Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945 Questions
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Which organization led the legal campaign that produced the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?
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Which 1973 US Supreme Court ruling legalised abortion nationwide, becoming a major legal victory for the feminist movement?
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Which US federal policy of 1953 ended government recognition of many Native American tribes and pushed assimilation?
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Who founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California in 1966?
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In which city did Dr Martin Luther King Jr lead the 1955-56 bus boycott that launched his national reputation?
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Which piece of legislation banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing in the United States?
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Which piece of US legislation banned literacy tests and sent federal officials to register Black voters in the South?
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Discuss the reasons why indigenous peoples in the Americas began organizing for civil rights after 1945.
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The 1973 occupation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, lasted how long and was organized by which group?
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The Freedom Rides of 1961 were organized to test desegregation on which form of transport?
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What was the main outcome of the Delano Grape Strike and boycott (1965-1970) led by Cesar Chavez?
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Discuss the reasons for the rise of Black Power and radical Black activism in the United States between 1965 and 1968.
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Compare and contrast the methods used by the American Indian Movement in the United States and First Nations activists in Canada to advance indigenous rights after 1945.
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Examine the impact of the civil rights movement on other rights movements in the Americas after 1960.
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Examine the role played by the Supreme Court in ending legal segregation in the United States between 1954 and 1965.
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To what extent was government repression responsible for the decline of the Black Panther Party by the early 1970s?
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Evaluate the importance of media coverage in advancing the civil rights movement in the United States up to 1965.
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Evaluate the view that the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965) failed to bring about real equality for African Americans.
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To what extent did the role of the United States federal government change in response to civil rights and social movements between 1957 and 1968?
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Evaluate the reasons why the civil rights movement succeeded in ending legal segregation in the United States by 1965.
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