Social Movements in America

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• What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
• What was the U.S. policy towards communism in the 1950s and 1960s?
• What was Benign Neglect?
• Who was the last Democratic president before Bill Clinton?
• How did the movie Birth of a Nation add to racial problems in the South?
• Why is the womens suffrage movement important to U.S history?
• Did WWI have an impact on women suffrage?
• Was president Johnson's Great Society successful?
• What impact did The Great Society have on America?
• How did Johnson's Great Society change the nation?
• How did Johnson's Great Society change the role of the federal government?
• How did Johnson's Great Society effect education?
• What programs were set up by Kennedy to reduce the threat of nuclear war and to try to stem communism?
• What steps did women take to win worker's rights?
• What was the backlash by groups such as the White Citizens Councils, the music industry, and other more conservative artists to the growing popularity of rock and roll? What were the fears?
• How did the Hawaiian Islands become part of the United States?
• What is the historical significance of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1976?
• What is Freedom House and what it does it do?
• Until 1969, imported oil had never been more than 19.8 percent of the total amount of oil consumed in the United States. What happened to U.S. reliance on imported oil in the 1970s?
• Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? What groups of people did he target for deportation from the United States? Why were these groups of people targeted?
• Who were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti? Why was their execution controversial?
• How did Presidents Truman and Eisenhower differ regarding civil rights?
• In what year did the House Un-American Activities Committee investigate the movie industry in an attempt to root out communist sympathizers?
• Which black leader argued that African Americans needed to accommodate themselves to segregation?
• How would you describe or characterize the actions and opinions of students on campuse across America from 1966 to 1968?
• What was life like in the suburbs in the 1950s?
• What were some issues Truman fought for?
• Which decision by the Warren Court determined that separating children by race in schools was unconstitutional?
• What caused republicans to gain power in Congress in 1938?
• What group was formed to build support for sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the early 1960s?
• Why was isolationism strong in the United States in the early 1930s?
• What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society?
• Why did President John F. Kennedy create the Peace Corps?
• What action did president John F. Kennedy take in support of civil rights?
• What did the flight of the urban middle class do to the suburbs?
• In the 1970s, Native Americans won legal battles to what?
• How did changes in American society during the 1970s affect religion in the nation? How did this change in religion affect politics?
• Which U.S. President picked up where President Kennedy left off in pressing for the Civil Rights Act?
• Before most Americans had television sets by the 1950s, where did they get their news from?
• The landmark civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education rendered invalid the decision in which Supreme Court cade?
• What led to the Los Angeles riots in 1992?
• Which program started when President Johnson was in office?
• What did hippies do to show their disapproval of mainstream values?
• What scandal proved to be President Nixon's undoing.?
• What fashion trend did President Kennedy inspire in the 1960s?
• What was most valued by members of the counterculture?
• Question #782bd
• What impact do you think the name "Students for a Democratic Society" had on people?
• What is the main reason so many Great Society programs became law during the Johnson presidency?
• What helped Nixon get elected in 1968?
• In 1964, what issue did the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) focus on?
• What was one of the most active protest groups in 1968?
• What cultural contribution did the Beat generation make?
• Which book led movement to protect the environment?
• What was Roe vs. Wade?
• What challenges did women encounter in the workplace at the end of the twentieth century?
• What group of people were the Great Society programs benefiting?
• What did the government seek to do by following the Termination Policy?
• In the 1980s, what brought about record national budget deficits?
• How did President George H W Bush's appointment of a "drug czar" change drug crime in the United States?