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When was Hoover president?

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1929 - 1933

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When was Roosevelt president

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1933 - 1945

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When was Truman president

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1945 - 1953

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When was Eisenhower president

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1953 - 1961

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5
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When was Kennedy president

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1961 - 1963

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When was LBJ president

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1963 - 1969

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When was Nixon president

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1969 - 1974

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8
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When was Ford president

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1974 - 1977

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9
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When was Carter president

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1977 - 1981

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10
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When was Reagan president

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1981 - 1989

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11
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When was Bush senior president

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1989 - 1993

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12
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When was Clinton president

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1993 - 2000

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13
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When was the Wall Street crash

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24th October 1929

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14
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Who was president when the Wall Street crash happened

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Hoover

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15
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How many terms did Roosevelt serve

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4 terms

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16
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What was Roosevelt’s plan for recovery called

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The New Deal

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17
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What were the aims of the new deal

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3 R’s:
Relief
Recovery
Reform

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18
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Name the Alphabet agencies

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AAA - agricultural adjustment act

TVA - Tennessee Valley authority

CCC - civilian conservation corps

NRA - national recovery administration

FERA - federal emergency relief administration

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19
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What did the AAA do

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Government paid farmers to produce less

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20
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What did the TVA do

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Gave money to develop poor agricultural regions

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21
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What did the CCC do

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Gave jobs to young unemployed men

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22
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What did the NRA do

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Tried to improve workers’ pay and conditions

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What was FERA

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A temporary measure providing $500 million for relief

24
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When was the Second New Deal

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1935

25
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What did the Second New Deal do

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Set up more agencies based on Reform

26
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What were the new agencies set up under the Second New Deal

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WPA - works progress administration

Wagner Act - national labour relations act

Fair Labours Standards Act

Social Security Act

27
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What did the WPA do

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Funded building programmes e.g. schools, hospitals etc.

28
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What was the Wagner Act

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Upheld right of workers to organise and enter into collective bargaining - helped workers and led to increase in Union membership

29
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What was the Fair Labour Standards Act

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Established a minimum wage and maximum hours

30
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What was the Social Security Act

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Gave benefits out to elderly, orphaned and those injured at work, and unemployment benefits

31
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What is McCarthyism

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A campaign to root out and expose Communists living in the USA

32
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What was the name of Kennedy’s programme of domestic reform

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The New Frontier

33
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What was the name of LBJ’s programme of domestic reform

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Great Society

34
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How much did Kennedy spend on public works

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$900 million

35
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In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed

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1965

36
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What did LBJ increase the minimum wage to

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$1.40

37
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Who beat Nixon in the 1960 election

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JFK

38
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What was the full name of CREEP

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Committe to Re-elect the President

39
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What was set up to implement the Civil Rights Act

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Equal Opportunities Commission

40
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What Act of 1966 continued JFK’s policy of urban renewal

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Model Cities Act

41
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What were the African Americans who enlisted in the US army in WW2 known as

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Jim Crow Army

42
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What was the name of the airmen who won great acclaim acting as fighting escorts for US bombers

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Tuskegee airmen

43
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By the end of 1945 how many black pilots had been trained in the US air force

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600

44
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Which president desegregated the armed forces and what year

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Truman 1948

45
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During WW2 membership of the NAACP grew from 50,000 to how many

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450,000

46
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What was the name of the 1886 case the created sperate but equal doctrine

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Plessy vs. Fergusson

47
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Which organisation took the case of Linda Brown to the Supreme court in 1954

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NAACP

48
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What was the name of the document signed by over 100 southern congressmen after Brown vs. Topeka to oppose desegregation

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Southern Manefesto

49
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What year were the events of Little rock

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1957

50
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Which president sent 320 federal marshals to escort James Meredith to the Mississippi university in 1962

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JFK

51
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What group lead by MLK that organised the Montgomery bus boycott

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MIA

52
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Which group organised the freedom Rides of 1961

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CORE

Congress of Racial Equality

53
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On which city did MLK focus his civil right activities in 1963

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Birmingham, Alabama

54
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What was the name of the police chief in Birmingham Alabama during MLK’s marches

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Bull Connor

55
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Which month and year did the march on Washington take place

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August 1963

56
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Which group did Malcolm X increase membership to about 100,000 between 1952 and 1964

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NOI

Nation Of Islam

57
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Which year was the civil rights act passed

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1964

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