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Jeopardy Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Movement 2 Vietnam War Nixon to Carter Republican Revolution Clinton to Bush 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

When demonstrators protested silently at lunch counters

What is a sit-in A 100

Martin Luther King Jr.’s approach to the civil rights movement that he learned from Ghandi

What is nonviolent resistance

I was the first black student to enroll and take classes at the University of Mississippi

Who is James Meredith A 300

This banned the payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections

What is the 24th Amendment

This put the entire registration process under federal control

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965

I was one of the most influential leaders of the Nation of Islam, later leaving because of fundamental differences with the leader B 100

Who is Malcolm X B 100

This was a militant group that carried guns and had several gun battles with Police

Who are the Black Panthers

I helped to organize the United Farm Workers to strike in the fields of California B 300

Who is Cesar Chavez B 300

This group was inspired by the Black Panthers and protected Mexican Americans

Who are the Brown Berets

This organization became the major force behind the Red Power movement

What is AIM (American Indian Movement) B 500

I was the leader of the North Vietnamese C 100

Who is Ho Chi Minh C 100

I was the leader of South Vietnam who was later assassinated C 200

Who is Ngo Dinh Diem C 200

We were rebel fighters that lived in south Vietnam C 300

Who were the vietcong C 300

DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager C 400

This was a network of jungle paths that was used by the North Vietnamese to bring weapons into the South C 400

What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail

This lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 C 500

What is the 26th Amendment C 500

I was the only President to ever resign

Who is Richard Nixon D 100

I was Nixon’s key foreign policy advisor

Who is Henry Kissinger D 200

I succeeded President Nixon after he resigned and gave him a very controversial pardon

Who is Gerald Ford D 300

This is the combination of rising unemployment and inflation

What is stagflation D 400

This involved firing Archibald Cox the special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal where both the Attorney General & Deputy Attorney General refused to fire Cox D 500

What is the Saturday Night Massacre

I was the economic plan of Ronald Reagan

What is Reaganomics E 100

This global event cost Jimmy Carter reelection

What is the Iran Hostage Crisis

This was a rebel army recruited, financed, and armed by the CIA in Nicaragua

Who are the Contras E 300

This was Gorbachev’s policy of openness that promised more freedom for the Soviet people

What is glasnost E 400

I was the President when the Berlin Wall came down

Who is George H.W. Bush E 500

I won the presidential election of 1992, who am I and who was my vice president

Who is President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore F 100

I was the third party candidate during the 1992 presidential election F 200

Who is Ross Perot F 200

When President Clinton did this he was able to cut the federal deficit in half during his first term

What is raise taxes and cut federal spending

I was the person who exposed President Clinton’s scandals F 400

Who is Kenneth Starr F 400

I was created in the 1960’s as a Defense Department communications project

What is the Internet F 500

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I was the commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam Final Jeopardy I was the commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam Click on screen to continue

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