Potential questions

Question 1

Rodney King (90s)

Answer 1

the motorbike rider that was beaten by he cops

Question 2

Trump’s presidency - what did not happen during his presidency

Answer 2

he didn´t manage to overturn the affordable healthcare act (obamacare)

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 head person

Answer 5

Du Bois

Question 6

LGBT protests started with what

Answer 6

Stonewall riots

Question 7

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 7

Active since 1955, assassinated in 1968 the African American supporter, civil rights movement

Question 8

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

Answer 8

baby boom

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Obama

Question 10

Main events in 70’

Answer 10

• Richard “Watergate”
• Nixon visits China
• inflation and gas shortage

Question 11

Main events in 60’

Answer 11

Woodstock and Tet offensive
landing on the moon

Question 12

Main events in 50’

Answer 12

• baby boom
• rise of TV culture

Question 13

Roe vs Wade

Answer 13

• abortion allowed in first trimester

Question 14

Fight for civil rights matching

Answer 14

• African American - sit-ins
• Women - ERA, Equal Rights Amendment
• Native Americans - occupation of Alcatraz
• Hispanic - boycott grapes campaign

Question 15

Wounded knee massacre

Answer 15

1890s

Question 16

New Deal

Answer 16

1930s

Question 17

Alcatraz occupation

Answer 17

1960s

Question 18

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Answer 18

1870s

Question 19

Trail of Tears

Answer 19

1830s

Question 20

Trail of Broken Treaties

Answer 20

1970s

Question 21

melting pot

Answer 21

• american ideal, immigrants will assimilate

Question 22

Where did Eisenhower sent forces in 1957 to disperce mob in front of school?

Answer 22

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 23

Name of statue that is Lone Native American on a horse

Answer 23

End of the trail by James Fraser

Question 24

Which election was the closest in popular vote?

Answer 24

Bush vs Gore

Question 25

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

Answer 25

- both lost popular vote, but because this is America and they love having a fake democracy aka they won electoral college points and won the election

Question 26

What did Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan think about the media?

Answer 26

- media as extensions of the human body and the senses - medium is the message. the medium is the massage

Question 27

What was the turning point in Vietnam war?

Answer 27

Tet offensive

Question 28

What didn´t happen during Obama?

Answer 28

- "mission accomplished", that was Bush

Question 29

Cuba Crisis

Answer 29

- event that came closest to cause nuclear war between USA and USSR

Question 30

Brown v. Topeka

Answer 30

- school segregation unequal

Question 31

US v. Nixon

Answer 31

- president cant claim immunity or executive privilege

Question 32

Marbury v. Madison

Answer 32

- us court can strike down laws they deem unconstitutional

Question 33

Loving v. Virginia

Answer 33

- marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man", fundemental to our very existence and survival

Question 34

Bush v. Gore

Answer 34

- ended a statewide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court

Question 35

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 35

- separate but equal facilities are contitutional

Question 36

Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 36

- native american territories cannot be regulated by the government and are separate entities

Question 37

Main reason for people to immigrate to US

Answer 37

- economic growth

Question 38

In last 20 years, from which region came most immigrants to US?

Answer 38

Latin America

Question 39

What was the main point of Backlash by Susan Faludi?

Answer 39

female opression

Question 40

Who follows the Bible literally?

Answer 40

fundamentalists

Question 41

In which states is Baptist religion the dominant one?

Answer 41

Alabama, Texas, Mississipi, Arkansas?

Question 42

Which affiliation religious is more prone to be democratic?

Answer 42

- christians of color and unaffiliated

Question 43

Ghost dance movement or Society of American Indians

Answer 43

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

Question 44

The scripture "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" is found on which monument?

Answer 44

Statue of Liberty

Question 45

Eisenhowers view on the econom

Answer 45

Laissez-faire attitude towards the economy

Question 46

The Great Society legislation

Answer 46

- series of domestic programs enacted by Lyndon B. Johnson - 1964 and 1968 - aimed at eliminating poverty, reducing racial injustice, and expanding social welfare

Question 47

The 14th amendment bans all but:

Answer 47

- double jeopardy (this is in the 5th) - it DOES ban: Slavery, Unreasonable Search and Seizure, sex discrimination

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Amy Coney Barrett

Question 49

What didnt happen during George W. Bush?

Answer 49

assassination of Bin Laden was by Obama