Civil Rights Foundations
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13 amendment
Her refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
President who launched the Great Society programs.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This theory argued that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
Domino Theory
This movement rejected traditional values and promoted peace and social freedom.
Counterculture movement
This Supreme Court case established "Separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
This 1963 event helped build national support for civil rights legislation related to equal opportunities in employment.
March on Washington
This federal department focused making housing more affordable and developing urban areas.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
This resolution gave the president broad power to escalate the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This music festival symbolized youth protest and opposition to the Vietnam War.
Woodstock
This amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law and became the basis for later civil rights cases.
14th Amendment
This form of protest challenged segregation in interstate transportation.
Freedom Rides
This 1965 law provided health care for elderly Americans.
Medicare Act of 1965
This major 1968 attack weakened public support for the war.
Tet Offensive
These documents revealed government deception about the Vietnam War.
Pentagon Papers
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy and ruled segregated schools unconstitutional.
Brown v Board of Education
This organization promoted self-defense and community programs, contrasting MLK’s nonviolence.
Black Panther Party
This women’s organization fought for gender equality and helped push Title IX.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
This term describes the growing distrust Americans felt toward the government during the war.
Credibility Gap
This event in 1975 marked the official end of the Vietnam War.
Fall of Saigon
This case expanded 14th Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
Hernandez v. Texas
This state governor Orval Faubus refused 9 Black students from entering a school in what state?
Arkansas
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in response to young Americans being drafted.
26th Amendment
This policy reduced U.S. troop involvement by shifting responsibility to South Vietnam.
Vietnamization
This law limited the president’s ability to send troops without congressional approval.
War Powers Resolution