Civil Rights Movement
This protest tactic involved African American students occupying segregated lunch counters and refusing to leave.
What is a sit-in?
Lyndon Johnson’s ambitious reform agenda aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
What was the Great Society?
Congress passed this resolution in 1964 after reported attacks on U.S. ships, greatly expanding presidential war powers.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Betty Friedan wrote this influential 1963 book criticizing the limited roles available to suburban women.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
Rachel Carson wrote this influential environmental book warning about pesticide use.
What is Silent Spring?
This political scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign in 1974
What is Watergate?
This student-led civil rights organization emphasized grassroots activism and voter registration drives.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This Johnson-era initiative created programs such as Job Corps and Head Start.
What was the War on Poverty?
This major 1968 military campaign shocked Americans and undermined confidence in victory in Vietnam.
What was the Tet Offensive?
Founded in 1966, this organization fought for women’s equality in employment and education.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This Native American activist organization occupied Alcatraz and protested federal policies in the 1970s.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
In 1973, Arab oil-producing nations cut off exports to the United States, creating this crisis.
What was the oil embargo?
Integrated groups of activists rode interstate buses into the South in 1961 to challenge segregation laws
What were the Freedom Rides?
This movement promoted racial pride, self-determination, and economic empowerment in the late 1960s.
What is Black Power?
This massacre of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers became symbolic of wartime atrocities.
What was the My Lai massacre?
This 1969 uprising at a New York gay bar became a turning point in the LGBTQ rights movement.
What was the Stonewall Inn riot?
This 1979 nuclear accident in Pennsylvania increased public fears about nuclear power.
What was Three Mile Island?
This economic condition combined inflation with unemployment and slow growth.
What is stagflation?
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech during this 1963 event.
What was the March on Washington?
This youth-led political movement criticized conformity and Cold War liberalism.
What was the New Left?
Daniel Ellsberg leaked these classified documents exposing government deception about the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This Supreme Court case established a constitutional right to privacy regarding contraception for married couples.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline became known by this term.
Who are the water protectors?
This conservative political movement associated with Ronald Reagan emphasized tax cuts, deregulation, and smaller government.
What is the Reagan Revolution?
Signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965, this law outlawed literacy tests and strengthened federal enforcement of voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society criticized apathy and called for participatory democracy.
What is the Port Huron Statement?
Passed in 1973, this law attempted to limit the president’s ability to commit troops without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
This 1973 Supreme Court case legalized abortion nationwide.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This 2015 international climate agreement sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This scandal involved secret arms sales to Iran and illegal funding of Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
What was the Iran-Contra affair?