Unit 11: Paper 3 — History of the Americas (HL)
Topic 11.11: Social movements in the Americas (1945–2020) Questions
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Which piece of legislation banned discrimination in employment and public places, and was pushed through Congress by President Johnson in 1964?
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Stokely Carmichael popularized which slogan after 1966, marking a shift toward pride in Black identity and community control?
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The 1965 Delano Grape Strike, a defining early action of the Chicano Movement, was primarily a protest by which group?
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Which organization, founded in 1969, spread Chicano identity and activism onto college campuses across the Southwest?
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To what extent do you agree that the Chicano Movement's economic gains for farmworkers proved lasting?
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In 1957, which US president sent federal troops to enforce the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School?
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In March 1968, over 15,000 students walked out of East Los Angeles high schools. What were they primarily demanding?
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What was the main significance of the 1970 Delano contracts?
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The 1954 Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 'separate but equal' principle from Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is known as:
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Which event launched the non-violent phase of the Chicano Movement's farmworker campaign in 1965?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that women such as Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer were as important to the civil rights movement's success as its most famous male leaders?
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Discuss the view that women were sidelined within the Chicano Movement despite their central role in its organizing.
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Evaluate the claim that grassroots organizations such as SNCC and CORE were more important than national leaders in driving the civil rights movement's methods after 1960.
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Evaluate the claim that Cesar Chavez was the single most important leader of the Chicano Movement.
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Evaluate the claim that political success, rather than social and cultural change, was the Chicano Movement's most significant achievement.
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Who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers) alongside Cesar Chavez?
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Rosa Parks's arrest in 1955 directly triggered which protest campaign?
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Which Supreme Court case established the 'separate but equal' doctrine that Brown v. Board of Education (1954) later overturned?
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Which Chicano leader co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and negotiated the first contracts with grape growers?
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that Cold War pressure was the most important political factor pushing the US federal government to act on civil rights before 1955?
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