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Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1.He was the 35th president of the United States, took office in 1961 until he assasinated in 1963. 2. His nickname was LBJ.
1. What is John F. Kennedy. 2. Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
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Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1. A national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1966, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older who have worked and paid into the system, and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease. 2. He wrote the "I have a Dream Speech".
1. What is medicare? 2. Who is Martin Luther King?
100
From broad concern felt among Americans from both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress rushed to pass legislation to strengthen security controls. George W. Bush signed this act to strengthen security against and tighten measures against terrorism.
What is the patriot act?
100
This act provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. The lead federal agencies for implementing ESA are the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service. The FWS maintains a worldwide list of endangered species. Species include birds, insects, fish, reptiles, mammals, crustaceans, flowers, grasses, and trees.
What is the endangered species act?
100
Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1. He was an American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989). Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). 2. Gave women the right to vote.
1. Who is Ronald Raegan? 2. What is the 19th amendment?
200
Was a pastor, activist, and leader in the African American civil rights movement. He was best known for using civil disobedience and non violent protests. Was later assasinated during a protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
An American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday April 4, 1968, at the age of 39
What is the assasination of Martin Luther King?
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On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors
What is 9/11?
200
It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the forces of South Vietnam, t.he United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian commands and control centers throughout South Vietnam
What is the tet offensive?
200
The 96-mile wall split families and friends, and became a symbol of the Cold War divisions between East and West, and communism and capitalism. East German guards were ordered to shoot anybody who attempted to cross to West Berlin, and nearly 100 people died trying to escape.
What is the berlin wall?
300
She is is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media",she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
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It encompassed a broad cross section of issues—from restoration of land grants, to farm workers' rights, to enhanced education, to voting and political rights, as well as emerging awareness of collective history. Socially, it addressed what it perceived to be negative ethnic stereotypes of Mexicans in mass media and the American consciousness.
What is the Chicano movement?
300
The 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Democratic Party nominee Senator Barack Obama and running mate Senator Joe Biden defeated Republican Party nominee Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin.
What is the 2008 presidential election?
300
A law passed in 1977 and implemented by Federal Reserve Board Regulation BB, revised in 1995, encouraging depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The Act requires federal agencies responsible for supervising such institutions to evaluate their compliance periodically and to take their records into account in considering applications for deposit facilities.
What is the community reinvestment act 1977?
300
Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1. The act or process of globalizing. 2. She refused to give up her seat to a white passanger on the bus.
1. What is globalization? 2. Who is Rosa Parks?
400
Is an American Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status in 1949 reaching a core constituency of white, middle-class, moderately conservative Protestants. He held large indoor and outdoor rallies; sermons were broadcast on radio and television, some still being re-broadcast today. He was a spiritual adviser to several Presidents; he was particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson (who was considered to be one of Graham's closest friends) and Richard Nixon. During the civil rights movement, he began to support integrated seating for his revivals and crusades; in 1957 he invited Martin Luther King, Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City. Graham bailed King out of jail in the 1960s when he was arrested in demonstrations.
Who is Billy Graham?
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The resolution put before the U.S. Congress by President Lyndon Johnson on Aug. 5, 1964, assertedly in reaction to two allegedly unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and August 4.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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It is a term which has been applied to an international military campaign that started after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. This resulted in an international military campaign to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations. The United States and many other NATO and non-NATO nations such as Pakistan participate in the conflict
What is the war on terror?
400
On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. The hostages were held for 444 days.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
400
Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1. What president passed the affirmative action executive order? 2. Earth's first artificial satellite.
1. Who is JFK? 2. What is sputnik?
500
Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1. He is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. He is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. 2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nickname, 5 letters).
1. Who is Bill Gates? 2. What is NATO?
500
It is an unspecified large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized (though not first used) by U.S. President Richard Nixon in a November 3, 1969. In this usage it referred to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time, who did not join in the counterculture, and who did not participate in public discourse. Nixon along with many others saw this group of Middle Americans as being overshadowed in the media by the more vocal minority.
What is the silent majority?
500
Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1.Who were the presidential election canidates for the election of 2000? 2. United states first moond landing. (give year)
1. Who are Al Gore and George W. Bush? 2. 1969
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It was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the US Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis.
What is the watergate scandal?
500
Double Jeopardy!!! Answer the first question for original points and answer the second question for the points of double jeopardy! 1. This year was the most important in civil rights? 2. War wtihout actual violence.
1. What is 1964? 2. What is the Cold war?