US History Final Review

1. Stanley Cup
Ch. 18 Review
US History
Mr. Hawkins

2. Rules
• Class will be split up into four teams.
• Each team will be given a question to respond to
from Ch. 18.
• If team responds correctly one player will be
allowed to shoot in order to score points for their
team.
• Players will be given three attempts from the
“shooting line” to score a goal for their team.
• Puck must stay in contact with floor entire flight
of shot.

3. • attempted to determine the causes of the
1967 riots
• Kerner Commission

4. • term first used by SNCC leader Stokley
Carmichael
• black power

5. • radical African American activist killed in 1965
• Malcolm X

6. • racial separation imposed by law
• de jure segregation

7. • a massive 1964 effort to register African
American voters in Mississippi
• Freedom Summer

8. • bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist
codes
• freedom ride

9. • banned literacy tests for voter registration
• Voting Rights Act

10. • African American who enrolled at “Ole Miss”
• James Meredith

11. • case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education

12. • NAACP attorney who led a legal challenge
against segregation
• Thurgood Marshall

13. • What African American is famous for breaking
into major league baseball?
• Jackie Robinson

14. • What was the significance of Hernandez v.
Texas?
• It extended Fourteenth Amendment
protections to Mexican Americans.

15. • The Marshall Plan generated economic growth
by
• stimulating foreign demand for American
products.

16. • How long did the Montgomery bus boycott
last?
• more than a year

17. • The National Defense Education Act allocated
federal funds to train
• scientists.

18. • In return for the desegregation of interstate
transportation,
• the Kennedy administration agreed not to
stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.

19. • Why did Martin Luther King target
Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights
campaign?
• because it was considered the most
segregated city in the South

20. • Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
• President Johnson

21. • When three civil rights workers disappeared
during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed
that they had been
• murdered.

22. • While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert
to
• the Nation of Islam.

23. • What civil rights measure was passed by
Congress shortly after King’s assassination?
• the Fair Housing Act