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5th grade Social Studies GCRCT Review #12
Civil Rights Movement and Live in the 1960's
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Social Studies
5th Grade
04/14/2013

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Term
The ____________________ of the year ____________ helped the black people of the U.S. finally achieve equality.
Definition
Civil Rights Act
1964
Term
Equality for the black people means that people of color were finally given the same _____________ as white people.
Definition
rights
Term
Everyone regardless of their race, gender,or color has to be treated ______________.
Definition
equally
Term
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it against the law for ________ people to refuse to serve people of ____________.
Definition
white people
people of color
Term
Schools were no longer ________________ by race.
Definition
segregated
Term
Drinking fountains, buses, restaurants, hotels were no longer legally able to deny people service or designate a certain area for them to sit based on the person's ________.
Definition
color
Term
Who was the person who's actions started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Definition
Rosa Parks
Term
What did Rosa Parks do?
Definition
She refused to sit in the back of the bus.
Term
This court case made it illegal to segregate in public schools.
Definition
Brown VS. the Board of Education (Linda Brown)
Term
Who was the lawyer that won the Brown vs the Board of Education?
Definition
Thurgood Marshall
Term
Thurgood Marshall later became a __________________ Court Justice.
Definition
Supreme
Term
Who said "...ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."
Definition
President John F. Kennedy
Term
John F. Kennedy introduced programs to imporove life in the U.S. calling the programs the ____________________.
Definition
New Frontier
Term
In 1961 John F. Kennedy established the _____________________ to promote world peace and friendship. This group would go to other countries and worked to help train the men and women, helped them understand Americans, and help Americans understand the people of the different countries.
Definition
Peace Corps
Term
President Lynbdon B. Johnson called his social programs the __________________.
Definition
Great Society
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