Megaquiz American History Quiz (American Dream Edexcel A Level)

Question 1

What did Harding promise to people on becoming President in 1921?

Accepted Answer

A return to 'normalcy'

Question 2

When did Stalin lead the USSR?

Accepted Answer

1922-53

Question 3

What did some black American athletes use when they won medals at the 1968 Olympics?

Accepted Answer

Black power salute

Question 4

What does KKK stand for?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 5

What does 'laissez-faire' mean?

Accepted Answer

Minimal government interference

Question 6

In 1968, whose support did President Johnson say he had lost for the Vietnam war?

Accepted Answer

'middle America'

Question 7

What was the collective name of the laws of segregation across the South in the early 20th C?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 8

Which President first sent troops into Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

J F Kennedy

Question 9

Hippies and radical student groups would be seen to be part of what in the 1960?

Accepted Answer

Counter-culture

Question 10

Which 1896 Supreme Court ruling established 'Separate but equal' ?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v Ferguson

Question 11

Where did a famous sit-in by 4 black students take place in 1960?

Accepted Answer

Greensboro

Question 12

Why was Harvey Milk significant?

Accepted Answer

1st openly gay person elected to public office in California

Question 13

Which Senator headed the Second Red Scare?

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 14

What is an anarchist's beliefs?

Accepted Answer

Run your own life without formal government

Question 15

What was Malcolm X's birth name?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm Little

Question 16

What year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?

Accepted Answer

1955

Question 17

Who were the VVAW?

Accepted Answer

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Question 18

What are the separate branches of the US government?

Accepted Answer

Legislative, Executive, Judiciary

Question 19

Which President pardoned Nixon when he took over the Presidency?

Accepted Answer

Ford

Question 20

HUAC stands for...

Accepted Answer

House Un-American Activities Commission

Question 21

Who was leader of the SNCC in 1965?

Accepted Answer

Stokely Carmichael

Question 22

What did liberal politicians promote as a move to support minorities in the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Positive discrimination

Question 23

What was the purpose of the Federal Defence Administration in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Organise & distibute safety advice related to nuclear attack

Question 24

When was the Second Red Scare?

Accepted Answer

1947-54

Question 25

Which two civil rights groups (still active) were set up in the first decade of the 20th C?

Accepted Answer

NAACP & National Urban League

Question 26

Where were 9 black children turned away from a previously all white school by the nat. guard?

Accepted Answer

Little Rock

Question 27

What does CORE stand for?

Accepted Answer

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 28

Who was President in 1917?

Accepted Answer

Wilson

Question 29

What party did Hoover belong to?

Accepted Answer

Republican

Question 30

Identify the famous black American who advocated accepting segregation in the early 20th C

Accepted Answer

Booker T Washington

Question 31

Franklin D. Roosevelt was President during which years?

Accepted Answer

1933-45

Question 32

During which years did the Watergate scandal take place?

Accepted Answer

1972-74

Question 33

Which President said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'?

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt

Question 34

Who led a railway workers protest and threatened a 100,000 strong all black march on washington

Accepted Answer

A. Philip Randolph

Question 35

What were the 2 major pieces of civil rights legislation between 1955 and 1980?

Accepted Answer

1964 Civil Rights Act & 1965 Voting Rights Act

Question 36

What did Martin Luther King Jr set up in 1957?

Accepted Answer

SCLC

Question 37

What does NAACP stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 38

When was the First Red Scare?

Accepted Answer

1919-20

Question 39

What is the GNP?

Accepted Answer

Gross National Product

Question 40

Who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

MIA

Question 41

Name Hoover's spin on laissez-faire that dwelt less on inaction & more on self-responsibility

Accepted Answer

Rugged individualism

Question 42

In what year did King announce his 'Northern Crusade' to improve slums?

Accepted Answer

1966

Question 43

When was the Wall Street Clash

Accepted Answer

October 1929

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