Last 8th!

Question 1

What do we call the change that happened in the American population in the late 1940s and 1950s

Answer 1

Baby boom

Question 2

What law was passed after world war 2 to help provide educational and other benefits to American soilders

Answer 2

GI Bill of rights

Question 3

What are he effects of building the Interstate high way system

Answer 3

Helped people move to the suburbs

Supported the growth of the American auto industry

Question 4

Why did people move to the suburbs

Answer 4

Economic growth and prosperity

Question 5

Who is credited with popularizing (building) the suburbs

Answer 5

Levitt

Levittown

Question 6

What do we call the false accusations of communism in the late 1950s

Answer 6

McCarthyism

Question 7

What is an example of McCarthyism

Answer 7

Rosenberg Trials
Alger Hiss
Hollywood ten

Question 8

Who was the first person to step on the moon

Answer 8

Neil Armstrong

Question 9

Who assassinated John F Kennedy

Answer 9

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 10

What investigated the assassination of JFK

Answer 10

Warren commission

Question 11

What was the name of president Johnson’s domestic plan to improve the US with government sponsored social programs?

Answer 11

Great society

Question 12

Why did president Nixon have to resign?

Answer 12

Cover up of a watergate breakin

Question 13

What would have happened if Nixon did not resign

Answer 13

He would have been impeached

Question 14

What happened to Nixon after he resigned?

Answer 14

He was pardoned by Pres Ford

Question 15

What was Nixon required to turn over as evidence against him?

Answer 15

Tapes of conversations in the Oval Office

Question 16

What was the problem with Nixon’s evidence?

Answer 16

There was 18 minutes missing in the type

Question 17

What was the goal of the civil rights movement in the 1950s-1960s?

Answer 17

To end racial segregation

Question 18

What was the method used by MLK jr in the civil rights movement?

Answer 18

Civil Disobedience

Question 19

What are examples of civil disobedience?

Answer 19

Sit in
Marches
Boycott
Freedom rides

Question 20

What is Rosa parks known for?

Answer 20

Refusing to give up her seat on the bus

Question 21

What happened after rose parks protest?

Answer 21

Montgomery, bus boycott

Question 22

What Supreme Court case declared “separate but equal”to be unconstitutional

Answer 22

Brown vs Board of education

Question 23

What does brown vs board of education mean?

Answer 23

Segregation is illegal and needs to be stopped

Question 24

What are examples of how the US desegregated?

Answer 24

Any public place like schools
Neighborhooods (eventually)
Jackie Robinson in baseball

Question 25

Which civil rights leader changed his views after visiting Mecca on a religious pilgrimage?

Answer 25

Malcolm X

Question 26

What changes have been brought about by the civil rights movement?

Answer 26

Desegregated schools/ public places More voting ( no literacy tests, or poll taxes) Increase in black politicians

Question 27

What is affirmative action

Answer 27

Policy designed to provide equal opportunities for minorities

Question 28

What has been the goal of the Native Americans Indian movement since 1960?

Answer 28

Secure retire of, or just compensation for, lands taken from them by the government

Question 29

What book is credited with starting the Feminist movement of the 1960s and 70s?

Answer 29

Famine Mystique

Question 30

Who wrote Femine Mystique

Answer 30

Betty Friedan

Question 31

What law requires schools to support female athletics as much as male athletics?

Answer 31

Title IX

Question 32

Which Supreme Court case legalized abortions in the US

Answer 32

Roe vs Wade

Question 33

Who are the people who rebelled against conformity in the 1950s?

Answer 33

Beatniks

Question 34

Who were the people that rebelled in the 1960s?

Answer 34

Hippies

Question 35

What was the name of Nixon’s plan to reduce the size of the federal government?

Answer 35

New Federalism

Question 36

What was the problem with the 2000 election?

Answer 36

Problem with the counting votes in FLA and Supreme Court decided a winner

Question 37

What famous book promoted the government to put regulations on companies to improve pollution concerns?

Answer 37

Silent Spring

Question 38

How has the US economy changed since the 1960s?

Answer 38

Jobs have shifted from manufacturing (factory) to service industries. Most products sold in the US are manufactured in foreign countries.

Question 39

How has the immigration population changed since the 1980s?

Answer 39

Increase Hispanic (Spanish speaking) and Asian/Pacific people