What is the term for the linking of nations through trade, information, technologies, and communication?
What is Globalization?
100
What is the definition of segregation?
What is Social isolation of races (segregation)?
100
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
What is passive resistance leader during the Civil Rights Movement (non-violent) founder and member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Wrote and delivered the “I have a dream speech.”
100
What industry helped to make air travel faster and increased capacity for travelers?
What is Airline Industry?
100
Who invented a way to preserve blood plasma?
Who is Charles Drew?
200
How does globalization impact American life?
What is improvement of all communications, availability of foreign-made goods and services ,outsourcing of jobs?
200
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
What is case that made separate but equal is legal
200
Who was Rosa Parks?
What is African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a public bus. She was arrested. Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
200
What automobile manufacturer created the first Hybrid car?
What is Honda?
200
Who led the Manhattan Project?
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
300
What is a current concern for American Foreign Policy?
What is Increase in terrorist activities and/or conflicts in the Middle East?
300
What was the NAACP? What was its goal?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The group challenged laws to gain equality.
300
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
What is African American lawyer and head of the NAACP's legal section.
300
What media source replaced newspapers, magazines, and television as a news source in the 1990's?
What is the internet?
300
What two individuals made advancements in architecture and dance?
Who are Frank Lloyd Wright and Martha Graham?
400
How did immigration patterns change in the U.S. after the Cold War?
What is more Hispanics and Asians?
400
What was the ruling in the Supremem Court case Brown v. Board of Educaton?
What is Supreme Court ruled that schools should be desegregated because separate was not equal.
400
Who was Jackie Robison?
What is African American signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers
400
What is the United States organization for space exploration called?
What is NASA?
400
Who is Henry Louis Gates?
What is a historian who specializes in African American history.
500
What are three concerns about the global environment?
What is climate change
Conservation of water and other natural resources
Energy issues (dependence on foreign oil)
World health issues (global pandemics)
500
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is African Americans boycotted the public bus system in Montgomery Alabama for 381 days in a effort to desegregate public transportation.
500
What president desegregated the military?
What is Harry Truman
500
How have computers changed over time?
What is they are smaller, faster, and hold more data than ever.