Review Questions
- The term Kennedy chose to describe his sealing off of Cuba to prevent Soviet shipments of weapons or supplies was ________.
- interdiction
- quarantine
- isolation
- blockade
- Kennedy proposed a constitutional amendment that would ________.
- provide healthcare for all Americans
- outlaw poll taxes
- make English the official language of the United States
- require all American men to register for the draft
- What steps did Kennedy take to combat Communism?
- ________ was Johnson’s program to provide federal funding for healthcare for the poor.
- Medicare
- Social Security
- Medicaid
- AFDC
- Many Americans began to doubt that the war in Vietnam could be won following ________.
- Khe Sanh
- Dien Bien Phu
- the Tonkin Gulf incident
- the Tet Offensive
- How did the actions of the Johnson administration improve the lives of African Americans?
- The new protest tactic against segregation used by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 was the ________.
- boycott
- guerilla theater
- teach-in
- sit-in
- The African American group that advocated the use of violence and espoused a Marxist ideology was called ________.
- the Black Panthers
- the Nation of Islam
- SNCC
- CORE
- Who founded the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado in 1965?
- Reies Lopez Tijerina
- Dolores Huerta
- Larry Itliong
- Rodolfo Gonzales
- How did the message of Black Power advocates differ from that of more mainstream civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr.?
- What was one of the major student organizations engaged in organizing protests and demonstrations against the Vietnam War?
- Committee for American Democracy
- Freedom Now Party
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Young Americans for Peace
- Which of the following was not a founding goal of NOW?
- to gain for women all the rights enjoyed by men
- to ensure passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
- to de-criminalize the use of birth control
- to allow women to participate in all aspects of American life
- In what ways did the birth control pill help to liberate women?