New Melinium
which goal was the focus of the Great Society?
A. To increase taxation
B. To privatize education
C. To expand voting rights
D. To fight social inequality
To fight social inequality
Which innovation is credited to Henry Ford and made the manufacturing process more effecient?
The Assembly Line
The primary reason for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949 was to —
Protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
What principle is most strongly associated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impact on the Civil Rights movement?
Non-Violence
What was a primary cause of the early 1970s energy crisis during the Carter administration?
OPEC embargoed the sale of oil to the United States and other countries that supported Israel.
This Muckraker uncovered disgusting conditions in meat packing plants resulting in several legislative acts to improve their safety
Upton Sinclair
This President was the first to have official visits both China and The USSR
Richard Nixon
This woman was arrested for violating segregation laws on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
This movement, characterized by murals depicting their culture, culminated in student protests, including a mass walkout in Los Angeles schools in 1968
The Chicano Movement
In the United States, why is it illegal to harm, wound, or kill any species that is in danger of becoming extinct?
the Endangered Species Act
This muckraker and social reformer created a community for immigrants in Chicago called the Hull House
Jane Addams
President John F. Kennedy responded to reports that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites in Cuba by —
Ordering a naval blockade of Cuba
What was the main difference between the strategies of the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King Jr.
Violence vs Non Violence
These were bus rides organized by students from the north into the south to protest segregation laws
Freedom Rides
Reagan made a campaign promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court. Who was that woman?
Sandra Day O’ Connor
On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill creating the government agency described by the excerpt below.
“to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
National Park Service
This Cold War policy at the end of World War 2 promised American support for any country fighting communism. It was first used to support Turkey and Greece
Truman Doctrine
The sit-in protest at Woolworth's lunch counter, freedom rides and the March on Washington all resulted in...
The expansion of political and economic opportunities for minority citizens
This triple lettered hate group oppressed African American through racial violence including lynchings and intimadation
The KKK
How did Betty Friedan’s book, The Feminine Mystique, affect the lives of everyday Americans?
By inspiring women to question their traditional social roles
This Robber Baron wrote the book "Gospel of Wealth" that encouraged other industrialists to give back to their community.
Andrew Carnegie
This French word means relaxing of tensions between the US and its communist rivals
Detente
This Civil Rights legislation mandated that funding be applied equally between men and women in education. The result is a change in the scholarships to college sports
Title IX (Title 9)
Who was the Supreme Court Justice who oversaw Brown V. Board of Education, that outlawed segregation in public schools?
Thurgood Marshall