1960’s Presentation Questions Answer key
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Richard Nixon-Republican, John Kennedy-Democrat, Kennedy
won the election
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Kennedy called King’s wife and helped arrange his release from
jail
Electoral vote
.02%
Lyndon Johnson
February 1, 1960: Woolworth’s Greensboro, North Carolina
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
if northern white America could see the nonviolent responses to
police brutality on television, the movement would gain
momentum
Carmichael embraced “Black Power”, ejected Whites from
organization and began working with the Black Panthers,
Brown advocated the use of violence if necessary. Brown went
into hiding in 1970 and organization basically disintegrated
to bring the Civil Rights Movement to the “Deep South” states,
especially Alabama and Mississippi where white resistance to
desegregation was the strongest
they helped organize the Mississippi Summer Project in which
volunteers from all over the country came to register and
encourage voters to vote for the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party (MFDP) candidates.
Vietnam War
New Frontier
Almost all of JFK’s legislative programs were not passed by
Congress
Michael Harrington
he began the framework for what eventually would be known as
the “War on Poverty”.
rising prices
JFK forcing steel companies to rescind their price hike
Equal Pay Act made it illegal to pay different wages to men and
women who perform the same work
more than 650,000 African Americans were registered to vote
in 11 southern states
James Meredith
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assassinated outside of his home after a meeting with other
civil rights activists
got the movement much needed press coverage
He wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham jail” in response
to local white ministers that called King a troublemaker
Eugene “Bull” Connor
Governor George Wallace brought in Alabama State Troopers
to confront the protestors. He opposed ending segregation and
used all of his gubernatorial powers to prevent it from
happening
250,000
Prime Minister Khrushchev used this incident to cancel a
planned east-west summit conference in Paris
to separate communist Berlin from the American and European
controlled sectors
nations that are usually defined as less industrialized and
poorer
Sargent Shriver
182,000
maintaining democratic governments, on industrial and agrarian
development, and on more equitable distribution of wealth
Communist who took over Cuba and declared himself an ally of
the USSR
Bay of Pigs
it was the closest the world has come to full scale nuclear war
Nuclear missiles that could destroy many U.S. cities
a blockade
Sputnik, USSR
Yuri Gagarin, USSR
Alan B. Shepard
John Glenn
France and Russia
Ho Chi Minh
to keep South Vietnam free from communist control
The U.S. decided that Diem's corrupt and murderous regime
was too unpopular and supported an army coup that killed
Diem on November 1, 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lyndon Johnson
Warren commission
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The first was full civil rights for African Americans. The second
was to end poverty in America
Barry Goldwater
as an extremist who might use nuclear weapons in Vietnam,
reverse popular federal programs, and opposed civil rights for
African Americans
“Daisy Girl” commercial
61% of the popular vote and 486 electoral votes
appeasing conservative southerners
the beginning of a shift from the Democratic “Solid South” to a
Republican base
Clean Air Act, Wilderness Act, Water Resources Research Act,
Water Quality Act, Water Quality Act,
JFK
to raise awareness of the inequities of the education system
where African American schools had limited resources.
Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner
Malcolm X
“reshape America” similar to what his idol, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, had done with the New Deal
see chart slide
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
answers will vary
to meet social, nutritional, psychological, and educational needs
of disadvantaged preschool-aged children
Jobs Corps
Volunteers In Service to America
AmeriCorps
strengthening the agricultural economy and providing improved
levels of nutrition among low-income households
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
allocated 1 billion dollars a year to schools with a high
concentration of low-income children
provides those aged 65 or disabled with health care
2006
answers will vary
Earl Warren
Roe Vs. Wade
his 5th Amendment rights were violated because the police did
not inform him of right to counsel or self-protection
“You have the right to remain silent”
“Anything you say can (and will) be used against you at trial”
“You have the right to legal counsel.”
“If you cannot afford counsel, it will be provided to you at no
charge”
81. white Anglo-Saxon males
82. Selma to Montgomery
83. Demonstrators were met by police with tear gas and clubs
84. 1. Authorized the use of federal voting registrars
2. Prevented states from changing their election laws without
clearance from the national government
3. Prevented the use of literacy tests as a prerequisite for voting
85. 34 people were killed, over 1,000 people were injured, and
about $40 million dollars in property damaged
86. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
87. protestors were pelted with rocks and beaten with sticks by
residents
88. Detroit, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio; Newark,
New Jersey; and Tampa, Florida
89. the man who murdered martin Luther Kind
90. brought college campuses across the nation into the anti-war
movement, as they were electrified by the brutal reaction to free
speech
91. University of California at Berkeley in 1964
92. actively tried to get Indian people to move off their reservations
and into cities to encourage assimilation
93. the official government policy of termination of Indian tribes was
ended and a policy of Indian self-determination became the
official U.S. government policy
94. Cesar Chavez
95. strike
96. equal rights under the law
97. legalizing birth control, securing reproductive freedom by
legalizing abortion and equal access to education and jobs
98. Betty Friedan
99. not to be defined by a male-dominated society but to seek new
roles and responsibilities and to find their own personal and
professional identities
100. National Organization for Women
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101. women’s increased ability to get work, changing societal
attitudes towards sex and acceptance of divorce
102. Ralph Waldo Emerson
103. Beats or Beatniks
104. college students
105. Timothy Leary
106. 1963, Douglas Engelbart
107. Neil Armstrong
108. "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against
forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression
109. to either increase U.S. involvement or see South Vietnam
defeated
110. Rolling Thunder
111. commander of the North Vietnam Army, Tet Offensive
112. to destabilize the Saigon regime and to force the United States
to negotiate a settlement
113. war could only be won through a greater commitment of men
and resources
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115. teach-ins” on college campuses to marches and civil
disobedience
116. a few days after McCarthy’s showing in the New Hampshire
primary
117. by announcing, “I will not seek, nor will I accept, the nomination
of my party for another term as your president
118. Richard Nixon. Republican
119. the “great majority of Americans, the forgotten Americans, the
non-shouters, the non-demonstrators”.
120. answers will vary