Nature & Structure
Presidents & challenges
Major Legal Changes
Grab Bag
Mish Mash
100
This electoral system is sometimes called "winner take all" and the person or party who wins the majority of the votes wins all of the power.
What is First Past the Post (as opposed to proportional representation)?
100
This was changed in the Constitution from 21 to 18 because of complaints about the hypocrisy of the Vietnam draft.
What is the voting age?
100
Name one of the major Supreme Court cases discussed (HINT: one has to do with the Civil Rights movement and one has to do with women's issues).
Either Brown v. Board (1954, desegregating elementary schools) or Roe v. Wade (1973, legalizing abortion).
100
This is the correct order of the US presidents in the case study.
Who are Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, & Nixon?
100
During this event, the National Guard shot 13 people to stop them from protesting/rioting, 4 of whom died.
What was the Kent State shooting/massacre?
200
These are the three branches of government (need all 3 to get points).
What are the legislative, judicial, and executive branches?
200
This was LBJ's program to fight poverty and eradicate racism. Many of the policies were ideas originated in the Kennedy administration.
What is the Great Society?
200
Numerous attempts to pass this constitutional amendment were unsuccessful despite support by NOW, the president, and the Senate.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
200
This president was known for having progressive domestic policies that were negated because of his foreign involvements.
Who is Johnson?
200
The Military Industrial Complex, the NAACP, NOW, BP Oil, and the Teamsters Union are all examples of what?
What are pressure groups?
300
To win the presidency, a candidate must win at least 270 of these.
What are electoral votes?
300
This president was deeply affected by the book The Other America and worked on anti-poverty initiatives. By the end of the 1960s, the number of families in poverty had dropped by almost half.
Who is Kennedy?
300
Students are sometimes surprised to learn that this president created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Who is Nixon?
300
This president promised to restore order domestically while improving relations abroad; he was successful in using ping-pong diplomacy with China.
Who is Nixon?
300
Nixon was forced to resign because of this scandal.
What is Watergate?
400
This political party has almost always been supported by labor, but in the 1960s, "Dixiecrats" shifted their support to this political party because of civil rights issues. NOTE: name both parties.
What are the Democratic and Republican parties?
400
Nixon appealed to this group by promising a return to law and order and calm after the turbulence of the mid to late 1960s.
Who are conservative white Americans or the Silent Majority?
400
This was enacted by Eisenhower after the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957.
What is the National Defense Education Act or NDEA?
400
This president reluctantly enforced civil rights rulings by the Supreme Court because he saw it as his duty; however, he would have preferred a smooth path to desegregation.
Who is Eisenhower?
400
Name and order the four major assassinations in the US.
Who are JFK, Malcolm X, Dr. King, & RFK.
500
Name at least one pressure group from the case study. You must be able to give the full name or a description (not just the acronym).
Various: National Organization for Women, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Students for a Democratic Society etc.
500
SDS, the Weathermen, and the Black Panthers were all considered what at some point in the case study?
What are extremist groups?
500
These (passed in 1964 & '65) banned discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, gender, and religion, in addition to protecting voting rights. NOTE: You need to name two pieces of legislation.
What are the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act?
500
This president was deeply concerned about rising poverty in the US and passed the Equal Pay Act, which reduced the pay gap between men and women.
Who is Kennedy?
500
Name one key figure from the women's rights movement.
Gloria Steinam, Betty Friedan, etc.
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