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This is a company that offers similar prod- ucts or services in many locations.
What is a franchise
100
Levitt, who bragged that his company could build a house in 16 minutes, offered homes in small residential communities surrounding cities, called this.
What are the Suburbs
100
Kennedy believe they were on the verge of this, and "Beyond [it were] uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus."
What is the New Frontier
100
This was the practice or policy of keeping people of different races, religions, etc., separate from each other.
What is segregation
100
A seamstress and an NAACP officer, she took a seat in the front row of the “colored” section of a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks
200
This is a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
What is a conglomerate
200
He suddenly became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945.
Who is Harry S. Truman
200
This investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president while acting on his own.
What is the Warren Commission
200
In this landmark case, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
In 1946, while in prison, he joined the Nation of Islam. He also developed a philosophy of black superiority and separatism from whites.
Who is Malcolm X
300
This was what companies did in order to encourage consumers to purchase more goods, manufacturers purposely designed products to wear out or become outdated—in a short period of time.
What is Planned obsolescence
300
The National Housing Act of 1949 was passed to provide “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family," which was a part of this city development plan.
What is Urban Renewal
300
This provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older.
What is medicare
300
This prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. It gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
300
The leaders of the African-American community, including many ministers, formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize a boycott. They elected this man, a 26 year old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, to lead them in their protests.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
400
This age group in the 1950s was drawn to a new style of music that featured hard-driving African-American rhythm and blues.
What are Teenagers
400
He was the youngest elected President in US history.
Who is John F. Kennedy
400
Its two main goals for social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
What is The Great Society
400
This made sure that special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered from discrimination were put into place.
What is affirmative action.
500
The music’s heavy rhythm, simple melodies, and lyrics—featuring love, cars, and the problems of being young—captivated young Americans across the country.
What is Rock ‘n’ roll
500
In 1961, this was built in order to isolate it from the rest of Soviet controlled East Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall
500
He was arrested and charged with the assassination of President Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald
500
A team of the best law students under his direction and over the next 23 years, they would win 29 out of 32 cases argued before the Supreme Court. Most notably, he succeeded in overturning the precedent set under Plessy v. Ferguson
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
This term is most associated with Stokeley Carmichael, the 1960's civil rights leader that “[called] for black people to begin to define their own goals . . . [and] to lead their own organizations.”
What is Black Power