Civics & Rights
This means taking part in activities like voting or volunteering.
What is civic participation?
This event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the 1929 Stock Market Crash?
Limiting goods like gas and sugar during wartime.
What is rationing?
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This branch makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This is a duty like obeying laws or serving on a jury.
What is civic responsibility?
A long period of economic decline.
What is an economic depression?
Work done by civilians to support the war.
What is the home front?
This case gave Mexican Americans equal protection under the law.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?
This branch enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
A judgment about a group without knowing the facts.
What is prejudice?
Small pieces of ownership in a company.
What are stocks/shares?
Forcing Japanese people into camps during WWII.
What is internment?
This law ended segregation in public places and jobs.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This branch interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
Treating people unfairly based on characteristics.
What is discrimination?
A pattern of growth followed by decline.
What is a boom-and-bust cycle?
A major environmental disaster caused by drought and wind.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This Texas activist worked through the NAACP to fight segregation.
Who is Lulu Belle Madison White?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A person who works to bring about change.
Provide an example.
What is an activist?
Government programs created to provide jobs and relief.
What are New Deal programs?
The region of Texas most affected by the Dust Bowl.
What is the Texas Panhandle?
This term describes the forced separation of people by race.
What is segregation?
This acronym stands for Political, Economic, Geographic, Social.
*Bonus Points for examples!
What is PEGS?