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A synonym for a local or county law.
What is an ordinance?
The unfair laws, named after a founding KKK member, that made life harder for African Americans?
What are Jim Crow laws?
A traveling person, often a worker and their family who travel between different farms.
What is a migrant?
This act made literacy tests and poll taxes illegal, helping more people vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
The process of allowing people of all races to have equal access to all public services and facilities.
What is integration or desegregation?
The (now illegal) practice of separating people based on race called?
What is segregation?
An activist who worked for the rights and working conditions of migrant workers?
Who was Cesar Chavez?
Known as the mother of the Civil Rights Movement for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
When the US and USSR began competing to have a presence in space exploration, it was called this.
What is the Space Race?
JFK's brother and Attorney General, who was also assassinated while running for president.
Who was RFK (or Robert Kennedy)?
A machine that is sent into space to orbit the Earth and provide information and communication.
What is a satellite?
This term means to murder someone, like a leader, for political reasons.
What is assassinate?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
What is NASA?
Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
The time from the late 20th century to present day, in which new technologies have changed American life.
What is the Information Age?
A plot created by a group of people to do something that is usually illegal for political reasons.
What is a conspiracy?
Companies that use satellites and computers to allow people to communicate all over the world with cell phones, smart devices, and television.
What are telecommunications?
a prominent American civil rights leader who believed in nonviolent resistance to unjust laws and practices.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Companies that allow travel all over the world via the use of jet engines.
What are airlines?
The man convicted of murdering RFK.
Who was Sirhan Sirhan?
The phenomenon of people leaving Earth’s atmosphere and exploring outer space.
What is space exploration?
A year-long event in Alabama that led to a Supreme Court victory against Jim Crow laws.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
JFK's vice president.
Who was LBJ (of Lyndon Johnson)?
The man convicted of murdering MLK.
Who was James Earl Ray?
Roads that cross the nation; odd numbers run north and south, and even numbers run east and west.
What are interstates?
The man who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald.
Who was Jack Ruby?
The youngest president ever elected.
Who was JFK (or John F. Kennedy)?
The event that had 250,000 people stand up for civil rights and featured MLK's famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
What was the March on Washington DC?
The man arrested for murdering JFK.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
The lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case and America’s first Black Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
A worldwide web of computers and databases that are all connected and can communicate with one another.
What is the internet?
The 1964 law that made discrimination based on race or religion illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
Computers that are small yet useful enough to be purchased by consumers for their homes.
What are personal computers?
The period of American activism against unfair laws and practices based on race.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The celebrated civil rights leader known by the initials, MLK.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?