This act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin and provides federal government with powers to enforce desegregation
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964
100
Eleanor Roosevelt
What is the wife of FDR who helped him monitor New Deal programs and became a strong voice for women and minorities; a great humanitarian and the "world's first lady"
100
Americans overreact to the threat of communism/ comunists are called "Reds"
What is Red Scare
100
Thomas Edison invented the ____ in 1879
What is Lightbulb
100
Political Issues
States' Rights
Modernization
Sectionalism
Nullification crisis
Economic Differences between North/South
What is Origins of the Civil War
200
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded a political party known as the _____ to fight police brutality in the ghetto.
What is Black Panthers
200
Government practice of spending more than is taken in from taxes (used to hopefully jump start the economy)
What is Deficit spending
200
America's most famous gangster/ from Chicago
What is Al Capone
200
Alexander Graham Bell invented the _____ in ____
What is telephone in 1876
200
Ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and it's impact
What is Abolitionist Debate
300
Court Case in 1896 and it ruled that the “Separate but equal” law did not violate the 14th amendment, which guarantees all Americans equal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
300
An act passed in 1935 gave government-payed pensions to American citizens over the age 65 as well as provided help for the unemployed, the disabled, and the needy.
What is Social Security
300
Babe Ruth
Langston Hughes
Henry Ford
Billie Holliday
What is Influential people of 1920
300
Burning off the impurities of iron to produce steel
What is Bessemer process
300
Stability of the government
Power of the church
Foreign domination of economy
Large gap between rich and poor
concentration of land ownership
Porfirio Diaz ruled like a dictator
What is Main problems faced my Mexico
400
After years of unequal schooling, for reasons from racist schools to insufficiently funded schools the ____was formed to fight for equal education for American Indians in 1969
What is National Indian Education Association (NIEA)
400
A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in banks
What is FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
400
Group of Harding's advisors from his old days in Ohio/ unscrupulous and currupt/ their misdeeds helped wreck Harding's presidency
What is Ohio Gang
400
How did the growth of railroads improve society?
What is encouraged urban growth and provided many jobs
400
Alvaro Obregon overthrows Carranza in the year ____
What is 1920
500
In 1961, about 700 representatives from 64 tribes wrote this document
What is Declaration of Indian Purpose
500
The Hundred Days
What is the period at the start of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency in 1933, when many New Deal programs were passed by Congress
500
Execution of Al Capone's rivals
What is St. Valentines Day Massacre
500
Changes in track design that allowed trains to travel faster
What is double sets of tracks allowed trains traveling in opposite directions to pass each other
500
Maintained a firm grasp over power in Mexico between 1877-1880 & 1884-1911