JFK at Home
The name used to refer to JFK’s domestic programs.
The New Frontier
Lyndon Johnson held this office immediately before becoming President.
Vice-President
He ended up securing the Democratic nomination for president in 1968.
Hubert Humphrey
This document written by Martin Luther King in 1963 provided a defense of his tactics of nonviolent resistance and direct action.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
This Supreme Court decision, handed down in 1973, protected womens’ access to abortion early in a pregnancy.
Roe v. Wade
This law, passed under JFK, involved a step forward for the women’s movement but did not eliminate the gender pay gap.
Equal Pay Act
While a military defeat in 1968 for the Viet Cong, this event served to turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War.
Tet Offensive
This event in 1969 gave rise to the modern gay rights movement.
Stonewall Riots
This development in the late 1960s resulted in 250 deaths and resulted from both racism and disappointed hopes.
urban riots
Evidence Richard Nixon was required to hand over – which definitively revealed presidential involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
White House tapes
His successful orbit of the earth was the immediate impetus for JFK’s announcement of the American Moon Program.
Yuri Gagarin
This program, begun under President Johnson, was a domestic version of the Peace Corps.
VISTA
This organization used forceful tactics such as the takeover of Alcatraz (1969) and the taking of hostages at Wounded Knee (1973) to draw attention to the plight of native Americans.
American Indian Movement
His assassination in 1968 resulted in violence and disillusion in the African-American community.
Martin Luther King
One of the two government divisions established by Nixon that are frequently associated with more liberal policies.
Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Two of three policies that represented victories for JFK’s domestic Policy.
raised minimum wage, expansion of social security, aid for housing
This measure by Congress authorized military escalation in Vietnam in response to alleged attacks by North Vietnamese gunboats.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Two policy objectives of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
equal pay, equal access to jobs, end of discrimination, abortion access
This legislation resulted in part from the March from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
Voting Rights Act
This resulted from US support for Israel in the Yom Kippur War and hurt the U.S. economy.
oil embargo
While conspiracy theories abound, this group concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The Warren Commission
Rather than calling up the reserves, Johnson relied on this to provide military recruits for service in Vietnam.
the draft
This youth-focused organization, founded in 1960, began with a focus on civil rights but later came to focus on opposition to the Vietnam War.
Students for a Democratic Society
Term for the branch of the civil rights movement that emphasized black pride and self-reliance.
Black Power
The CIA forced out the socialist Allende and established the military dictator Pinochet in this nation.
Chile