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What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Amendment that guarantees national women's suffrage.
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What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" in public education is inherently unequal.
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What is Wounded Knee?
This battle (or massacre) officially ended the Indian Wars in 1890.
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Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
President who brought America the New Deal.
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Who is Bill Clinton?
The president who claimed to be a "new" kind of Democrat and won the election of 1992 and left a surplus on the budget.
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What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
In the 1970s and 80s, women fought for the passage of this amendment to the Constitution. It didn't pass.
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What is the Double V campaign?
The Florida NAACP started this campaign during World War II to fight fascism abroad and racism at home.
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What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This 1887 law broke up the reservations and offered individual Indians 160 acres to farm.
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What were relief, recovery, and reform?
The three goals of the New Deal.
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What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
This law was passed after 9-11 as part of the War on Terror and limited due process and the right to privacy in the name of national security.
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What is the National Women's Party (NWP)?
Members of this women's rights organization picketed the White House and engaged in hunger strikes.
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Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas.
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What is the Homestead Act?
This 1862 law led to a flood of white immigration onto Indian lands in the West.
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What was the Great Society?
The name of Johnson's program to extend the work of the New Deal.
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Who is Al-Qaeda?
This group claimed responsibility for the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 under the leadership of Osama bin Laden.
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What is Title IX?
Law that guarantees equal access and opportunity for females in public education.
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Who were the Black Panthers?
Militant organization that tried to protect African American youth from police brutality; set up breakfast programs and health centers in ghetto neighborhoods; and encouraged a mindset of Black Power.
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What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
This militant Indian group in the 1960s occupied Alcatraz and the Lakota reservation at Wounded Knee.
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What is Medicare/Medicaid?
Medical program enacted by Johnson and expanded by Reagan. Reagan had previously called it "socialist"
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What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Presidential scandal where the U.S. sold arms to Iran and used the funds to illegally fund Nicaraguan rebels.
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What is The Feminine Mystique?
1950s book by Betty Friedan that encouraged women to question their role as homemakers and caretakers.
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Who was A. Philip Randolph?
This African American leader was the first to threaten a March on Washington, but FDR gave in to his demands for integrated federal employment.
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What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
This government agency managed Indian reservations, but corrupt officials often sold goods meant for the reservations to white settlers.
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Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
President who offered America a Square Deal along with the three C's.
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What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
The press called Reagan's defense policy "Star Wars" but this is its real name.
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