Acts and Laws
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Congressional
-1920’s Immigration law that set
up a quota system.
Row 1---100 Question
-National Origins Act
Row 1---100 Answer
-Civil rights law passed after
JFK’S death that banned
segregation in all public places.
Row 1---200 Question
-Civil Rights Act, 1964
Row 1---200 Answer
-Law passed after the Vietnam
War which limits the President’s
ability to send troops into battle
without the approval from
Congress.
Row 1---300 Question
-War Powers Act
Row 1---300 Answer
-1914 law that strengthen the
governments ability to break up
illegal trusts that overcharged
consumers and hindered
competition.
Row 1---400 Question
-Clayton Anti-Trust
Act
Row 1---400 Answer
-What National Law passed to
guarantee voting privileges to
African Americans across the
nation?
Row 1---500 Question
-Voting Rights Act,
1965
Row 1---500 Answer
-What is the FDA?
Row 2---100 Question
-Government agency
created after the
publishing of the
“Jungle” to make sure
the food and medicine
we take are safe.
Row 2---100 Answer
-What is TVA?
Row 2---200 Question
-New Deal program
designed to provide
jobs and electricity
through one of the
nation’s poorest areas.
Row 2---200 Answer
-What is FDIC?
Row 2---300 Question
-New Deal Program
that was designed to
foster confidence in
the banking system
because the
government will
guarantee your savings
are safe.
Row 2---300 Answer
-What is CCC?
Row 2---400 Question
-New deal program
where young men were
sent to do work outside
planting trees, fighting
forest fires, and
working in national
parks.
Row 2---400 Answer
-What is NATO?
Row 2---500 Question
-Name of the security
organization formed by
the U.S. and western
European nations in the
Cold War.
Row 2---500 Answer
-What was the Zimmermann note
about?
Row 3---100 Question
-an intercepted
telegram from Germany
to Mexico declare war
on U.S. to keep the
U.S. out of WWI.
Row 3---100 Answer
-What was the Dust Bowl?
Row 3---200 Question
-It was a name given to
the lower mid-west
during a period of
great drought in the
1930’s.
Row 3---200 Answer
-What made Kent State so
famous?
Row 3---300 Question
-It was the college
where Vietnam War
protests were met with
gunfire of National
Guard troops and
several students were
killed.
Row 3---300 Answer
-What happened in Hiroshima?
Row 3---400 Question
-It was the place where
the first atomic bomb
was dropped in
August,1945.
Row 3---400 Answer
-Who was James Earl Ray?
Row 3---500 Question
-He was the convicted
assassin of Martin
Luther King Jr.
Row 3---500 Answer
-African American leader who
stressed the blacks need to be
given the same chance at higher
education and civil rights as
whites.
Row 4---100 Question
-W.E.B. DuBois
Row 4---100 Answer
-African American who proposed
a Negro nationalism movement.
Row 4---200 Question
-Marcus Garvey
Row 4---200 Answer
-What Supreme Court case ruled
that segregation is no longer
acceptable?
Row 4---300 Question
-Brown v. Board of
Education
Row 4---300 Answer
-Name the city where President
Eisenhower had to send troops in
order to desegregate an all white
school in 1957.
Row 4---400 Question
-Little Rock
Row 4---400 Answer
-Name the person who accepted
the use of violence in order to
defend oneself against civil rights
abuse.
Row 4---500 Question
-Malcolm X
Row 4---500 Answer
-Her actions on a segregated bus
sparked the beginning of the civil
rights movement.
Row 5---100 Question
-Rosa Parks
Row 5---100 Answer
-He advocated the teaching of
trade skills to help achieve
academic equality first.
Row 5---200 Question
-Booker T. Washington
Row 5---200 Answer
-Period of African American art,
music, and literature during the
1920’s.
Row 5---300 Question
-Harlem Renaissance
Row 5---300 Answer
-Supreme Court case that made
segregation legal with the doctrine
of “separate but equal”. Decision
made in 1896.
Row 5---400 Question
-Plessy v. Ferguson
Row 5---400 Answer
-Leader of the non-violence
disobedience civil rights
movement that begun in
Montgomery, Alabama and spread
across the nation.
Row 5---500 Question
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Row 5---500 Answer