His speech included the words 'I have a dream' - famous black civil rights activist
Martin Luther King
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Greatest stock market crash in US HIstory
Wall St. Crash
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A 1964 Act created to ban discrimination against gender and race
Civil Rights Act
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The reason why America entered the Second World War in 1941
Pearl Harbour
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1917 - widespread fear of Bolshevism triggered after the...?
Russian Revolution
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This black lady refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955
Rosa Parks
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Changed the legal status of 3 million slaves in designated areas of the South from 'slave' to 'free' during the middle of the American Civil War (1863)
Emancipation Proclamation
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Created in 1933 as a response to the Great Depression - 'Relief, Recovery and Reform'
New Deal
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An Act created by JFK to stop sexual discrimination within jobs
Equal Pay Act
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Introduced in 1919 and declared illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol
Prohibition
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1866 - the year in which an extremely racist group, who also hated Jews, was founded
Ku Klux Klan
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1965 - a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks was assassinated in this year
Malcolm X
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Greatest stock market crash in US HIstory
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Wall St. Crash
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A 1964 Act created to ban discrimination against gender and race
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Card 4
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The reason why America entered the Second World War in 1941
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Card 5
Front
1917 - widespread fear of Bolshevism triggered after the...?
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