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As president, he wanted to be known for his economic and civil rights programs but became preoccupied with foreign affairs.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This means to refuse to buy or use particular goods or services as a form of protest.
What is boycott?
This was the name of Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan of social and economic reforms.
What is the Great Society?
What gains did African Americans in Texas experience in their struggle for equal rights between 1945 and 1980?
Between 1945 and 1980, African Americans campaigned to end unfair treatment and gain equal rights. Due to multiple Supreme Court decisions: the number of African Americans registered to vote rose dramatically; colleges and grade schools began to integrate; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned discrimination and made it illegal to try to prevent African Americans from voting, and by the 1980s, more than 260 African Americans held elected offices in Texas.
His invention of the integrated silicon circuit led to the creation of personal computers, digital watches, and other devices.
Who is Jack Kilby?
This is a form of protest in which activists occupy a segregated business, interfering with the business's normal work.
What is a sit-in?
This was the first artificial satellite launched in 1957 that spurred the space race.
What was Sputnik?
What were positive and negative impacts of the interstate highway system?
Positive impacts of the interstate highway system included safe and continuous driving at high speeds and the fast transportation of military equipment and troops during a crisis. The highways boosted the economy as truckers and tourists crisscrossed the state, visiting businesses such as service stations, restaurants, and motels. Negative impacts included railroad companies losing business, traffic jams, air pollution, and accidents.
She was the first African American elected to represent Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
These were integrated buses that toured segregated areas of the South.
What are freedom rides?
The growth of these meant that cities saw decreased tax revenues and struggled to pay for public services.
What are suburbs?
He was the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction.
Who is William Clements?
This Supreme Court decision required schools across the country to begin to integrate racially.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the name given to the period of fear and pursuit of suspected Communists.
What is the Red Scare?
He was the first Republican U.S. Senator from Texas since Reconstruction.
Who is John Tower?
This Supreme Court decision resulted in the racial integration of Texas’s colleges.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
Beginning in the 1970s, thousands of refugees from this country moved to Texas, where they found the climate and geography along the Gulf of Mexico similar to that of their homeland.
What is South Vietnam?