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1
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When was prohibition introduced?

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1920

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When were Sacco and Vanzetti executed?

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1927

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When was first talking film released?

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1927

Jazz singer

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When was Wall Street crash?

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1929

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When did Roosevelt defeat Hoover?

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1932

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When was Pearl Harbor attacked?

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1941

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What does Pearl Harbor attack signify?

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Start of WW2

USA declares war on Japan

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Who takes over from President Roosevelt?

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Vice President Harry Truman

1945

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Who becomes president in 1952?

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Dwight Eisenhower

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After which case in 1954 did racial segregation in schools become illegal?

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Brown vs Board of education of Topeka

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When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat ?

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1955

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When does JFK become president?

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1960

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Who delivered I have a dream speech in 1963?

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Martin Luther King

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14
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Who succeeded JFK after his assassination?

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Lyndon B Johnson

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What was banned in Civil rights Act 1964?

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Discrimination in jobs, voting, housing

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When was conflict in Vietnam?

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1964

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17
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What court case ruled that women have a right to abortion?

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Roe vs Wade

1973

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What are 2 US political parties?

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Democratic

Republican

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19
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Which party had laissez faire policy?

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Republican

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What does laissez faire mean?

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Leaving things to take own course

Without interfering

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Which is more ordinary people’s party?

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Democratic
Helps most vulnerable (poor and elderly)
More liberal and accept change

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22
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When did new immigrants start arriving into America?

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1850

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23
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Where did first immigrants come from?

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Southern Europe
Ireland
China
Japan

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24
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When did slavery end?

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1865

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25
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Which country lent money to UK in WW1?

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USA

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What decade were electrical gadgets introduced?

Hoover, radio, fridge, telephone

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1920s

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27
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The growth of which industry boosted US economy?

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Motor/car making

Ford

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28
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What type of production method did motor industry use?

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Mass production

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29
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Describe hire purchase plans

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Buy now play later

Small instalments

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30
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How were cars at ford factory made cheaper and quicker?

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Assembly line
Factory
Mass production

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What was impact of the boom on motor industry?

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More car owners
Did not have to live near offices/factories

Negative
Traffic jams
Accidents
Pollution

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32
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How does stock market work?

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Money from investors
Investors own a share of the company (share holders)
Make money by selling them on
Millions of ordinary Americans owned share not just rich

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33
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Why did farmers become poorer?

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Machinery
Produced more food to sell
Price of food fell

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34
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Why were African-Americans so poor?

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Farm labourers
Low paid jobs
Rented house from land owners

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35
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Why called roaring twenties?

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Loud music
Wild parties
New entertainment
Jazz, Charleston
Cinema
Sports stars celebrities - golf, baseball
Radio/ newspapers brought sport to mass audience

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36
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Famous actors of 1920s

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Charlie Chaplin
Rudolf Valentino
Clara Bow

37
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What is a flapper?

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Independent fashionable young women
Liberal attitudes
Shocked. Traditional members of society

38
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What changes for women during WW1

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Women took over male jobs while away fighting
Money gave them independence
Right to vote

Pre war
Wear sensible clothing
No sport

39
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What is prohibition?

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Nationwide ban on production, importing and sale of alcohol

1920-1933

40
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What did some politicians believe about prohibition?

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A better, healthier place without alcohol

41
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What did the church believe alcohol caused?

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Violence
Poverty
Addiction
Debt

42
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what is a speakeasy?

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Illegal bar
Sold bootleg alcohol (smuggled by sea)
Hidden in cellars
Sold moonshine (home made spirit)

43
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What is moonshine?

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Home made spirits

44
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How else did gangs make money?

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Fixing horse and dog racing
Brothels
Racketeering (pay too stop smashing premises)

45
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Name a famous organised crime leader?

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Al Capone

Scar face

46
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Reasons to move to USA

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Europe overcrowded, land expensive
Plenty of jobs - cars, steel, electrical manufacture
US land cheap, fertile
American dream - all created equal
Workers paid more
47
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What was American dream?

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All men created equal

Everyone has right to achieve success

48
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How did US try to cut immigration?

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Literacy act if could not read
Immigration quota Law to limit
National origins act

49
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What was KKK

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Klu Klux Clan
Racist terror group
Aim white supremacy over blacks
Beaten up so not vote

50
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Why was KKK popular?

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Birth of nation film
Attracted decent citizens
Cleaned up society

51
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What is red scare?

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Palmer raids - suicide bomber

Communists (red) arrested

52
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

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Italian immigrants
Charged with robbery and murder
No evidence
Blamed as seen as enemy 
Didn’t understand as poor English
53
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What is Black Thursday?

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Stock exchange crash
5x more shares a sold
Prices drop
1929
People had borrowed money to buy shares 
Couldn’t pay back
Banks went bust
54
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Describe 2 problems in US economy that contributed to Wall Street Crash?

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Inequality of wealth
Overproduction
Foreign taxes
Concern over low profit
Panic selling of shares
55
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What is impact of Great Depression on people?

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Factories close
Banks fail
High unemployment

56
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What are hobos and Hoovervilles?

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Unemployed, travelling looking for work
Live on streets in shacks
Soup kitchens

57
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What was Pre of Hoover’s response?

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Lend money
Dam building provided jobs

Overcome problems with hard work

58
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Which president introduced laissez faire?

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Hoover

59
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What were Roosevelt’s 3 Rs ?

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Relief - help for old and ill
Recovery - provide jobs
Reform - to prevent another depression

60
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Why did voters like Roosevelt?

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Disabled from polio

Succeeded despite disability

61
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Why was there opposition for New Deal

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High taxes for rich
More rights for workers
Roosevelt dictator government too powerful

62
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Who did well out of new deal?

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Women less money than men
Fair labour wages for workers
Farm poverty

African Americans and Indians more jobs and buy land

63
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Why did car workers strike>?

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Better wages and conditions

64
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What. Is popular culture?

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Music, films, TV, books

Particular time in history

65
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Name a jazz singer

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Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Billie Holliday
Glenn miller
Judy Garland
Bing Crosby
66
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Name a popular film of 1930s

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Frankenstein
42nd street
Gone with the wind
Dracula

67
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What is isolationism?

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After WW1

Kept out of affairs other countries

68
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What is cash aND CARRY PLAN?

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USsold weapons to Uk and France
Jobs during rising unemployment

Lend lease
US lend weapons to UK

69
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What is consumerism?

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Luxury goods produced at affordable prices
Fridges, ovens, hoovers, cars

Buy now pay later

Malls outskirts of towns

70
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What was Truman’s fair deal?

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Raised minimum wage
Affordable homes
Each generation more successful

Women back to housewives, female jobs
Latest gadgets - living the dream

71
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Name a teenage icon

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James Dean
Marlon Brando
Elvis Presley

72
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What is McCarthyism?

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Accused hundreds of people being communist

73
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What is rock and roll generation?

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Wealthy teenagers
Money on cars, music, fashion, alcohol
Gangs
Car races
Grease
Rebellion
74
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Define civil rights movement

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Equal opportunities
Access to employment, housing, education
Free of racial discrimination
African Americans equal to whites

75
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What case helped end racial segregation in schools?

A

Brown vs Board of education of Topeka
1954
Daughter to attend whites only school
Linda brown

76
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What was Montgomery bus boycott?

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1955
Rosa Parks
African American
Refused to move from whites only section
Boycott of all buses 
Led by martin Luther king
77
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What was importance of Little Rock case?

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9 blacks tried to attend white school
Took governor to court and won
Pupils had right to go to school

78
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What are freedom writers?

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Blacks sitting next to whites on white only sections on buses

79
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When were interracial marriages legalised?

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1967

80
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Who was most famous member of black Muslims?

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Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Killed at a meeting 1965

81
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Which party rejected King’s non violent ideas?

A

Black panther party

Blacks needed to protect themselves using violence if necessary

82
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Who had a new frontier?

A

JFK

83
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Who had a great society?

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President Johnson

84
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What was aim of new frontier?

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Eliminate poverty
Equality
Improve education
Fight unemployment

85
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What was aim of great society?

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Operation head start
Money to schools
Help school leavers to get jobs
Increased wages 
Air and water quality acts
Medicare healthcare for elderly
86
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What year could girls study same subjects as boys?

A

1972

87
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Which group disrupted Miss world contest?

A

Women’s liberation

88
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Which case helped legalise abortion?

A

Roe vs Wade

1973

89
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What is ERA?

A

Equal Rights amendment

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