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What Supreme Court decision decided separate could not be equal? |
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Brown vs Board of Education |
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What was LBJ's domestic program called? |
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Name 4 key pieces of LBJ sponsored legislation? |
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1. Medicare and Medicaid 2. Elementary and Secondary Education Act 3. New Immigration Law- Abolished the quotas from the 1920s. Also increased opportunities for Asians and Latin Americans to immigrate to the US. 4. National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities |
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What president caused an uproar by pardoning the Vietnam draft dodgers? |
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What area of concern was raised by discoveries at Love Canal? |
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What area of concern was raised at Three Mile Island? |
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What did the Republicans call the adding of unemployment and inflation? |
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What did televangelists like Jerry Falwell call Nixon's silent majority? |
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Upon becoming president, what group did Reagan fire? |
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Striking air traffic controllers |
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What company was the object of the most famous antitrust case of the 80s? |
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What did the Democrats call the Reagan policies they claimed led to recession? |
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How many consecutive years if economic growth dud the US experience under Reagan? |
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What woman led to the fight against the ERA and defeated it? |
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What was the nickname for young, upwardly mobile, professionals? |
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What did the Immigration Act of 1986 do? |
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Legalized illegal aliens before 1982 |
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In what year was the worst stock market crash in history up to that time? |
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What was raised to cabinet level status in 1988? |
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Who wrote Bonfire of the Vanities? |
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Name 3 things a person below the poverty line does have counted as part of his income? |
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1. Dollar value of food stamps 2. Housing Subsidies 3. Health care programs |
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What FDR New Deal program reimburses the victims of the 180 billion dollar savings and loan scandal? |
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What multi-faceted "victim" group had legislation passed that led to a litigation quagmire and was the name of the act? |
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Disabled Americans; Americans with Disabilities Act |
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What third party candidate got 19% of the vote in 1992? |
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Free trade among US, Mexico, and Canada |
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What legislation allowed a person to go on extended leave for the birth of a child and then come back to the same job? |
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In what year did Republicans for the first time since the 20s take control of both houses of Congress? |
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In 1988, who was the first incumbent vice president to be elected since 1840? |
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Did Reagan veto or sign protectionist trade legislation? |
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What was the group of newborns of 1946-49 called? |
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Name 2 dramatists, along with their work, that probed the issue of American middle class values |
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1. Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman 2. Edward Albee - Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
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Who was the most famous Pop Art exponent? |
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Who wrote The Affluent Society? |
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Who wrote The Organization Man? |
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Who wrote Man in the Gray Flannel Suit? |
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Who wrote The Lonely Crowd? |
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Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking? |
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Name a left-wing college group. |
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS |
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Who led the United Farm Workers and what did he organize as an activity? |
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Cesar Chavez; Delano Grape Strike |
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What was the "reading your rights" Supreme Court decision? |
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What controversial constitutional amendment proposal failed to gain the sufficient number of states? |
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What topic was the focus of the Wounded Knee demonstration? |
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Militant action supporting self determination |
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What was the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion? |
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What topic did the Bakke decision deal with? |
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Reverse discrimination in the acceptance to college (Affirmative Action)
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In 1965, LBJ issued an order to hire more minorities and women. What did this later become known as? |
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Give 3 black authors and their work? |
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1. Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man 2. James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time 3. Richard Wright- Native Son |
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Give the title and author of the landmark feminist book of 1963. |
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan |
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Give the title and author for the book that was a psychological study of American society and "inner" and "other" directed people. |
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The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman |
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Give 4 provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. |
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1. Outlawed Closed Shop Policy
2. Required unions to give 60 days notice to state before they strike (60 day cooling off period)
3. Gave the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board power to seek injunctions against employers or unions
4. Authorized individual states to outlaw union security clauses |
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Give 4 major topics of the 1968 State of the Union message. |
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1. Crime 2. Employment 3. Poverty 4. Decaying cities |
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How did Tom Wolfe describe the 70s? |
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What term did Arthur Schlesinger use to describe the Nixon presidency? |
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What did the G.I bill offer? |
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1. education benefit 2. low interest government backed loans for houses and to start businesses 3. GI mortgage |
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Did Truman veto Taft-Hartley? |
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Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during most of the Eisenhower years? |
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In Eisenhower's farewell address, what did he say we must guard against? |
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Military Industrial Complex |
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What was the nickname of JFK's domestic program? |
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How did JFK get the steel operators to rescind their price increases? |
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He put heavy pressure on U.S. Steel president and other steel executives |
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What did Gerald Ford's WIN buttons stand for? |
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What tool did the Supreme Court use to insure integrated schools? |
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What woman led the fight against feminist activities? |
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What crusader inspired the Traffic and Highway Safety Acts? |
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What scandal undid the Republican administration in 1974? |
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What governor of Alabama stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent black students from entering? |
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What committee was Stokely Carmichael a member of when he preached Black Power? |
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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee |
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List, in order, the presidents between FDR's death and Reagan. |
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1. Truman 2. Eisenhower 3. JFK 4. Johnson 5. Nixon 6. Ford 7. Carter 8. Reagan |
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What was Eisenhower's most influential domestic initiative, according to the text? |
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What were 3 major negative effects of the interstate highway program? |
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1. Made a lot of noise 2. Split up towns 3. Created white flight from cities |
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What overturned Plessy vs Ferguson? |
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Brown vs Board of Education |
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What was ironic about the Supreme Court's order to desegregate "with all deliberate speed."? |
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Into what town did Eisenhower send troops in order to desegregate schools? |
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What was the 22nd Amendment? |
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2 term limit for president and that if you take over presidency from vice presidency it counts as long as its more than 2 years |
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What were the 4 presidential candidates in the 1948 election? |
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Dewey, Thurmond, Wallace, Truman |
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What was the nickname given to Truman's domestic policy? |
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What were 2 major beliefs of "modern Republicanism" as proposed by Eisenhower? |
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1. Fiscally conservative 2. Adjust the New Deal |
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What was the socio-economic impact of the Interstate Highway Program? |
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White people moved out of the cities |
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Who was the senator who brought anti-communist investigations to a fever pitch? |
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What eventually happened politically to McCarthy? |
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Censured- Senate voted to express disapproval of the senator |
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What was the key civil rights oriented Supreme Court decision in 1954, and what previous decision did it overturn? |
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Brown vs Board of Education overturned Plessy vs Ferguson |
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What 2 tactics did MLK use to fight racial discrimination in the South? |
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Who was Eisenhower VP from 53-61? |
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Who was the Democratic candidate for president in 52 and 56? |
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What were the "right to work" laws allowing people to do |
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What was TV first of the 1960 election |
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What 2 states were added in 1959? |
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What 2 labor unions united in 1959? |
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What were 3 points of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959? |
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1. Severe punishment if federal officials misuse funds 2. It gave more power to the states 3. banned secondary boycotts 3. communists or convicted criminals could not become officers of the union |
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What were 3 obstacles Kennedy had to overcome in his 1960 campaign? |
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1. Being a Catholic 2. Being young 3. He was unknown |
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In 1947, what sport was integrated and what was the name of the athlete involved? |
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Baseball; Jackie Robinson |
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House UN-American Activities Committee |
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What Congress men gained fame from Hiss-Chambers case? |
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What cabinet department was created during the Eisenhower administration? |
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Health Education and Welfare |
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What legislation was passed in response to Russian space achievements? |
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National Defense Education Act (NDEA) |
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About how long did it take for school desegregation to be enforced? |
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What was the organized group of old people called? |
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What is the region from VA thru FL and TX to CA called? |
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In the 70s and 80s most jobs were no longer created in the industrial sector of our economy. In what sector were these new jobs created |
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Were the percentage of union workers decreasing or increasing in the 70s and 80s? |
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Other than anti-racist policies, what else did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit besides racism? |
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LBJ issues an executive order to hire more minorities and women. What did this later become known as? |
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What was the name of the decision that said one's admission to college could not be base on racial identification alone? |
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Bakke vs. Regents of the University of California |
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What are Chicanos and Braceros? |
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Mexican-Americans and Mexican laborers working in the U.S |
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What did Newton Minnow describe TV as? |
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What does WASP stand for? |
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White Anglo Saxon Protestant |
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Who designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York? |
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Who was most noted for "abstract expressionism"? |
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In 1973, what department's budget passed that of the Department of Defense? |
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Health and Human Services |
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Name three books and their authors in which conformity in American society is the subject |
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The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman The Organization Man by William Whyte The Man in the Gray Flannel by Sloan Wilson |
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Name two novelists and their works who were known as realists |
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Norman Mailer- The Village Voice Herman Wouk- The Winds of War Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman |
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What philosophy from the Plessy decision did the 54 SC decide was not valid? |
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What civil rights leader gained prominence because of the Montgomery bus boycott? |
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What was the name of the lady who sparked the bus boycott? |
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What did the Roe V. Wade decision in 1973 say? |
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- Abortion is okay during first trimester - Right to privacy |
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What strategy did Ike use to deny McCarthy information? |
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Name a moderate civil rights group. |
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What were the 5 dominant domestic issues in post WWII? |
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1. Labor Union 2. Civil Rights 3. Economic 4. Role of Government 5. Feminism 6. mass movement to Suburbia |
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Name 4 areas Reagan were involved in? |
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1. Lowering federal tax 2. Fired air traffic controllers 3. Welfare reform 4. Veto protectionist trade bill 5. Social issues |
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What did those who rejected the established oriented New Deal left call themselves? |
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What were the religious right called? |
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What were the blacks called who defied the Jim Crow laws? |
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What were 3 domestic acts that dealt with children? |
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1. Aid to family with dependent children 2. National defense education 3. Secondary education act |
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Who was the largest "minority" group? |
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What Nixon call the policy in which power funds and responsibility would flow from Washington to the states? |
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Who inspired the highway and traffic safety acts? |
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What was the theme song of the civil rights movement? |
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What area of concern did the Civil Right Act of 1957 and CRA of 1960 deal with? |
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What is de facto segregation? |
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Segregation especially in school that happens “by fact” but is not required by law |
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What lawyer who later became a Supreme Court justice argued black civil rights cases before the Supreme Court? |
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Who led the bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama? |
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What civil rights activist technique was used to protest segregated Southern lunch counters? |
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Whom did Eisenhower appoint to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? |
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Did Ike’s Supreme Court appointment have a strict or loose interpretation of the Constitution? |
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In what two areas did the GI Bill offer benefits to veterans? |
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What did American households have more of than running water or indoor toilets? |
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What was the “lost generation” of the 20s replaced by in the 1950s? |
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What did Jack Kerouac write? |
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On the Road, The Subterraneans, Big Sur, Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard |
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What was Kennedy’s program of proposals called? |
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What did Eisenhower warn about in his farewell address? |
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Military industrial complex |
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What was JFK’s most famous quote in his inaugural? |
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"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country." |
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What was the issue that JFK had with US steel? |
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Pressured the steel industry into reversing price increases that he considered dangerously inflationary. |
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What did JFK have in common with Coolidge and later Reagan? |
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Was JFK successful in getting Medicare into law? |
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what were blacks called who defied Jim Crowe in interstate bus terminals |
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what did JFK have to do to insure black James Meredith’s entrance into the U of Miss? |
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Name two more militant black groups |
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Black Panther Party, Republic of New Africa |
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What was the name of Martin Luther king’s group? |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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What was the theme song for the civil rights movement? |
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What did James Baldwin write? |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son Giovanni's Room Another Country Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, |
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What event did MLK give his “I have a dream” speech at? |
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August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington |
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What was the date of JFK’s assassination? |
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12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963 |
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What Muslim Leader was assassinated in 1965? |
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How did southern Senators generally delay Civil Rights legislation? |
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With what country did Nixon open trade in 1971 and what was his form of diplomacy called? |
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China. Ping Pong Diplomacy. |
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In what area did Truman bar segregation? |
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What did the McCarran Act deal with |
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National safety and individual liberties- Domestic Act - no one can support a communist government or get employed by one |
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What amendment was proposed in 1972 and eventually was defeated |
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Give the title and author of the modern day muckraker of the military industrial complex |
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Ralph Nader- Unsafe at Any Speed |
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Name an author and title of a novel about adolescent problems in the US |
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J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye |
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What novel based on an actual event in slave days did William Styron write |
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The Confessions of Nat Turner |
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What was the name given to northerners going to south Civil rights demonstrations |
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Positive- Freedom Riders Negative- Outside Agitators |
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What did Eisenhower do when Arkansas governor Orval Faubes tried to deny black students entry into Little Rocks's Central High School? |
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What did the McCarran-Walter Act deal with? |
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Restricting immigration because of communism |
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Give several usefully descriptive facts about demographic evolution of the cities from the 40's to the 80's |
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Whites moved away from the cities into suburbs while blacks moved to northern cities because of the racism and lack of economic opportunity in the south |
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What did Detractors blame Spock's Baby and Child Care book for? |
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What was the name of the group investigating the Kennedy assassination? |
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Who was the Republican Candidate in 1964? |
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Barry Goldwater (the conservative) |
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What book did the Republican candidate in 64 (Goldwater) wright that attracted many followers? |
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Conscience of a conservative |
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What was the only section of the country that Johnson lost in the 1964 election? |
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Name three major legislative achievements of the Great Society (Johnson Administration) |
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1. Medicare 2. Medicaid 3. Eradicated the quota laws of the 20’s 4. elementary and secondary education 5. public housing 6. crime prevention 7. housing |
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Who was the first black cabinet member? |
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What section of Los Angeles was infamous for its riots in 1965? |
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What did the Kerner commission say? |
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The reason for the riots was because of the lack of economic opportunity for blacks in American society. |
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What cabinet level position was creates in the Johnson administration? |
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The department of housing and urban development and the Department of transportation |
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What coalition managed to get the Civil Rights act of 1964 passed? |
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Republicans and northern democrats |
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Who was the first Black associate Justice of the Supreme Court? |
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What two political figures were assassinated in 1968? |
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Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Who was the most successful third party candidate in 1968 |
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Name three Supreme Court decisions regarding the rights of the accused and what each one said |
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1. Gideon vs. Wainwright - the accused has a right to a lawyer evenif he cannot afford it 2. Escobedo vs. Illinois - the accused has the right to remain silent until a lawyer is present 3. Miranda vs. Arizona - the accused has a right to a lawyer even during questioning by the police (also the police must inform the accused of his rights) |
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Name five black civil rights leaders and one achievement or group they are associated with |
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1. Martin Luthar King - founded SCLC, Montgomery bus boycott 2. WEB Du Bois - NAACP 3. Booker T Washington - Atlanta address 4. Thurgood Marshall - first supree court Black 5. Chisolm - first Black woman in house of Reps Bond - Part of SNCC |
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Name four specific areas that civil rights acts addressed |
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1. Education 2. Voting 3. Labor/Employment 4. Public Segregation |
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What did the 1962 Trade Expansion Act give the president power to do? |
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it gave the president unprecedented authority to negotiate the reduction of tariff rates in order to increase trade |
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Who was the founder of NOW |
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What area of the world did the Immigration Act of 1965 favor |
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Asia, Central America, and South America |
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What do the following stand for: SNCC, SCLC, CORE, and what did they all have in common |
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SNCC - Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference CORE - Congress of Racial Equality - All organizations for the Civil Rights Movement |
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What was Nixon’s response to inflation pressures |
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Price Freeze/ Price Controls |
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Name two leading authors of the “beat” generation |
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What woman led the fight against the amendment proposal |
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What was the Decision of the Bakke Case? |
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College Admission cannot only take Race into account |
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What cabinet level posts were created in the Carter administration |
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The Department of Energy and the Department of Education |
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Name four presidents and what they did to advance civil rights |
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1. Truman - Desegregated the Army 2. Eisenhower - First to use federal troops to protect Black rights 3. LBJ - Passed the voting rights act, the civil rights act of 1964 and the 14th amendment (poll tax) 4. Kennedy - CEEO |
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What was the main domestic focus of politics from 1974 to 1975 |
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What was Jimmy Carter’s controversial decision relating to the ended Vietnam War |
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He pardoned the draft dodgers |
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What did Reagan do with the grain Embargo against the Soviet Union? |
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Who twice ran for president against Eisenhower? |
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What were several economic results of the baby boom? |
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More emphasis on children and more education… |
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What key Demographic change occurred during the 1950s? |
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Whites started moving to suburbs while blacks moved to the cities |
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Who were the contestants for president in the election of 1960? |
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What were two accomplishments of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
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No gender discrimination and no race discrimination |
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Name 4 "Minority" groups and their locations where they actively pursued civil rights |
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1. Blacks - mainly in the south 2. Woman - everywhere 3. Indians - in their reservations and outside of them 4. Hispanics - everywhere |
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Who was the leader of the Black Muslims? What did he write? |
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Elijah Muhammad - how to eat to live and the fall of America |
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Name two Extreme Radical blacks and their groups |
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1. Elijah Muhammad - Nation of Islam 2. Carmichael- SNCC |
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What was the document of the SDS? |
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Who wrote The Power Elite? |
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what were called "beatnicks" in the 50s were not called what? |
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What were three musical artists who gave lyrics to the counterculture? |
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1. Bob Dylan 2. Bob Marley 3. The Grateful Dead |
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who won the election of 1968? |
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What third party candidate actually won electoral votes and why? |
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Wallace because everyone was getting tired of the anti war protests desegregation and the riots |
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Stagnation and Inflation during Nixon's time |
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What president suspended the convertibility of dollars to gold? |
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What presidential administration created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupation Safety and Health Administration? |
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Aid to Families with Dependent children - provided financial assistance to families with low or no income |
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Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - trained and gave people jobs |
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What did Nixon call those Americans that did not protest out in the streets? |
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Whom did Nixon appoint as Chief justice? |
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Was Burger more conservative or more liberal than his predecessor? |
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What was Swan Vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg about and what was its decision? |
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decided that busing is legal and a good way to interrogate all schools and give everyone equal educations opportunities despite geographical locations |
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What was NY Times vs. U.S. about and what was its decision? |
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NY times can print the pentagon papers and give government secrets to the public without the censure of the government because the first amendment protects their rights |
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What did U.S Vs. Nixon say the limitations of executive privilege were? |
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Executive privilege doesn’t apply to covering up criminal activity |
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What unique situation in American history arose with Ford as president and Rockefeller as Vice-President? |
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Gerald Ford was the first president not to be elected either vice president or president because Agnew resigned and then Ford chose Rockefeller as his VP |
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Who defeated ford in the election of 1976? |
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What college campus saw shootings by National Guard troops of rioters who were throwing rocks? |
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What Vice President had to resign from office? |
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who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court? |
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