Dates

Question 1

Literacy test and Immigration quotas

Answer 1

1917 and 1921 & 1924

Question 2

Kkk

Answer 2

Revived in 1915, 4.5million members by 1924.

Question 3

Women got the vote

Answer 3

1920

Question 4

Prohibition

Answer 4

1920-1933

Question 5

St Valentine’s Day Massacre

Answer 5

1929

Question 6

Walk Street Crash

Answer 6

October 1929

Question 7

Bonus Army

Answer 7

1932

Question 8

Lend Lease

Answer 8

1941

Question 9

Hawley Smoot Tarrif

Answer 9

1930

Question 10

Hoover Dam

Answer 10

1931

Question 11

Emergency Relief Act

Answer 11

1932, $300million.

Question 12

March on Washington:

Answer 12

1963. 
250,000 people. 
MLK. 
Pressure Kennedy into civil rights bill. 
The right to vote.

Question 13

Greensboro sit ins:

Answer 13

1960.

By end of year lunch counters had been desegregated in 126 cities.

Question 14

Brown v Board.

Answer 14

1954. NAACP.
      Linda Brown.
      Warren ordered integrated schools.

Question 15

Little Rock.

Answer 15

1957.

NAACP.

Question 16

Freedom rides.

Answer 16

1961. Birmingham.
      200 arrested.
      JFK had to step in.

Question 17

Selma.

Answer 17

1965. Voting rights march organised by MLK.
      Authorities banned it, racist sheriff Jim Clark.
      600 went ahead, brutally attacked, media coverage.
      King led token march.

Question 18

Voting Rights Act.

Answer 18

1965. 
Johnson. 
Govt. agents inspect voting, ended literacy tests. 
5 major cities had black mayors. 
Clark lost his job.

Question 19

Montgomery bus boycott.

Answer 19

1955-56. 
MIA MLK. Rosa Parks. 
Bus company lost 65% income. 
1956 bus segregation illegal. 
King arrested twice.

Question 20

Assassination of Martin Luther King.

Answer 20

1968.

Question 21

SNCC more radical in what year?

Answer 21

1966, Carmicheal.

Question 22

Race Riots.

Answer 22

1965-1967.

Poor relations between police and African Americans.

Question 23

NOW.

Answer 23

1966.

Question 24

Equal Pay Act:

Equal Rights Amendment Act:

Answer 24

1963-equal pay.

1972-exceptions removed.

Question 25

Roe v Wade.

Answer 25

1973.

Question 26

Supreme Court Ruling on Equal Rights.

Answer 26

1972 (contraception legally available to unmarried.)

Question 27

Kennedy's reforms.

Answer 27

1960.

Question 28

Great Society-Johnson's reforms.

Answer 28

Economic Opportunity Act 1964. Medicare and Medicaid 1965. The Development Act 1965.

Question 29

First and second Civil Rights Act.

Answer 29

1. 1964. Johnson-illegal for govt. to discriminate in areas such as housing and employment. 2. 1968. Housing could not be sold or rented on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex.

Question 30

What year did Hoover become president?

Answer 30

1929.