Documentation & Record Keeping Flashcards

The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed:

Answer: Women the right to vote

It prohibited denying the vote based on sex, culminating the suffrage movement.

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruled that:

Answer: Segregated public schools were unconstitutional

The Supreme Court held that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal, overturning Plessy in schools.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' (1963) was written to:

Answer: Clergymen who criticized the civil rights demonstrations

King responded to white clergymen who called his protests unwise and untimely.

Loving v. Virginia (1967) struck down state laws that:

Answer: Banned interracial marriage

The Supreme Court ruled Virginia's ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional.

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918) were a plan for:

Answer: Peace after World War I

Wilson proposed them as a basis for ending World War I and preventing future wars.

Dorothea Lange's photographs, such as 'Migrant Mother,' are primary sources documenting:

Answer: The Great Depression

Lange photographed hardship during the 1930s for a federal agency.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did which of the following?

Answer: Banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment

It outlawed segregation in public places and employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.