Black Civil rights movement
What was the name of the 14 year old boy who was murdered in 1955 because he allegedly whistled at a white woman?
Emmet Till
What abandoned island prison did native activists occupy in 1969 until 1971?
Alcatraz
What was a "draft dodger"?
Someone who purposely avoided the draft because they did not want to go to Vietnam.
The Montgomery Bus Boycotts were sparked by this woman refusing to move to the back of the bus.
Rosa Parks
What type of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. believe was the only way the black Americans to gain equality?
Non violence protest
What chicano activist came up with the slogan "Sí, se puede"?
Dolores Huerta
What type of warfare did the Vietcong successfully use against the U.S.?
Guerilla warfare (Will also accept ambush tactics and booby Traps)
What leader of the Black Panthers believed in a "Rainbow Coaltion" and was murdered by the FBI at the age of 21?
Fred Hampton (Chairman Fred)
What did Malcolm X believe about non-violence? And what did he believe in instead?
(Must get both answers correct to get the points)
He thought non-violence was not going to work and that it was playing into the white man's hands.
He believed in self defense.
What union was created by Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez?
The UFW (United Farm Workers Union)
What is domino theory?
Official Definition: The belief that If one country becomes communist, all others around it will too.
(Talen is allowed to use his discretion on how correct an answer is)
What actions by Nixon and Kissinger led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge?
Their Secret Bombing campaign in Cambodia
What children's program are the Black Panthers most famous for creating?
The free breakfast program
The UFW organized an extremely successful boycott on ___________ grown by Schenley Industries because they wanted a pay raise for picking the snackable fruit.
Grapes
What tragic event changed the Democrats plan after Lyndon B. Johnson dropped out of the 1968 Presidential race?
The Assasination of Robert Kennedy (RFK sr.)
Most men drafted into the Vietnam war were from what background?
From poor and working class families
The event Bloody Sunday happened March 7th, 1965. It occurred when activists like MLK and John Lewis were leading a march from ________ to _________________.
(Where were they marching from and to)
Selma to Montgomery
Name one of the two leaders of the Red Power movement that helped occupy an abandoned prison?
Lanada Means (Lanada war Jack), Richard Oakes
Name two of the reasons the US lost the Vietnam war?
Guerilla war tactics, Vietcong all around them, the longer you stay the more Vietcong you make, difficult terrain, couldn't use typical machines and vehicles (tanks, trucks, etc.)
Talen can use his discretion
What was COINTELPRO?
An FBI operation to conduct covert surveillance on civil rights groups and Black leaders, including the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King Jr., Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and many others.
(Talen can use his discretion)