Unit 6 Social Change Review

Which of the following was NOT a result of whites moving to suburbs outside the city?

• increased traffic

• transit systems (public transportation) lost money in the city

• minorities and the poor were able to get better jobs

• expressways were built and apartment homes were knocked down

What is an ideal?

• a principle or standard to aim for

• a new law

• a good idea

• something illegal

Which of the following is NOT one of America's ideals?

• Promote democracy

• separate all races

• Promote equality among racial minorities

• Provide individual freedom of rights

A group of African-American pilots who were segregated and faced discrimination during WWII were

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Tuskegee AirmenJim Crows

• Freedom Riders

• Little Rock Nine

What was the Chicano Rights Movement?

• sought to end discrimination against Mexican Americans and to give equal rights (workplace, school, voting, and land)

• the movement of Mexican Americans across the United States

• a Supreme Court case

• a fight against Jim Crow Laws

What is a contradiction?

• a combination of statements or ideas that are in opposition of each other

• an agreement

• a type of law

• the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education

The migration or movement of white, middle class people from cities to suburbs was known as

• Chicano Rights Movement

• White Flight

• Civil Rights Movement

• Freedom Rides

What event was organized by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in which black riders traveled to the South and entered “white only” areas?

• Freedom Rides

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Sit ins

• Civil Rights Movement

What contradictions to America's ideals about democracy and equality occur before, during and after WWII?

• America treated all people equally.

• America was putting African Americans in concentration camps.

• America was discriminating against a number of groups including African Americans, Native Americans, and women.

• America was only discriminating against African Americans.

Laws in the South that enforced segregation in public places were known as

• Freedom Rides

• White Flight

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Movement