Social Movements in America - Page 2
Questions
- 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?
- 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?
- What was life like in the suburbs in the 1950s?
- 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?