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Explore the progressive policies implemented by US Presidents and the civil rights protestors who fought for equality. Learn about the impact of World War I on the homefront and the Vietnam War protests.
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Presidential Policies Alphabet Soup WW I Homefront Civil Rights Protestors Vietnam 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500
Row 1---100 Question Party started by Theodore Roosevelt during his 1912 attempt to run for President as a third party candidate.
Row 1---100 Answer Bull Moose Party (Progressive Party)
Row 1---200 Question 1914 law that strengthen the governments ability to break up illegal trusts that overcharged consumers and hindered competition.
Row 1---200 Answer Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
Row 1---300 Question Secret documents leaked to the NY Times that told of the activities of several Presidents to escalate the war in Vietnam without the Congress’ or public’s knowledge.
Row 1---300 Answer Pentagon Papers
Row 1---400 Question Policy of FDR where he pledged to help the poor of the American public in the Depression and he would provide direct aid to those who needed it.
Row 1---400 Answer New Deal
Row 1---500 Question Name of the world peace keeping organization proposed by President Woodrow Wilson.
Row 1---500 Answer League of Nations
Row 2---100 Question New Deal program designed to provide jobs and electricity through one of the nation’s poorest areas. Program still exists today.
Row 2---200 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---200 Answer FDIC
Row 2---300 Question New Deal program designed to give jobs to the unemployed. The program was used to build many public buildings, roads, and schools.
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---500 Question New Deal program designed to get businesses and consumers to support the policies of the government. Prices were set and wages were arranged. Working hours were regulated and strikes postponed. Cooperating businesses displayed the program’s symbol of a blue eagle. -
Row 3---100 Question Federal law passed during the first World War that limited any form of protest against the policies of the government or its ability to fight the war. Chgallenged in court where the “clear and present danger” doctrine supported the government’s case.
Row 3---100 Answer Espionage & Sedition Act
Row 3---200 Question Progressive President who established the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, and got the Clayton Anti-trust Act passed. Led the nation through WW I and tried to establish the League of Nations.
Row 3---200 Answer Woodrow Wilson
Row 3---300 Question Supreme Court case where the court set the doctrine of “clear and present danger” to judge the constitutionality of one’s actions. Court stated that rights are curtailed during times of war.
Row 3---300 Answer Schenck v. US
Row 3---400 Question This is the name of Woodrow Wilson’s plan that he took to the Versailles Peace Treaty Conference. The plan stated the reason for war and gave suggestions as to how to avoid future wars. The last part described a world peace keeping group.
Row 3---400 Answer Fourteen Points
Row 3---500 Question Conference to end WW I. The Big Four from the U.S., Britain, France, and Italy decided most of the issues. Most of Wilson’s 14 Points were ignored except for the League of Nations. Germany was put at fault for causing the war.
Row 3---500 Answer Versailles Peace Conference
Row 4---100 Question Group of civil disobedience protestors who rode into segregated bus stations to prove the point of civil rights abuses. Some were injured in a bomb that was placed on one of the buses.
Row 4---100 Answer Freedom Riders
Row 4---200 Question City in 1963 that met civil rights protestors with police dogs and firehoses. Brought national attention to the movement and forced the Federal government to respond.
Row 4---200 Answer Birmingham
Row 4---300 Question African American man who was the first to go to a formerly segregated University of Mississippi.
Row 4---300 Answer James Meredith
Row 4---400 Question Governor of Alabama who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to protest its order to integrate. He later ran for President on a platform of continued segregation.
Row 4---400 Answer George Wallace
Row 4---500 Question Idea promoted by Stokley Carmichael to describe the idea that African Americans should control their social, economic, and political lives and separate from white society if needed.
Row 4---500 Answer Black Power
Row 5---100 Question Name of the South Vietnamese communist fighters who were our opponents in the Vietnam War.
Row 5---100 Answer Viet Cong
Row 5---200 Question This was the turning point of the Vietnam Conflict as the Communist forces mounted a massive offensive and although they were defeated it served to discourage the American military and public. Jan. 1968
Row 5---200 Answer Tet Offensive
Row 5---300 Question Practice of giving college bound students an exemption from the draft sending men to fight in Vietnam. This became one of the major issue protested in the war.
Row 5---300 Answer Deferments
Row 5---400 Question College campus where Vietnam War protests were met with the gunfire of National Guard troops and several students were killed.
Row 5---400 Answer Kent State
Row 5---500 Question Name given to members of the counter culture movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. They often objected to societal norms and experimented with communal living and hallucinogenic drugs.
