Key Dates And Knowledge

Question 1

When was Hoover president?

Answer 1

1929 - 1933

Question 2

When was Roosevelt president

Answer 2

1933 - 1945

Question 3

When was Truman president

Answer 3

1945 - 1953

Question 4

When was Eisenhower president

Answer 4

1953 - 1961

Question 5

When was Kennedy president

Answer 5

1961 - 1963

Question 6

When was LBJ president

Answer 6

1963 - 1969

Question 7

When was Nixon president

Answer 7

1969 - 1974

Question 8

When was Ford president

Answer 8

1974 - 1977

Question 9

When was Carter president

Answer 9

1977 - 1981

Question 10

When was Reagan president

Answer 10

1981 - 1989

Question 11

When was Bush senior president

Answer 11

1989 - 1993

Question 12

When was Clinton president

Answer 12

1993 - 2000

Question 13

When was the Wall Street crash

Answer 13

24th October 1929

Question 14

Who was president when the Wall Street crash happened

Answer 14

Hoover

Question 15

How many terms did Roosevelt serve

Answer 15

4 terms

Question 16

What was Roosevelt’s plan for recovery called

Answer 16

The New Deal

Question 17

What were the aims of the new deal

Answer 17

3 R’s:
Relief
Recovery
Reform

Question 18

Name the Alphabet agencies

Answer 18

AAA - agricultural adjustment act

TVA - Tennessee Valley authority

CCC - civilian conservation corps

NRA - national recovery administration

FERA - federal emergency relief administration

Question 19

What did the AAA do

Answer 19

Government paid farmers to produce less

Question 20

What did the TVA do

Answer 20

Gave money to develop poor agricultural regions

Question 21

What did the CCC do

Answer 21

Gave jobs to young unemployed men

Question 22

What did the NRA do

Answer 22

Tried to improve workers’ pay and conditions

Question 23

What was FERA

Answer 23

A temporary measure providing $500 million for relief

Question 24

When was the Second New Deal

Answer 24

1935

Question 25

What did the Second New Deal do

Answer 25

Set up more agencies based on Reform

Question 26

What were the new agencies set up under the Second New Deal

Answer 26

WPA - works progress administration Wagner Act - national labour relations act Fair Labours Standards Act Social Security Act

Question 27

What did the WPA do

Answer 27

Funded building programmes e.g. schools, hospitals etc.

Question 28

What was the Wagner Act

Answer 28

Upheld right of workers to organise and enter into collective bargaining - helped workers and led to increase in Union membership

Question 29

What was the Fair Labour Standards Act

Answer 29

Established a minimum wage and maximum hours

Question 30

What was the Social Security Act

Answer 30

Gave benefits out to elderly, orphaned and those injured at work, and unemployment benefits

Question 31

What is McCarthyism

Answer 31

A campaign to root out and expose Communists living in the USA

Question 32

What was the name of Kennedy's programme of domestic reform

Answer 32

The New Frontier

Question 33

What was the name of LBJ's programme of domestic reform

Answer 33

Great Society

Question 34

How much did Kennedy spend on public works

Answer 34

$900 million

Question 35

In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed

Answer 35

1965

Question 36

What did LBJ increase the minimum wage to

Answer 36

$1.40

Question 37

Who beat Nixon in the 1960 election

Answer 37

JFK

Question 38

What was the full name of CREEP

Answer 38

Committe to Re-elect the President

Question 39

What was set up to implement the Civil Rights Act

Answer 39

Equal Opportunities Commission

Question 40

What Act of 1966 continued JFK's policy of urban renewal

Answer 40

Model Cities Act

Question 41

What were the African Americans who enlisted in the US army in WW2 known as

Answer 41

Jim Crow Army

Question 42

What was the name of the airmen who won great acclaim acting as fighting escorts for US bombers

Answer 42

Tuskegee airmen

Question 43

By the end of 1945 how many black pilots had been trained in the US air force

Answer 43

600

Question 44

Which president desegregated the armed forces and what year

Answer 44

Truman 1948

Question 45

During WW2 membership of the NAACP grew from 50,000 to how many

Answer 45

450,000

Question 46

What was the name of the 1886 case the created sperate but equal doctrine

Answer 46

Plessy vs. Fergusson

Question 47

Which organisation took the case of Linda Brown to the Supreme court in 1954

Answer 47

NAACP

Question 48

What was the name of the document signed by over 100 southern congressmen after Brown vs. Topeka to oppose desegregation

Answer 48

Southern Manefesto

Question 49

What year were the events of Little rock

Answer 49

1957

Question 50

Which president sent 320 federal marshals to escort James Meredith to the Mississippi university in 1962

Answer 50

JFK

Question 51

What group lead by MLK that organised the Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 51

MIA

Question 52

Which group organised the freedom Rides of 1961

Answer 52

CORE | Congress of Racial Equality

Question 53

On which city did MLK focus his civil right activities in 1963

Answer 53

Birmingham, Alabama

Question 54

What was the name of the police chief in Birmingham Alabama during MLK's marches

Answer 54

Bull Connor

Question 55

Which month and year did the march on Washington take place

Answer 55

August 1963

Question 56

Which group did Malcolm X increase membership to about 100,000 between 1952 and 1964

Answer 56

NOI | Nation Of Islam

Question 57

Which year was the civil rights act passed

Answer 57

1964