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A 1965 law that enforced the 15th amendment by outlawing race-, gender-, or belief-based discrimination at the polls.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
100
A year-long bus boycott in Alabama that began in 1955.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
The change depicted above has a common name
What is sub-urbanization?
200
A Senate committee that held & televised trials with the intent of exposing those who held communist beliefs.
What is HUAC?
300
What is
300
A government official whose namesake "-ism" characterized US domestic policy during the 1950's Red Scare.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
This law was promised by Eisenhower to provide a "modern, efficient highway system...essential to meet the needs of our growing population.”
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
300
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This woman was against the ERA reform.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
400
1970 legislation that allowed the federal government to limit harmful industrial and automobile emissions.
What is Clean Air Act?
400
Environmentalist and author of "Silent Spring."
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
"We choose to go to the moon ... and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.."
What Cold War president said this?
Who was John F. Kennedy?
500
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1972 law that outlawed gender discrimination in academic programs that receive federal funding.
What is Title IX?