History Test 5: Terms
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- de jure
- based on laws
- "Jim Crow"
- refers to the system of separate and equal
- March on Washington
- MLK led a march in the summer of '63 where he then gave the "I have a Dream" speach
- CORE
- Congress that tested laws integrating public buses through "Freedom Rides"
- Bay of Pigs
- JFK's plan to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro went haywire because there was no air cover
- Sputnik
- The first satellite in space by the Soviets
- SNCC
- Name was later changed from "non-violent" to "national" by Stokley Carmichael
- Sit-Ins
- non-violent demonstrations where people sit in "white only " areas and refuse to move
- Green Berets
- Guerrilla warfare specialists who he sent to Vietnam as military advisors
- "Graveyard" votes
- the votes of people who are dead, but still on the voter's card
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Civil Rights act that JFK pushed after declaring that Civil Rights was a moral rather than legal issue
- Apollo 11
- The spacecraft that safely landed Neil Armstrong on the moon
- Plessey v. Ferguson
- decision that made "separate but equal" legal
- Peace Corps
- volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty
- New Frontier
- JFK's new domestic plan.
- Brown v. Board of Education
- This case required schools to be integrated (During the Eisenhower adm.)
- de facto
- based on reality and custom