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- Contemporary with Teotihuacan's greatness was the greatness of the Maya civilization.
- With the decline of the Toltec civilization came political fragmentation in the Valley of Mexico.
- Holding their capital at the great cougar-shaped city of Cuzco, the Inca civilization dominated the Andes region from 1438 to 1533.
- Known as Tawantinsuyu, or "the land of the four regions", in Quechua, the Inca civilization was highly distinct and developed.
- Inca rule [] extended to nearly a hundred linguistic or ethnic communities, some 9 to 14 million people connected by a 25,000 kilometer road system.
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- The Spanish conquest of the Maya civilization—based in the Yucatán Peninsula of present-day Mexico and northern Central America—was a much longer campaign, lasting from 1551 to 1697.
- In 1532, at the Battle of Cajamarca, a group of Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their indigenous Andean Indian allies, ambushed and captured the Emperor Atahualpa of the Inca Empire.
- It was the first step in a long campaign—which took advantage of a recent civil war and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated—that required decades of fighting to subdue the mightiest empire in the Americas.
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- The consistent struggle of the Civil Rights Movement and efforts of hundreds of thousands anonymous African Americans forced legislators to enact a series of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
- Although passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 seemed to indicate a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights, the legislation was limited.
- The media coverage and violent backlash, with the murders of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi, contributed to national support for civil rights legislation.
- Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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- The 1950s and the 1960s witnessed a dramatic development of the Civil Rights Movement that at the time accomplished a series of its goals through the acts of civil disobedience, legal battles, and promoting the notion of Black Power.
- The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
- While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.
- Summarize the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.
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- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted on July 2, 1964, was a landmark piece of legislation.
- Kennedy called for a civil rights act in his speech about civil rights on June 11, 1963.
- Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill.
- Lyndon Johnson singing the Civil Rights Act, surrouneded by congressmen and guests, including Dr.
- Examine the passage and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883.
- Civil Service Reform in the U.S. was a major national issue in the late 1800s a major state issue in the early 1900s.
- Garfield by a rejected office-seeker in 1881, the call for civil service reform intensified.
- The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in ended the spoils system at the federal level in 1883 and created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission to evaluate job candidates on a nonpartisan merit basis.
- Before the Civil Service Reform Act (Pendleton Act) was passed in 1883, civil service appointments were given based on a patronage system; that is, those who were loyal to an individual or party were rewarded with government jobs.
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- During his administration, Truman made several important contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
- First, he created the President's Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946.
- In defiance, African-American activists adopted a combined strategy of direct action, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, and many events described as civil disobedience, giving rise to the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1954–1968.
- He had an impact on the culture of and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
- Examine the struggle over African American Civil Rights in the postwar period
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- While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups such as CORE, the SCLC, and SNCC were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
- The key civil rights events of the 1950s (Brown v.
- The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance.
- The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.
- Outline the course of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s
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- The Nixon administration, prioritizing a return to "law and order," did not advance civil rights to the extent of the previous administrations.
- The Nixon administration did not prioritize civil rights to the extent of the previous Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
- Public support for civil rights had peaked in the mid-1960's, galvanized by Martin Luther King's leadership and media coverage of overt repression in the South.
- A majority of fearful white Americans began to prioritize "law and order" over the advancements of civil rights.
- Nixon's civil rights efforts also included his endorsement of the Equal Rights Ammendment (ERA).