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AP U.S. History
Unit 11
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History
11th Grade
12/06/2011

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Barry Goldwater
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Johnson's opponent, very conservative
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Betty Friedan
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Wrote "The Female Mystique"
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Black Power
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Black Nationalism and Black Panthers
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Desegregation of schools; repealed Plessy v. Ferguson
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Desegregates all public places
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Watergate
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Nixon's CREEP put wire taps in opponents building; was caught for it, committed treason and obstruction of justice and resigned the presidency
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March on D.C.
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Last message to Kennedy; where I Have a Dream speech was given
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Counter-culture
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"Hippies"; were non-conformists
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SDS
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Students for a Democratic Society; "Participatory democracy"
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ERA
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Equal Rights Amendment
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Freedom Riders
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Tested desegregation of transportation systems in the south; non-violence at peak
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Freedom Summer
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The summer when the freedom riders rode into the south and Mississippi
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George Wallace
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Supported racial segregation
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Gloria Steinem
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Champion of Women's rights
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Great Society
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Johnson's idea; Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and federal housing
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James Meredith
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First AA student at the University of Mississippi
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CORE
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Congress of Raccial Equality
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Little Rock crisis
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First test; enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education; students were attacked while walking into school
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Malcolm X
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Promoted black nationalism; called MLK a chunk
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Protected voting rights for all; no poll taxes or literacy tests
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Wrote I Have a Dream speech
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Montgomery Bus boycott
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"Started" with Rosa Parks; after one year of sitting desegregated, legislation made it legal to do so
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Neil Armstrong
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First man on the Moon; 1969
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Warren Commission
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Find out why, who, etc. possible connections between Cuba
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New Frontier
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Kennedy's plan; Space Race, Federal Funding, and Civil Rights
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NOW
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National Organization for Women
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Phyllis Schlafly
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Conservative; against women's rights and equal rights
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Rosa Parks
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Refused to give up her seat to a white man, started bus boycott
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Silent Majority
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Large group of people who do not express their opinion publicly
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Sit-ins
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AAs would sit at a bar and stay, similar to bus boycotts
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SNCC
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Student Non-violent coordinating committee
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SCLC
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Southern Christian Leadership Commission
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Title IX
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Gave women an opportunity in sports
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