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2 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous letter to a group of clergymen from the ____ jail.

5 ____ is a national health insurance program for people over age 65.

6 Indians of All Tribes occupied ____ Island between 1969 and 1971.

7 The British ____ was the introduction of new British bands to an American audience.

9 The Supreme Court banned racial segregation in ____ schools in 1954.

10 ____ was the plan that brought in white volunteers to help with voter registration efforts.

12 Miranda v. Arizona granted the accused the right to have a ____ present during police investigations.

17 Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" showed the ways in which Americans were poisoning their environment with ____.

20 Most of the women polled for

"The Feminine Mystique" were ____.

22 President Truman banned ____ in the military.

25 The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities offered grants and fellowships to artists, writers, and ____.

28 Betty Friedan's research led her to conclude that many women felt trapped by ____ life.

29 Plessy v. Ferguson established the legality of "____ but equal" educational facilities.

30 A pivotal reason for which Kennedy defeated Nixon in the 1960 election was that Kennedy fared better than Nixon in ____ debates.

31 To enforce the ____ law at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, President Eisenhower sent 1,000 federal troops.

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1 The funeral home in Three Rivers, Texas, refused to handle Felix Longoria's burial because he was ____

American. 3 Roe v. Wade dealt with ____

rights. 4 Andy Warhol is the ____ who is

sometimes associated with soup cans.

8 Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act required that universities fund women's ____ programs fairly.

9 Head Start was an antipoverty program that provided for a ____ education for low-income families.

11 University of California v. Bakke struck down the ____ system.

13 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. encouraged companies to create ____ action programs.

14 Brown v. Board of Education declared ____ to be illegal in public education.

15 The passage of the Voting Rights Act led to dramatic increases in African American voter ____.

16 George Wallace was the governor who banned the ____ march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

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free health care to the poor is ____.

19 The actions of the SNCC led to the ____ of many southern restaurants.

21 Lee Harvey Oswald ____ John F. Kennedy.

23 Charles Manson was responsible for a mass ____ in California in 1969.

24 The NAACP and the Montgomery Improvement Association challenged racial segregation of public transportation by organizing a ____ of the bus system by African Americans.

25 The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided $1.3 billion in aid to ____ in poor areas.

26 The United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war because of the ____ missile crisis.

27 Delgado v. Bastrop Independent School District ruled that the segregation of Mexican American children in a ____ school district was illegal.

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