Famous Activists
This civil rights leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the 1963 March on Washington. This is the simplest level of organization.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This global movement, starting in the 1960s, challenged traditional gender roles and advocated for women's rights, including the right to vote and equal pay.
What is the Feminist Movement?
This document, signed in 1787, serves as the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This elected official is the head of the city government.
Who is the mayor?
This term describes the practice of drawing district boundaries in a way that favors one political party over another.
What is gerrymandering?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison and went on to become the country's first Black president, leading efforts to end apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This economic downturn, which began with the stock market crash of 1929, led to widespread unemployment, bank failures, and severe hardship across the United States throughout the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
Signed into law in 2010, this act aimed to expand access to healthcare by requiring individuals to have health insurance and prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
What is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?
This local government process allows citizens to remove an elected official from office before their term has ended.
What is a recall election?
This type of election allows voters to choose candidates from any party, regardless of their party affiliation, and is used in several states.
What is an open primary?
This Indian leader is known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance and played a key role in India’s struggle for independence from British rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This 1960s movement, led by figures like Cesar Chavez, aimed to improve working conditions and wages for farm workers in the United States.
What is the United Farm Workers movement?
This is the number of total senators that serve in the U.S. Senate.
What is 100?
This local government body is typically responsible for making laws and setting policies within a city or town.
What is the city council (or town council)/ Commissioner?
This legal requirement mandates that voters must present identification at the polls, and its impact can vary depending on the state’s laws.
What is voter ID law?
Before Rosa Parks, this 15-year-old girl refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, and was one of the first to challenge bus segregation.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This period in U.S. history, spanning from the 1890s to the 1920s, saw major social, political, and economic reforms, including the establishment of antitrust laws, labor rights, and women's suffrage.
What is the Progressive Era?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol for beverage purposes within the United States.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This process enables citizens to propose statutes (a written law) and put them on the ballot or send them to the legislature
What is an Initiative?
This group of people formally elects the President and Vice President of the United States, based on each state’s number of representatives and senators.
What is the electoral college?
This Swedish environmental activist gained global recognition for her school strike for climate action, which inspired the Fridays for Future movement.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This ideology, which influenced the Russian Revolution of 1917 advocates for a classless society where the means of production are collectively owned and private property is abolished.
What is Communism?
This term describes a tactic used in the Senate to block or delay legislative action by extending debate indefinitely.
What is a filibuster?
This process allows citizens to approve or reject a piece of legislation passed by the legislature and is often used in state or local elections.
What is a veto referendum?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, significantly impacting voter demographics
What is the 26th amendment?