Review Questions

1. The term Kennedy chose to describe his sealing off of Cuba to prevent Soviet shipments of weapons or supplies was ________.

interdiction
quarantine
isolation
blockade

2. 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

3. What steps did Kennedy take to combat Communism?

4. ________ was Johnson’s program to provide federal funding for healthcare for the poor.

Medicare
Social Security
Medicaid
AFDC

5. 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

6. How did the actions of the Johnson administration improve the lives of African Americans?

7. The new protest tactic against segregation used by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 was the ________.

boycott
guerilla theater
teach-in
sit-in

8. 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

9. Who founded the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado in 1965?

Reies Lopez Tijerina
Dolores Huerta
Larry Itliong
Rodolfo Gonzales

10. How did the message of Black Power advocates differ from that of more mainstream civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jr.?

11. 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

12. 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

13. In what ways did the birth control pill help to liberate women?