TIME OF CHANGE - SECTION 6
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- Q1Close to 100 years after this amendment was passed which was established to guarantee equal protection under the law regardless of race or color, there was inequality that was practiced in parts of the country under the Jim Crow Laws.13th Amendment15th Amendment14th Amendment16th Amendment30s
- Q2According to the Warren Commission this individual was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.John Wilkes BoothJohn Hinkley Jr.James Earl RayLee Harvey Oswald30s
- Q3The African Americans ,“The Little Rock Nine” in Arkansas became famous in 1957 after President Eisenhower did what?Ordered all trains to be integratedOrdered all schools to be integratedOrdered all restaurants to be desegregated in ArkansasSent federal troops to protect the students entering school30s
- Q4One of the reasons that would lead the United States into the Vietnam conflict was that if Vietnam became communist, than the rest of Asia would became communist, this was calledThe Domino TheoryThe Containment AffectBreaking Down Wall TheoryCommunist Manifesto30s
- Q5What slogan helped Richard Nixon get elected as President in 1968?“Peace with honor”“Victory at all costs”“Bring our troops home now”“The only good Communist is a dead Communist”30s
- Q6President Lyndon B. Johnson called his plan focused on social welfare improvements, between 1965 to 1969, with a war on poverty as its centerpiece this?The Civil Rights ActThe Social RevivalThe Poverty Relief ActThe Great Society30s
- Q7What was the ultimate motivation for all the illegal actions taken by the Nixon administration in the Watergate scandal?Keeping Richard Nixon in officeExposing corruptionEmbarrassing the Republican PartyHelping the Democratic Party30s
- Q8President Johnson signed this, in 1968, to prohibit discrimination in housing based on race or color.Fair Living ActFair Home ActFair Housing ActFair Homestead Act30s
- Q9This U.S. Supreme Court Case ruled that Segregation could and would be allowed as long as things being separated were roughly equal in quality?Nixon v. U.SPlessy v. FergusonBrown v. Board of EducationMiranda v. Arizona30s
- Q10Four student demonstrators were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard at Kent Sate University right after this event.Congress passed the Civil Rights ActLyndon B. Johnson passed the Gulf of Tokin resolutionNixon announced U.S. troops were being sent into CambodiaMartin Luther King Jr. was assassinated30s
- Q11Why did Kennedy refrain from bombing Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?He wanted to maintain friendly relations with CubaHe was afraid of the Soviet military machineHe wanted to avoid a worldwide nuclear warHe knew that U.S. bombs were incapable of destroying Soviet Missiles30s
- Q12The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by which U.S. President?Lyndon B. JohnsonJohn F. KennedyRichard M NixonDwight D. Eisenhower30s
- Q13What advantage did the Viet Cong have over the American military?The Viet Cong knew the terrain extremely wellThe Viet Cong had more advanced technologyThe Viet Cong had a superior air forceThe Viet Cong had more soldiers30s
- Q14What role did the Supreme Court play during the civil rights movement?It urged Congress to pass new laws legalizing integrationIt wrote new laws that made integration legalIt supported the segregationist policies of Southern governorsIt overturned some of the laws that made segregation legal30s
- Q15Kennedy began this program, which sent volunteers to help people in developing nations.Volunteer CorpsNew Frontier CorpsPeace CorpsLiberty Corps30s