Growing and Changing as a Nation Chapter 15

Match the names to the correct descriptions.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Minister who worked to achieve civil rights

• Dr Martin Luther King

• Seamstress who was arrested for refusing to not give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama

• Rosa Parks

• First Black American Supreme Court justice

• Robert Weaver

• First Black American to be an advisor to the president

• Billy Graham

• American evangelist whose tent meetings where televised worldwide while he preached from the Bible; Made him one of the best-known and respected persons in America and around the world

Who developed a vaccine to prevent polio?

• Dr. Albert Einstein
• Dr. Martin Luther King

• Dr. Jonas Salk

What law made low-interest loans available to servicemen?

• GI Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights

• Indian Civil Rights Act

• Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Match the following terms to their definitions.

• Civil Rights

• Peaceful protests by college students who sat at lunch counters and other businesses to protest segregation

• Sit-ins

• Protests by college students who ride buses throughout the South to protect segregation

• Freedom Rides

• Equal protection for freedoms and privileges

• Desegregation

• Reversing the practice of separating people by skin color

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that ruled that public schools should no longer be segregated?

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• March on Washington

Dr. Martin Luther King helped form the (a)   whose desire was to peacefully ensure civil rights.

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• GI Bill of Rights

• Twenty-fourth Amendment

In 1963, over 200,000 people participated in the civil rights (a)   . From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King addressed the crowd while millions of others watched the speech on television.

• March on Washington, D.C.

• March on New York City

• Protest in Los Angeles

What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech?

"I have a (a)   ."

• Plan

• Dream

• Wish

Match the following terms to their definitions.

• Indian Civil Rights Act

• Act requiring federal employees to supervise local elections to ensure that no person was kept from legally casting a vote

• Fair Housing Act of 1968

• Constitutional amendment stating that no citizen would be charged a tax to cast a vote in an election

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Law that guaranteed that civil rights of Native Americans could not be taken away by tribal governments

• Twenty-fourth Amendment

• Law that outlawed discrimination in employment and in public places; Protected voting rights

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Law that ensured equal housing rights for all Americans

What virus affects the nerves in the body and can cause a person to lose their ability to walk?

• Polio

• Measles

• Mumps

• Rubella