2ND TERM

Question 1

Motorbiker beaten by cops in the 90s?

Answer 1

Rodney King
Uprising, April 29 1992

King was videotaped during arrest - violent beating after a high-speed car chase

Riot of thousands of African-Americans

widespread looting, assault, arson, occasional murder

(53 dead)

Question 2

Trump’s achievements

Answer 2

• takeover of republicans
• supreme court nominations, judge’s appointments
• tax reform
• Paris Agreement Withdrawal
• Iran Nuclear Deal Withdrawal
• Kim Jong Un Summits
• Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) NOT ABOLISHED

Question 3

Picture of an elephant

Answer 3

Republican Party/Grand Old Party

Question 4

Three branches of government

Answer 4

Legislative, executive, judicial

Question 5

NAACP

Answer 5

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
1909
many black and white members, funding = rich white sympathizers
W.E.N. DuBois - leading black member
- - - Led legal challenges to segregation and attempted to have a Federal anti-lynching law passed (unsuccessfully)

Question 6

Stonewall Riots

Answer 6

the start of LGBT protests

Question 7

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 7

active since 1955

Civil Rights Movement, “I have a dream” speech

first leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference - SCLC 1957
—organizing “non-violent” resistance to segregation across the South

Montgomery Bus Boycott - selected to lead the boycott committee
30,000 Black citizens of Montgomery, AL organized a 381-day boycott

assassinated April 4 1968

Question 8

How is one generation called when there was increase in child birth

Answer 8

baby boomers

Question 9

Quote speech - patchwork heritage, Christians, Muslims Jews and non-believers -

Answer 9

Barrack Obama

Question 10

Main events of 1970s

Answer 10

Richard “Watergate” Nixon visits China 1972
inflation and gas shortages
the watergate scandal
- watergate = general term for political scandals during Nixon’s presidency
- 5 men breaking into Democratic National Committee HQ at watergate hotel complex 1972 -> Nixon’s resignation after trying to cover it up 1974

Question 11

Main events of 1960s

Answer 11

The Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam War
The Youth Rebellion
Violence
Sexual Revolution

Some notable Events
Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962)
King’s “I have a Dream Speech” (August 28, 1963)
The Kennedy assassination (November 22, 1963)
Neil Armstrong’s landing on the Moon
The Berkeley & Columbia student uprising
The Woodstock Festival
The Tet Offensive

Question 12

Main events of 1950s

Answer 12

Changes in the economy
Demographic Shifts
Popular Culture
Domestic Policy
Foreign Policy

BABY BOOM
RISE OF TV CULTURE

Question 13

Roe vs Wade

Answer 13

1973
The right to privacy protected a woman’s decision to have an abortion
A system of trimesters that attempted to balance the state’s legitimate interests against the abortion right.

2022 - Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Roe v. Wade overturned)

Question 14

Matching - African American

Answer 14

sit-ins
- to protest segregation in eating facilities
- met with violence and arrests
-> student-led civil rights movement
SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 15

Matching - Women

Answer 15

Women’s Liberation, Sexual Revolution
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique 1963
1972 - ERA Equal Rights Amendment

Question 16

Matching - Native Americans

Answer 16

Occupation of Alcatraz (1969-1971)
- 80 activists occupy abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island
- supplied by supporters
- 19 months
- land reclaimed by right of discovery - Alcatraz Proclamation

Question 17

Matching - Hispanic/Latinx

Answer 17

United Farm Workers 1962 - CESAR CHAVES

agitated for better conditions and pay, non-violent methods (hunger strikes)
boycotts of produce: lettuce, table grapes

Question 18

Imagine of pigs - What minority was it poking fun at?

Answer 18

Chinese

Question 19

Matching - Wounded knee massacre

Answer 19

1890

• Cavalry surrounded by a band of Ghost Dancers (Natives) - demanded their weapons
• a fight broke out, shots fired
• hundreds of Lakota killed

Question 20

Matching - New deal

Answer 20

1930s

Take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all, try something. - FDR

Government buildings, schools, parks, roads, bridges, various arts projects, performances, etc.

liberal middle-class whites, intellectuals
Small farmers in the Midwest
Urban political bosses & their machines
Blue cloar workers & labor unions
The ethnic vote & other minorities (e.g. Jews, Catholics, etc)
African Americans (new!)
The white South

Question 21

Matching - Alcatraz

Answer 21

1960s

Question 22

Matching - The Little Bighorn

Answer 22

1870s

Question 23

Trail of Tears

Answer 23

1830s

Andrew Jackson
forced displacement of native tribes

Question 24

American ideal - immigraants will assimilate:

Answer 24

a melting pot

The massive “Americanization” campaigns just before World War I produced the concept of America as a “melting pot”: in which cultural differences would be obliterated

Question 25

Eisenhower sent forces in 1957 to disperse mob in front of school - where?

Answer 25

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 26

Lone Native American on a horse sculpture - what it symbolizes

Answer 26

End of the trail by James Fraser image of discovery

Question 27

Which election was the closest in popular vote

Answer 27

Bush v Gore Popular Vote: 50,462,421 - 51,009,810

Question 28

What did Trump's and Bush's election have in common?

Answer 28

Both lost popular vote but epic gamer moment electoral college won them the election

Question 29

Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan on media - what did/didn't stand for?

Answer 29

He did say: Media as extensions of the human body and the senses, Medium is the message, The medium is the massage “All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the media work as environments.”

Question 30

Turning point in Vietnam war

Answer 30

Tet offensive

Question 31

What didn't happen during Obama

Answer 31

"mission accomplished" was by Bush after Iran

Question 32

Event that came closest to causing nuclear war between USA and USSR

Answer 32

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Question 33

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Answer 33

1954 Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - “Separate but equal” facilities are constitutional Unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” They violate “equal protection clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 34

US v. Nixon

Answer 34

President can't claim immunity or executive privilege

Question 35

Marbury v Madison

Answer 35

US court can strike down laws they deem unconstitutional

Question 36

Loving v Virginia

Answer 36

marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man, fundamental to our very existence and survival

Question 37

Bush v Gore

Answer 37

ended a state-wide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court This decision awarded Florida’s votes to Bush and granted him the victory

Question 38

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 38

“Separate but equal facilities” Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation, inplaces where they are liable to be brought into contact, do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race

Question 39

Worcester v Georgia

Answer 39

Native American territories cannot be regulated by the government and are separate entities

Question 40

Main reason for people immigrating to US

Answer 40

economic growth

Question 41

in the last 20 years, from which region came most immigrants to the US - Latin Am./Africa/South Asia/East Asia

Answer 41

Latin America

Question 42

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Answer 42

"...Vietnam from falling under the control of the Communists..." “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” assassinated Nov 22 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald Cuban Missile Crisis - diplomacy

Question 43

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Answer 43

1991 book by Susan Faludi presented evidence demonstrating the existence of a media-driven "backlash" against the feminist advances of 1970s US female oppression

Question 44

What do Catholics stand for?

Answer 44

unchanging doctrine, intolerance

Question 45

Who follows the Bible literally?

Answer 45

Fundamentalists

Question 46

What party does FOX news stand for?

Answer 46

Republicans

Question 47

States with Baptist religion as the dominant?

Answer 47

Texas, Arkansas basically the southern states Mississippi, Alabama, Loisiana

Question 48

Which affiliation religious is more prone to be democratic?

Answer 48

Christians of colour and unaffiliated

Question 49

Fill in - native American rights organization in 19th century that was created by Paiute

Answer 49

Ghost Dance Movement

Question 50

What was the television referred to?

Answer 50

Family heart

Question 51

The scripture: I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Is found on which monument

Answer 51

The Statue of Liberty

Question 52

Eisenhower's view on the economy

Answer 52

Laissez-faire attitude towards the economy

Question 53

The Great Society Legislation

Answer 53

Lyndon Baines Johnson legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, Public Broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education and his “War on Poverty”

Question 54

The 14th amendment bans all but:

Answer 54

Double jeopardy - this, because this is in the 5th Amendment Slavery Unreasonable Search and Seizure probably a sex discrimination

Question 55

Shortest period of time between a nomination to the Supreme Court and an election in U.S. history

Answer 55

Amy Coney Barrett

Question 56

Something about what is the constant problem that is being talked about in us

Answer 56

Gods image on money, Abortions >>>>Right to bear arms same sex marriages Stem cell research

Question 57

what didn't happen during George W. Bush

Answer 57

Osama Bin Laden assassination (that was Obama)