Chapter 12
What was the main reason Mexicans migrated to the United States?
For economic opportunity
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
The NAACP (N double A C P)
An attack of a US Naval Military base that caused the United States to join WWII
Perl Harbor
This person's iconic speech, was the turning point in the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the name of spongebob's pet snail
Gary
This is a term when a person is removed from a country they are not a citizen in
Deportation
In what ways was the life of a sharecropper different
from or like the life of a slave?
Sharecroppers managed farm land and had freedom, Slaves did not.
The genocide of European Jews during World War II.
The Holocaust
This person was pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement that caused the Montgomery Bus line Boycott
Rosa Parks
M&M’S Fruit Chews would eventually become what popular candy?
Starburst
What is a Mexican Barrio?
A "slum" that Mexicans lived in that they could keep their families together
What were the one of the TWO major cities that African Americans migrated to from the south?
Chicago and New York City
The first group of African American fighter pilots
Tuskegee Airmen
An act of nonviolent, from a product, person, organisation, or country as an expression of protest.
A Boycott
The player with the most career rushing yards in NFL history is ______ with 18,355 yards.
Emmitt Smith
a severe global economic downturn that occurred from 1929 to 1939
Great Depression
Why did so many African Americans switch to the Democrat party?
The began to address the needs of the African American community
What did the military do when they realized the black pilots were passing at a higher rate than the white pilots?
They made it more difficult to balance out the drop out numbers.
This was the case that desegregated US Schools
Brown vs Board of Education
Which NBA star took a break from his career in the mid-1990s to pursue a career in professional baseball?
Michael Jordan
What was the transportation that Mexicans mostly used to cross over into the United States?
By Train
What was “the Negro Capital of the World”
Harlem New York
What contributions did Japanese Americans make to
the war effort?
The contributed Intel and helped infiltrate the Japanese
What was Caesar Chavez most known for?
Leadership in the United Farm Workers (UFW), a labor union that fought for the rights of farm workers in the United States.
it was initially called "mintonette" and quickly gained popularity, becoming an Olympic sport in 1964
Volleyball