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Alabama History Chapter 9
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4th Grade
11/17/2011

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GI Bill
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After World War II, ______________provided veterans with money for an education and low cost home loans
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farm to market roads
Definition
Farmers were able to get their produce to people in the cities by
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farming
Definition
Mechanical cotton pickers and chemical poisons made ____________ more efficient after World War II
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economic boom
Definition
People had more money to spend and were able to buy consumer goods such as refrigerators and washing machines that had been considered luxuries, this was during the ________________of the 1950’s
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Definition
The Supreme Court ruled that separate schools were not equal in the
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Montgomery bus boycott

Definition
Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress whose actions started the
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Nobel Peace Prize

Definition
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the ____________________ for his leadership during the Civil rights Movement
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Civil Right Act of 1965

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This act made it illegal to deny people access to public facilities based on race
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vote

Definition
Protesters in Selma held demonstrations demanding the right to
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Civil Rights Act of 1965
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Many of the restrictions that had been place on black at the polls were erased when Congress passed the
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Supreme Court
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The boycott of buses in Montgomery ended when the ________________ ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional
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women

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During the 1960’s the new civil rights laws helped __________________ gain equal pay for equal work
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veteran
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Men and women who have served in the military
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boycott

Definition
To abstain from the use of a good or product
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civil rights
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Basic, nonpolitical rights and freedoms
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desegregation
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Elimination of special treatment or privilege based on race
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Birmingham
Definition
“most segregated city in America” before 1964
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Selma
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Site of voting rights demonstrations
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Jim Crow laws
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Laws and customs that separated the races in the south and kept blacks from having the same opportunities as whites
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