Civil Rights
Who made the " I have a dream" speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The U.S.Constitution (1920) extended suffrage to women in federal or state elections.
President of the United States from 1989-1993. Also served as vice-president of the United States, U.S. Congressmen.
George H.W. Bush
What is tariffs?
Taxes imposed by a government on imported or exported goods
When was 9/11?
September 11, 2011
In the 1970s black protest became more violent. Name the radical black group.
Black Panthers
Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public places like certain facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal. What court case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What scandal involving illegal arms shipments to Iran and cash payments to anti-communists in central america was exposed in 1986.
Iran-Contra Affair
What is Robber Barons?
A term used for the businessmen and bankers who dominated the United States industries during the 19th century.
How many presidents have been impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
What were three major civil rights issues?
End segregation, Black voter supression and discriminatory employment.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages.
Who was president from 1980-1988.
Ronald Reagan
The process of foreign citizens leaving their homeland to live and work in a different country.
Immigration
What was the first president in 24 years to balance the budget?
Clinton
Why did civil rights leaders choose to fight segregation in education first?
Because integration would start at a young age and kids should grow up knowing about integration and that is a good thing.
What is the NAACP?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Divide between East and West Berlin that ends in 1989
Berlin Wall
What is Social Darwinism?
A theory that maintained the societies evlved by a natural process through which most fit members.
What are the different Homeland Security?
Coast Guard, Border Patrol, FEMA, Transportation Security Adminstration, INS and Secret Service.
What were the major effects of Reconstruction on African Americans after the Civil War?
-Jim Crow laws
- Plessy v Ferguson
A 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to controll the money suppley.
Federal Reserve Act
First Women appointed to the Supreme Court. She was appointed in 1981 and served on the court untill her retirement in 2006
Sandra Day'OConnor
What policy is based on the idea that governments and law should not interfere with business, finance, or the conditions of people's working lives.
Laissez-Faire
jihadist militant group that emerged in Iraq and spread to Syria.
ISIS