Unit 6b Vocabulary Menu

Peace Corp

• This was an organization that fought for higher wages and better conditions for Hispanic migrant workers. This act was a huge success for JFK and his campaign.

Job Corp

• Job Corps is a program administered by the United States Department of Labor that offers free-of-charge education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24.

Cuban Missile Crisis

• This was the closest that the world has come to nuclear warfare. This crisis was due to the Soviets sending missiles to Cuba which were in firing range for the United States. This argument was settled with a negotiation later on.

Berlin Wall

• This is a physical barrier that divided East and West Berlin. This barrier separated many families and caused many children to be without parents. This wall was later torn down.

Great Society

• The name President Lyndon Johnson gave to his aims in domestic policy. The programs of the Great Society had several goals, including clean air and water, expanded educational opportunities, and the lessening of poverty and disease in the United States.

Medicare

• Medicare has made access to health care a universal right for Americans once they reach age 65. This has helped improve the health and longevity of older Americans.

NASA

• NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space. It is responsible for sending the first man to the moon.

Immigration Act 1965

• Abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

• The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement.

Brown v Board of Education

• This was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

24th Amendment

• The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

Civil Rights Act 1964

• This prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.

UC vs Bakke

• Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process, but held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances.

Feminine Mystique

• This was the book that sparked the Women's Liberation Movement. This book was written by Betty Friedan.

United Farm Workers

• The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers, is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. This movement of farm workers organizing for better pay and safer working conditions has continued to grow since 1962.

American Indian Movement

• This was a advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. Particularly in its early years, AIM also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans.

Warren Court

• Under Warren Court key issues were adderessed in the 60s such as civil rights; freedom of the press; separation of church and state; and the rights of the accused.

Plessy v Ferguson

• It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".

NAACP

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois.

Sit-ins

• The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement.

Churches

• These were where most of the Civil Rights movement was organized in the South.

Television

• Through this form of mass media all the people in the United States could witness the brutality inflicted upon the non-violent protestors.