Supreme Ct. Cases
Supreme court case that required that criminal suspects be informed of their constitutional rights before they could be arrested.
What is Miranda vs. Arizona
Assassinated President John F. Kennedy
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
The American troops were fighting two groups during the Vietnam War.
What is the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong?
Civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King?
A preschool program for children from poor families.
What is Head Start?
Interpreting the law and the constitution broadly to address what the justices saw as major social problems.
What is Judicial Activism?
Lyndon Johnson's opponent in the 1964 election.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
Two countries that supplied North Vietnam and the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
What is China and the Soviet Union (Russia)
Outlawed the use of poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
President Johnson's domestic policy.
What is the "Great Society"?
Supreme Court case passed in 1954 that ended segregation in schools.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1959 to 1969.
Who is Earl Warren?
The U.S. soldiers had difficulty dealing with the Vietcong.
What is, the Vietcong dressed and acted like the South Vietnamese.
A result of slow change in the area of civil rights along with increasing violence among counterculture of the 1960's eventually led to __________________.
What is urban riots?
The city with the worst race riots where 43 people died.
What is Detroit?
Supreme Court case that required states to furnish an attorney to defendants who could not afford one.
What is Gideon vs. Wainwright
Governor of Alabama who was shot and wounded in a mall in Maryland.
Who is George Wallace
President Johnson's increasing the number of soldiers in Vietnam led to ___________________________.
What are demonstrations and rallies against the war sprung up on college campuses?
This group of Americans approved of desegregation in the South but resisted calls for desegregation in schools and neighborhoods.
Who were many Northerners?
One of the "New Left" radical groups of this era
was ________________.
What were the Weathermen and/or the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)
Banned state sponsored prayer in schools.
What is Engel vs. Vitale
Democratic presidential candidate for the 1968 election who was challenging LBJ for the nomination.
Who is Eugene McCarthy?
________________________(event) led Congress to approve giving the president the authority to use all necessary measures to repeal armed attack against U.S. forces in Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident
President Johnson dedicated _________________ to the recently slain President Kennedy.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The year 1960's were highlighted by 3 instances of massive civil unrest. Name two of the three.
What is Urban riots, Student protests, and an endless Vietnan War?