A scandal at this Washington hotel included wire tapping at the Democratic headquarters and led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
What is Watergate?
100
He was president when the stock market crashed.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
100
What government program helps people with permanent disabilities and those over age 65 and with medical care?
What is Medicare?
100
This court case ruled "separate but equal" is legal or constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
The U.S. states was led through WWII by these two American presidents.
Who are FDR and Truman?
200
This New Deal program provides money to disabled and those 65 and older as part of a pension.
What is the Social Security Act?
200
The day the stock market crashed was called
Black Tuesday
200
This is your right to "remain silent" if you are taken into custody and suspected of a crime.
What are your Miranda rights?
200
This is the first school that was integrated in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
What was Central High School?
200
The mass murdering of Jews that occurred in Europe during World War II was known as this.
What is the Holocaust?
300
This decade was filled with flappers, rum runners, and speakeasies?
What is the 1920's?
300
Using borrowed money to purchase stocks is known as this.
What is buying on margin?
300
Examples of this term are: mean text messages, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, or embarrassing pictures or videos.
What is cyber bullying?
300
This is the term used to describe the non-violent protesting that took place under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is civil disobedience?
300
The Ford Motor Company went from producing cars for leisure, to tanks for war. This shift in production is known as...
What is peacetime to wartime production?
400
These radio talks were given by FDR to help people learn about the available government programs during the Depression.
What are fireside chats?
400
This new piece of technology was used by FDR to communicate to the public about his New Deal programs. These are what his talks were called. (You must answer both to get all the points!)
What is the radio and what are fireside chats?
400
The goal of the LGBT, people with disabilities and other minorities is to....
What is to gain fairness and equality just like everyone else?
400
He was the young boy that went down south to visit family and friends and ended up getting murdered in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman.
Who was Emmett Till?
400
This was the immediate cause for U.S. entry into WWII. This is the date it happened. (You must answer both to get all the points)
What is the bombing at Pearl Harbor and December 7, 1941?
500
When the government spends more money than it takes in through taxes.
What is Deficit Spending?
500
These storms out on the Great Plains destroyed farms and crops during the 1930's. The name of those who moved west (California) in search of farm work were called
What is the Dust Bowl and migrant workers
500
This government agency was created in response to the attacks on September 11th and seeks to protect the United States from future terrorist attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
500
This African American activist refused to give up her seat on a bus thus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
500
Posters, music, poems, and films were all used during the war to get people to do something or to send a message. These are all examples of this term.