General Info
The Economic Opportunity Act provided funds for what?
Job training and created community action programs
A Texas born native who taught school, became principal, elected U.S. House Representative, and U.S. Senator before becoming U.S. Vice-President and then President.
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)
Passed by the U.S. Congress giving the President the authority to order troops into combat with Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
A movement that called for change of the treatment of Mexican Americans and migrant farm workers
Chicano Movement
A program that took charge of the U.S. space program and made U.S. goals in space a reality
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Vietnam
First HISPANIC American to be elected mayor of a major American City
Raymond Telles (El Paso)
Program designed to provide early childhood education and nutrition
Head Start
Protest that involved sitting down in a public facility and refusing to leave
Sit-ins
Astronaut that was on the first MANNED flight of the Apollo program
Walter Cunningham
What was the full name of the Present LBJ
Lyndon B. Johnson
First Mexican American to be elected into the U.S. Senate to represent Texas
Henry B. Gonzalez
Act that provided funds for job training and created community action programs
Economic Opportunity Act
Political party that helped highlight issues affecting Hispanic Americans and to elect more Hispanic Americans
La Raza Unida Party
NASA headquarters located in Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
Performed the first arterial bypass operation to repair a damaged heart
Michael DeBakey
Program launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) that launched laws improving health care, education, environmental protection, job training, and immigration
Great Society
Henry B. Gonzalez was the first Mexican American to be elected into the what to represent Texas?
U. S. Senate
Placed the first artificial heart in a patient