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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1• This scandal began during Pres. Nixon’s 1972

reelection campaign• “burglars” broke into the Democratic Hdqtrs in DC to

wiretap phones and obtain campaign strategy secrets – caught by security guard

• Nixon did not participate in the break in, but released tapes of White House conversations revealed that he participated in the cover-up

• Nixon resigned from office Aug 1974 • Would have been impeached

$100 Answer from H1

What is …

Watergate

$200 Question from H1• President Johnson is accused of lying to the American public about American progress during THIS WAR. While official gov’t reports told of imminent victory, TV reports revealed setbacks and growing US casualties

• The Pentagon Papers, revealed in 1971, told that the presidential administrations of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson had all misled the public about the degree of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

$200 Answer from H1

What is …..

The Vietnam War

$300 Question from H1

•This president caused a scandal in 1998 when he lied under oath regarding an inappropriate affair with a White House intern.

• He was impeached in the House of Representatives but acquitted in the Senate and remained in office.

$300 Answer from H1

Who is …. Pres. Bill Clinton

$400 Question from H1• This scheme turned into a scandal during the

Great Depression• Pres. FDR, angry that the Supreme Court began

declaring some of his New Deal programs unconstitutional, devised a plan to add 6 more supreme court justices that would be more acceptable to his ideas.

• The plan backfired as Americans were outraged with FDR for attempting to interfere with the Constitutional principles of Checks and Balances and Separation of Power

$400 Answer from H1What is….

The Court Packing Plan

$500 Question from H1• Partly because of this 1921+ scandal, the Harding

Administration goes down in history as one of the most corrupt

• Harding’s Sec. of Interior Albert B. Fall accepted bribes and leased out Navy Oil Reserves in Wyoming and two other locations in California to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding

• In 1924, Fall was convicted of accepting bribes, sentenced to prison, and fined $100,000. This made him the first presidential cabinet member to ever be convicted of crimes committed while in office.

$500 Answer from H1What is ….

The Teapot Dome Scandal

1924 cartoon shows Washington officials fleeing in panic down an oil-slicked road to the White House, trying desperately to outpace the giant steamroller symbolizing the Teapot Dome scandal of President Warren G. Harding's administration

$100 Question from H2• This was a proposed constitutional amendment that

aimed to secure equal rights for women• It was supported by groups such as NOW (Nat’l

Organization of Women)• The opposition, led by Phyllis Schlafly and other

conservatives, successfully argued that it jeopardized traditional values and that it might lead to women in the military draft, loss of alimony and child custody preferences.

• it was passed by Congress, but not ¾ of the states • did not become an amendment

$100 Answer from H2

What is …. ERA Equal Rights Amendment

$200 Question from H2

• Mutual Defense Alliance• Original members included

US, Canada and many countries of Western Europe

• Formed in response to Soviet aggression and expansion after WWII

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$200 Answer from H2

What is…

NATONorth Atlantic

Treaty Organization

$300 Question from H2

• Free Trade Agreement• Eliminates or reduces trade barriers such as tariffs, quotas, customs duties

• Members = US, Canada, Mexico

$300 Answer from H2What is …

NAFTANorth American Free Trade

Agreement

$400 Question from H2• Organization formed after WWII• Goals are WORLD PEACE +

International Cooperation + respect for human rights + social progress + higher living standards

• 193 members

$400 Answer from H2

What is …. UNUnited Nations

$500 Question from H2

• This Civil Rights Organization was formed in 1909 (W.E.B. DuBois was one of the founding members)

• Fights Discrimination in the Court Room through the Legal System

$500 Answer from H2What is ….

NAACPNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People

$100 Question from H3

Gov’t structure designed to keep any one branch of gov’t from gaining to much power

$100 Answer from H3What is…..

Checks & Balances

$200 Question from H3

rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the Constitution

$200 Answer from H3What are….

Individual Rights

$300 Question from H3

People are the source of all government power

$300 Answer from H3What is…

Popular Sovereignty

$400 Question from H3

The power of gov’t is separated between the Legislative (makes laws), Executive (enforces laws) and Judicial (interprets laws) branches of the US gov’t

$400 Answer from H3What is …

Separation of Powers

$500 Question from H3

Power is divided by the Constitution between the federal (central or nat’l) gov’t and the state gov’ts

$500 Answer from H3

What is…. Federalism

$100 Question from H4

This unfavorable situation occurs when a country imports more than it exports

$100 Answer from H4What is ….

A Trade Deficit

$200 Question from H4• In this economic system,

individuals or privately owned businesses, motivated by profit, make the decisions about what to make, how much to make and who to make it for.

• Production and prices determined by laws of supply & demand. Competition good!

$200 Answer from H4

What is ….

Free Enterprise (aka: capitalism, Market Economy)

$300 Question from H4

This refers to the increasingly fast movement of goods, services, money, people, ideas thanks to greater connectivity of nations – computers/internet for speedy communication across long distances and ease of transportation

$300 Answer from H4What is…

Globalization

$400 Question from H4• In this economic system the GOVERNMENT makes the decisions about what to make, how much to make and who to make it for

• When gov’t owns all means of production, farms, industries etc, it is COMMUNISM

$400 Answer from H4

What is ….

Command Economy

$500 Question from H4

The idea that tax cuts lead to higher tax revenue. With a tax cut, businesses keep more of their money. They can use this money to expand and hire more workers and produce more. With higher employment and higher production, the gov’t earns more tax revenue.

$500 Answer from H4What is …Supply Side Economics (Reaganomics, Trickle Down)

$100 Question from H5• begins with Stock Market Crash 10/29/1929• caused by overproduction, tariffs, mistakes by the FED, stock speculation

• marked by high unemployment and homelessness

• Dust Bowl occurs on Great Plains• Pres. FDR combats this with New Deal• Ends with WWII production increases

$100 Answer from H5

What was….

The Great Depression1929-1940

$200 Question from H5

• Prosperity• Radio• Prohibition and organized crime• Jazz Music• Harlem Renaissance• Flappers and relaxed morals for women• Talking Movies

$200 Answer from H5

What were…

The Roaring 20s1920-1929

$300 Question from H5• many reforms (fought child labor, machine politics etc.)

• More gov’t regulations on business• Muckrakers expose societal ills• Democracy expanded thanks to the

direct primary, referendum, recall, intiative

• Amendments 16-19

$300 Answer from H5What is….

The Progressive Era1898-1920

$400 Question from H5• Era with many new innovations, but corruption and poverty beneath

• Westward Expansion• Industrialization• Urbanization (The Tenements!)• Machine Politics• Robber Barons (Rockerfeller, Carnegie)• Rise of labor unions

$400 Answer from H5

What is…

The Gilded Age1877-1898

$500 Question from H5

• Era of Confrontation between the US & USSR

• Capitalism vs Communism• Highlights: nuclear arms

race, space race

$500 Answer from H5

What is…

The Cold War1945-1991

Final Jeopardy• Improved equality for women, blacks, Indians and other minorities

• Most famous activist was Martin Luther King Jr.

• end of segregation of schools (Brown v. Board of Education)

• other public places desegregated• occurs during the Cold War Era (mostly 1950s-60s

Final Jeopardy AnswerWhat is…

The Civil Rights Era1954-1968