1905 - 1988

Question 1

1905

Answer 1

Lochner v. New York; Muskogee Convention

Question 2

1909

Answer 2

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) Founded.

Question 3

1911

Answer 3

Society of American Indians established.

Question 4

1914

Answer 4

Clayton Anti-trust Act

Question 5

1917

Answer 5

Margaret Sanger establishes the first US birth control clinic.

Question 6

1919

Answer 6

19th amendment giving women the vote

Question 7

1924

Answer 7

Indian Citizenship Act

Question 8

1925

Answer 8

Brotherhood of sleeping car porters and maids established

Question 9

1933

Answer 9

New Deal; Frances Perkins becomes the first woman in the presidential cabinet.

Question 10

1934

Answer 10

Indian Reorganisation (Wheeler-Howard) Act.

Question 11

1935

Answer 11

Wagner Act

Question 12

1937

Answer 12

Congress of Industrial Organisations

Question 13

1941

Answer 13

The USA enters the second world war

Question 14

1942

Answer 14

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded.

Question 15

1944

Answer 15

National Congress of American Indians

Question 16

1947

Answer 16

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 17

1948

Answer 17

Disintegration of the armed forces

Question 18

1953

Answer 18

Policy of termination introduced

Question 19

1954

Answer 19

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 20

1955

Answer 20

Merger of AFL and CIO

Question 21

1957

Answer 21

Montgomery bus boycott; number of men and women voting was equal.

Question 22

1963

Answer 22

Equal Pay Act; Betty Friedman’s The Feminine Mystique published.

Question 23

1964

Answer 23

Civil Rights Act

Question 24

1966

Answer 24

Black Panthers formed; National Organisation for Women (NOW) founded.

Question 25

1968

Answer 25

American Indian Movement (AIM) established

Question 26

1969

Answer 26

Siege of Alcatraz

Question 27

1970

Answer 27

Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Question 28

1972

Answer 28

The Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress, never ratified.

Question 29

1973

Answer 29

Roe v. Wade

Question 30

1974

Answer 30

Oneida v. Oneida and Madison Counties

Question 31

1975

Answer 31

Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

Question 32

1981

Answer 32

PATCO strike

Question 33

1984

Answer 33

Jesse Jackson becomes democratic presidential candidate; Geraldine Ferraro is first woman vice-president candidate

Question 34

1988

Answer 34

Jesse Jackson's second campaign to be presidential candidate.