Famous People
Policies
Events
Civil Law and Court Cases
Mr. Tucker goes Random
100
He was a American civil rights lawyer and the first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thurgood Marshall
100
This bill awarded federal loans to World War 2 vets to purchase new homes, farms, businesses or free college tuition.
Montgomery GI Bill
100
This competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union was called-
Space Race
100
In 1954, The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
Brown v. Board of Education
100
This Astronaut was the first man on the moon-
Neil Armstrong
200
She was the first female American astronaut in space.
Sally K. Ride
200
This policy of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs such as HUD, Medicaid and welfare as a war of poverty.
The Great Society
200
This metaphor alluded to the invisible barriers that prevent minorities and women from being promoted to top corporate positions.
Glass Ceiling
200
The 1973 Supreme Court decision holding that a state ban on all abortions was unconstitutional.
Roe v. Wade
200
This civil rights leader opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations.
Martin Luther King
300
This scientist developed a vaccine to prevent polio in the early 1950s?
Dr. Jonah Salk
300
This act banned segregation in all places of public accommodation-
Civil Rights Act of 1964
300
This culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture. It was associated with the Hippies and the Flower Children-
Counter Culture
300
This 1963 court case ruled if a person cannot afford an attorney one may have one appointed by the government-
Gideon v. Wainwright
300
This Civil Rights organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
NAACP
400
In 1962 this man made the first orbital rocket-powered flight into space.
John Glenn
400
This law was designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage-
Voting Rights Act of 1965
400
This even when the twin towers in New York City were attacked by the Al Qaeda which resulted in the War on Terrorism.
September 11/Twin Tower Attack/9-11
400
This controversial law was overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001, after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspected terrorists.
The Patriot Act
400
This was the name for the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world.
War on Terrorism
500
She was the first woman to be supreme court justice, appointed by Reagan in 1981.
Sandra Day O'Connor
500
This reactionary movement of the 1980s was to restore traditional values against social or political change of the Civil Rights movement and the New Left of the 1960s.
Conservative Revolution/Reagan Revolution
500
This economic policy of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity.
Reaganomics
500
This landmark U.S. civil rights law from 1990 that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
500
This civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama and so triggered the national civil rights movement
Rosa Parks