A country with great economic, political, and military influence in the world.
What is a Superpower?
100
An intense competition between nations to have more and better weapons.
What is a Cold War?
100
The movement for full freedom for blacks.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
100
A political party who were comprised of Southern Democrats who were so dismayed at the direction of the Democratic party so they created their own party.
Who are the Dixiecrats?
100
An economic system that allows for the private ownership of land, property, and the free flow of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
200
A competition among militaries to have better weapons than one another.
What is an Arms Race?
200
A group of people that we did not trust during the cold war because they were communist
Who are the Soviet Union?
200
On February 1, 1960, students from NC Technical College took seats at a segregated Woolworth's Lunch Counter.
What was the sit-in movement?
200
A South Carolina governor who was elected state judge six years after his term as governor. He retired in January of '03 and died six month later on June 26, 2003.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
200
A public display a group's political opinion, usually in protest against a policy, decision, or law.
What is a demonstration?
300
Information designed to persuade or sometimes mislead.
What is Propaganda?
300
Most of the people that moved to the suburbs during the Cold War were white earning the era this name.....
What is "White Flight"
300
A court case where 24 families went against the Board of Education to get rid of segregation in schools.
What is Briggs V. Elliot?
300
During this, Harry S. Truman ran for reelection and he was predicted to lose against Dewey and the "Dixiecrats".
What was the election of 1948
300
A written request or demand that supporters sign in order to show agreement.
What is a petition?
400
Smaller armed conflict that becomes a stand-in for a clash between superpowers.
What is a Proxy War?
400
Also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment act, this was bill was passed to help soldiers that had just returned from war to readjust to civilian life.
What is the GI Bill?
400
30 students were killed during this in 1968 during a Civil Rights march.
What is the Orange-burg Massacre?
400
An organizes protest in front of a business or office against its practices.
What is a picket?
500
An economy that is controlled and planned by a central authority or government.
What is a Command Economy?
500
A large part of land in the southwestern part of the state that became one of the nations largest center for manufacturing nuclear weapons.
What is the Savannah River Site?
500
A group of 10 students who were arrested for protesting outside of segregated lunch counters.
What is the Friendship 9?
500
A formal declaration of principles by a political group, usually a political party.
What is a platform?
500
An attitude or culture that values only what can be bought or possessed.