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Category 1 – 10 Points What were the earliest suburbs built in the ‘50s called?
Category 1 – 20 Points What is the name of the US region that stretches from New York to Georgia?
Category 1 – 30 Points Who developed the oral vaccine for polio?
Category 1 – 40 Points Who was part of the beat movement and wrote “On The Road”?
Category 1 – 50 Points Which group did the federal government’s “termination policy” impact?
Category 2 – 10 Points Who were the 2 candidates running in the 1960 presidential election?
Category 2 – 20 Points What was the name of Kennedy’s legislative agenda?
Category 2 – 30 Points What was the conclusion the Warren Commission came to?
Category 2 – 40 Points What was the name of LBJ’s legislative agenda?
Category 2 – 50 Points Where did the Bay of Pigs invasion take place? Who was the leader of that country at the time?
Category 3 – 10 Points Which nonviolent protest group did MLK spearhead?
Category 3 – 20 Points Which nonviolent protest group tried to work through the legal system?
Category 3 – 30 Points What method did CORE use to help integrate many restaurants?
Category 3 – 40 Points Who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court?
Category 3 – 50 Points Which court case overturned the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson?
Category 4 – 10 Points Who led the communist forces in North Vietnam?
Category 4 – 20 Points Who led the anti- communist forces in South Vietnam?
Category 4 – 30 Points What was the name of the group in the South who opposed Ngo Dinh Diem’s rule?
Category 4 – 40 Points The US entered the Vietnam War after which event?
Category 4 – 50 Points What happened at My Lai that shocked Americans?
Category 5 – 10 Points Who wrote the book “The Feminine Mystique”?
Category 5 – 20 Points To push for better wages, what product did Cesar Chavez boycott?
Category 5 – 30 Points Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
Category 5 – 40 Points Which part of the ERA prohibited federally funded schools from discriminating by gender?
Category 5 – 50 Points Which Supreme Court case was a landmark decision on abortion?