Amendments
guaranteed African-American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment
forever abolished slavery as as an institution in all U.S. states and territories.
What is The 13th Amendment
organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South
What is the Selma voting rights campaign
Thousands of volunteers, many from the North, travel to Mississippi to register blacks to vote
What is Freedom Summer
Soviets created a rivalry group. All communist states except one became a member.
What is the Warsaw Pact
outlawed the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th amendment
granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people
What is the 14th amendment
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War
Civil Rights act of 1865
works to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.
What is the NAACP
Korea had been divided into two independent countries by the United States and the Soviet Union by ?
What is the 38th parallel
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied
What is the 26th amendment
was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement.
What is the student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC)
This was the Supreme Court case that said segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v Ferguson
white supremacists bomb the 16th St. Baptist Church, one of Birmingham’s most prominent black churches; Four young girls getting ready for choir practice are killed
What is the 14th Street church bombing
changed the system to allow much more immigration
What is the immigration Act of 1965
granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment
is an African-American civil rights organization challenging public segregation and launching voter registration drives for African Americans.
What is The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Officially integrated the armed forces signed by President Truman in 1948
What is executive order 9981
Stopped all highways, railways, waterways to stop West Berlin from receiving aid from west Germany, hoping they would fall to communists.
What is the Berlin Airlift and blockade
to preserve international peace and security
what is the United Nations
outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections
What is the 24th amendment
established by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.; played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965.
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This Supreme Court case, started in 1950 and decided in 1954, found that segregation of schools is unconstitutional
What is Brown V BOE
U.S. and 11 other countries from Western European & North America joined to defend Western Europe.
What is NATO
Which president signed the immigration act of 1965:
What is Lyndon B. Johnson