Candidate that believed that social issues should not be addressed by the government and won support of so many southern states.
Who is Barry Goldwater? (6)