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Pages 606-657, 662-666 and 671-676 in Chapter 12 of Who Built America.

On Monday, May 9th, there will be a timed quiz on ten to twenty of the following.  Match the numbered items in column one with the lettered items in column two.

COLUMN ONE

1.  Brown v. Board of Education 

2.  Montgomery Bus Boycott 

3.  Dwight David Eisenhower 

4.  Lee Harvey Oswald 

5.  March on Washington 

6.  Bull Connor 

7.  CORE 

8.  Schwerner, Goodman, Cheney 

9.  Fannie Lou Hamer 

10. 1965 Immigration Act 

11. Watts, Newark, Detroit 

12. Stokely Carmichael 

13. Malcolm X 

14. Tommie Smith, Juan Carlos 

15. Title VII of ‘64 Civil Rights Act 

16. Cesar Chavez 

17. Ho Chi Minh 

18. Ngo Diem 

19. Bay of Pigs 

20. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 

21. My Lai 

22. SDS 

23. Tet Offensive 

24. Roe v. Wade 

25. Betty Friedan 

26. Watergate

 

COLUMN TWO

A.  Reluctantly Deployed troops in little Rock in 1956. 

B.  Black Power salutes at 1968 Olympics. 

C.  Murdered by Mississippi police and Klansmen. 

D.  Site of massacre by U.S. troops. 

E.  “The worst crime of the white man has been to teach us to hate ourselves.”

F.  Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.

G.  Port Huron Statement. 

H.  SNCC leader who Popularized Black Power. 

I.  Gave President power to use military in Vietnam. 

J.  Dictator of South Vietnam backed by U.S. government 

K.  Mississippi Freedom Party leader. 

L.  Led Vietnamese anti-colonial & nationalist movements. 

M.  Assassinated John F. Kennedy. 

N.  CIA organized invasion of Cuba. 

O.  Invalidated most state laws forbidding abortion. 

P.  Opened U.S. door to Latin Americans, Africans & Asians. 

Q.  Desegregated schools. 

R.  The Feminine Mystique. 

S.  Organized 1961 Freedom Rides. 

T.  Committee to Re-elect the President. 

U.  Forbade job discrimination by race, sex & national origin. 

V.  Dealt LBJ’s Vietnam policy a death blow. 

W. Birmingham police chief used dogs & hoses on protests. 

X.  United Farm Workers. 

Y.  Scene of race riots. 

Z.  Led by E.D. Nixon, M.L. King and Rosa Parks

 


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