A Nation in Transition
Nation in Transition Cont....
It's in the Past....maybe
Civil Rights Legislation
Civil Rights
100

President that started the New Frontier Programs.

Who is JFK?

100

They came before Hippies.  Usually seen in black clothing, berets, and beards.  They went against the social norms of the time.

What are the beatniks?

100

Exaggeration of the truth...helped start the Spanish-American War?

What is Yellow Journalism?

100

Ended all racism in public places and discrimination in the hiring practices.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

100

People that rode busses through southern states to protest public tranportation discrimination.

Who were Freedom Riders?

200

New Frontier Programs that helped with health expenses for the ederly and poor.

What is Medicaid and Medicare?

200

__________, Alabama was where the bombing of a church occurred killing 4 young girls.

What is Birmingham?

200

A wall was built around __________to keep others from the east from leaving.

What is Berlin?

200

Known as the Fair Housing Act, was passed due to African Americans living in slums.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

200

Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham.  He put down a march violently in 1963.

What is Bull Connor?

300

First African American to sit on the Supreme Court, helped get rid of segregation in public schools.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

300

Born between 1946 and 1964....lotta people born during that time.

What are Baby Boomers?

300

This court case said segregation was legal.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

300

Eliminated literacy tests.

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

300

Where MLK was assassinated.

Where is Memphis?

400
Eisenhower signed this bill which was the largest infrastructure bill of the 1900s.  It connected American again.

What is the Interstate Highway Act?

400

_________, Alabama was the location of a bus boycott that lasted for well over 300 days.

What is Montgomery?

400

Space Mission that took us to the Moon!

What is Apollo 11?

400

Passed at making schools more gender equal.  Attempt at preventing sexual harrassment and discrimination in schools.

What is Title IX?

400

He was the govenor of Arkansas who sent the U.S. National Guard to prevent the integration of Central High School.  

Who Orval Faubus?

500

They signed Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, and Johnny Cash.

What is Sun Studios?

500

The automobile boom led to the boom of these two entities.  We use them on vacation.

What are hotels and the fast food industry?

500

This is a tax on imports.

What is a tariff?

500

Amendment that eliminated poll taxes.

What is the 24th Amendment?

500

Talked down the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours.

Who Strom Thurmond?

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