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In contrast to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream," this activist claimed, "I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
Malcolm X
This court decision in 1973 legalized abortion throughout the US.
Roe v. Wade
One of the first major Civil Rights efforts of the era began in this city when Rosa Parks refused to vacate her seat on a bus.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
Gay protests at this site in New York City in 1969 marked was a founding moment for the gay pride movement.
What is Stonewall?
This "doctrine" asserted that the US not only had the right to defend itself against nations who attacked, but also to preemptively attack nations the US claimed had hostile intentions.
What is the Bust Doctrine?
She claimed that women in the post-war era suffered from a "problem with no name," meaning a dissatisfaction with the traditional gender roles in American society.
This important decision in 1954 found the doctrine of separate but equal in public schools Unconstitutional and ordered desegregation "with all deliberate speed."
What is Brown vs. BOE
This war in the in the 1950s established the precedent that nuclear weapons would not be used in the effort to contain Communism
What is the Korean War?
Protests on this college campus in 1971 turned deadly when National Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine.
What is Kent State?
This law or "title" was intended to insure that men and women had equal opportunities in higher education.
He desegregated baseball in 1947.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
In Loving vs. Virginia, the Court declared laws forbidding this to be Unconstitutional.
What is Interracial marriage?
This colorful name referred to the purging of gays from the military and government out of a fear that they were vulnerable to blackmail from Communists.
What is the Lavender Scare?
Racial unrest in the summer of 1967 in cities like Newark and Detroit came to be known as this...
What is the Long Hot Summer?
Passed in 1992, this law ensured equal access and necessary accommodations for Americans with physical and mental disabilities?
What is the ADA?
This woman praised the traditional roles and privileges of women in American society and worked to stop the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
One of the most prominent cases 21st Cenutry, Obergefell vs. Hodges legalized this.
What is gay marriage?
In a 1950s educational film, Bert the Turtle advised school children to do this in the event of a nuclear strike.
What is "duck and cover"?
Lyndon Johnson's domestic programs like Medicare and Medicaid were part of a larger program known as this..
What is the Great Society?
The most important achievement during the Obama Presidency involved providing greater access to this for Americans.
What is healthcare?
Many pieces of important environmental legislation in the 1970s such as the Endangered Species Act were passed during the Presidency of this man.
Who was Richard Nixon?
In 2022, Dobbs vs. Jackson reversed an earlier landmark decision on this.
What is abortion?
This bill passed after World War II not only gave returning American soldiers access to a free college education but also enabled them to purchase homes with little to no down payment.
What is the GI Bill?
This commission concluded that the source of racial tensions in the 1960s was systemic racism as well the lack of social mobility for people of color.
What is the Kerner Commission?
When capitalism triumphed over communism in the 1990s, some people suggested that capitalism and democracy would inevitably spread to all nations of the world bringing about the end of this...
what is history?