AQA GCSE History "America 1920-1973" - People

This quiz is for people taking the AQA GCSE History Module " America 1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality", which focuses on the United States in the 20th Century. Name all the people associated with this module.

According to the textbook for the module published by Oxford University Press.

It is not necessarily vital to know about all of these people.

Some people listed only as writers of sources or in suggestions for further research are not included. Also some people are combined into one clue at my discretion.

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First president of the United States	George Washington
US President who proposed the formation of the League of Nations	Woodrow Wilson
Namesake of a Tariff Act that encouraged Americans to buy goods produced in the USA	Joseph W. Fordney
Namesake of a Tariff Act that encouraged Americans to buy goods produced in the USA	Porter J. McCumber
US president known for corruption and wanting to get "back to normalcy" following the First World War	Warren G. Harding
US president who wanted to support businesses, saying "the chief business of the American people is business"	Calvin Coolidge
US president during the Wall Street Crash who believed in "rugged individualism" and in Laissez-Faire policies	Herbert Hoover
Entrepreneur who popularised the production line and made cars that were cheap enough for ordinary people to afford	Henry Ford
Stunt performer who sat on the top of a flagpole for 49 days in the 1920s	Alvin 'Shipwreck' Kelly
Celebrity baseball player who set a home run record that lasted until 1961	Babe Ruth
Celebrity golfer in the 1920s	Bobby Jones
Competitor in the 1927 World Heavyweight Boxing title, which had 60 million radio listeners	√
Influential jazz musician in the 1920s or 1930s	√
Famous performer in 1920s films	√
Influential cartoon maker who had a large impact on popular culture	Walt Disney
Namesake of a set of rules all films had to follow to avoid obscenity and incitement to crime	Will H. Hays
Gang leader who was the head of a gang selling alcohol during the prohibition era	√
US President who created the First and Second New Deals, repealed Prohibition and led the USA for most of the Second World War	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)	W. E. B. Du Bois
Leader of the Ku Klux Klan	Hiram Wesley Evans
KKK member who was convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman, reducing the appeal of the KKK	David Stephenson
US Attorney General whose house was the target of a Communist terrorist attack, triggering the First Red Scare	Alexander Mitchell Palmer
Anarchist who assassinated the US president in 1901	Leon Franz Czolgosz
US president who was assassinated by the above	William McKinley
Italian-born immigrant charged with robbery and murder and sentenced to death by electric chair; he may not actually have been guilty	Nicola Sacco
Italian-born immigrant charged with robbery and murder and sentenced to death by electric chair; he may not actually have been guilty	Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Judge who sentenced the above; he said that he "may not actually have committed the crime but he is morally to blame because he is our enemy"	Wester Thayer
Namesake of the tariff passed by the President in 1930, aiming to deal with the Great Depression	Reed Smoot
Namesake of the tariff passed by the President in 1930, aiming to deal with the Great Depression	Willis C. Hawley
First Lady of the USA from 1933-1945	Eleanor Roosevelt
Politician who didn't think the New Deal went far enough and proposed a scheme called Share Our Wealth in which nobody would be allowed to own more than $5 million and everyone would get $5000 to buy a radio, car and house	Huey Long
Retired doctor who proposed that everyone should retire at 60 to make more jobs for the young	Francis Townsend
Catholic priest who set up the National Union for Social Justice, which aimed to provide fair work and wages for everyone; he had a radio show but was later forced off air for supporting the Nazis	Charles Coughlin

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Losing candidate in the 1936 presidential election; he lost by the greatest margin in history	Alf London
Billionaire who was the only individual paying 79% income tax (the top tax bracket) under the New Deal	John D. Rockefeller
Leader of the Black Cabinet, a group advising the president about issues regarding black people in the late 1930s	Mary McLeod Bethune
Popular musician in the 1930s (not jazz)	√
Author who wrote about life in the Great Depression	√
Head of the Works Progress Administration who said in response to criticism about wasting taxpayers' money "hell, they've got to eat just like the rest of us!"	Harry Hopkins
German dictator who the US fought against in the Second World War	Adolf Hitler
Vice-president who became president in April 1945 when the previous one died; he increased the minimum wage from 40 cents per hour to 75 cents per hour as part of the 'Fair Deal'	Harry S. Truman
Republican president elected in 1952 who brought business people into the government to maintain the economy	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Influential figure in the 1950s 'teenage rebellion'	√
Influential Rock 'n' Roll singer	Elvis Presley
Member of the US government accused of spying for the Soviet Union	Alger Hiss
Couple executed in 1953 for passing secrets regarding the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union (they may not actually have been guilty)	Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Senator who claimed to have a list of 200 communist party members, who was the namesake of the 'Witch Hunts' in the Second Red Scare	Joseph McCarthy
Mixed-race politician who successfully campaigned to allow African-American journalists into the press rooms at Congress and to allow African-American students into the US Naval Academy in the 1940s	Adam Clayton Powell
African-American baseball player who left the Negro National League and joined a previously all-white club in 1947	Jackie Robinson
Father of a black girl who took the Board of Education of Topeka to court for segregating schools by race in 1954	Oliver Brown
Daughter of the above who had to walk two miles to go to school even though there was a school for white students half a mile away	Linda Brown
Black girl who was photographed trying to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas along with eight other black students in 1957	Elizabeth Eckford
Governor of Arkansas who sent soldiers to prevent these students from entering, though they were eventually forced to leave by the Federal government	Orville Faubus
African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggering the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955	Rosa Parks
Baptist preacher who led many civil rights protests including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, believed in non-violent protest and delivered the 'I have a dream' speech	Martin Luther King Jr.
Man who assassinated the above in 1968	James Earl Ray
Police chief in Birmingham, Alabama who attacked civil rights protestors on a non-violent march, leading to a greater level of support for the Civil Rights Movement	Eugene 'Bull' Connor
US President known for supporting the Civil Rights Movement, describing a 'New Frontier' and being assassinated in 1963	John F. Kennedy
Former vice-president who became president after the assassination of the above; he was known for promising a 'Great Society', manipulating his opponents and passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965	Lyndon B. Johnson
White civil rights campaigner who was murdered by the KKK in 1965	Viola Liuzzo
Black American sprinter who wore black gloves and no shoes to protest against poverty in the African-American community and support the Black Power movement	√
Former member of the Nation of Islam who was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam after becoming less extreme in his views	Malcolm X
African-American student who won a place at Mississippi University but was being persecuted by racists, who the president sent soldiers to protect	James Meredith
Author of the book 'The Feminine Mystique', which argued that women were not being given enough opportunities to pursue a career	Betty Friedan
Leader of the STOP ERA campaign, which successfully opposed the Equal Rights Amendment on the grounds that it would lead to women in combat, abortion, unisex bathrooms and homosexual marriage	Phyllis Schlafly
21-year-old woman who won the right to have an abortion in 1973 after a ruling by the Supreme Court	Jane Roe / Norma McCorvey

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