Civil Rights
Which supreme court case declared “Separate but equal” unconstitutional in schools?
Brown V Board
•What was the name of LBJ’s social program aimed at correcting poverty in America?
•(Hint: He wants to be compared to the New Deal)
The Great Society
•Nixon signed what act that regulated America’s impact on the environment?
The EPA
•Which event kicked off 1968 with a massive offensive by the North Vietnamese, convincing Americans that we were not winning the war?
Tet offensive
•What was the title of Rachel Carson’s environmentalist novel designed to point out the dangers of DDT?
Silent Spring
Which president issued an executive order to integrate the military?
Truman
•Which two social programs that LBJ created funded healthcare for the Elderly and Poor?
Medicare & Medicaid
•What was Nixon’s foreign policy goal?
To re-establish foreign relations with China/Russia and pull America out of the Vietnam War
•Whose assassination marked the end of nonviolence and the rise of the Black Panther movement?
MLK Jr.
•Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta led a Latino rights movement designed to get fair wages and humane working conditions for farmers called what?
The UFW (United Farm Workers)
Which act declared discrimination based on race in all public places in the United States?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
•What group did title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accidently help by targeting equality in the workplace?
Women
•What was the name of the event where Richard Nixon hired 5 men to break into the DNC headquarters and plant wiretaps and listening devices to steal Democratic secrets?
Watergate
•Who refused to run for office a second time, rendering the Democrat party without a frontrunner to face Nixon in the coming election?
LBJ
•Which group fought for equal wages, equality in the workplace, abortion rights, and federally funded daycare?
NOW
Which act made it illegal to discriminate at the voting polls based on race?
The Voting Rights Act
•Which social program created by LBJ created funding for early childhood education and public broadcasting?
•(Daycare, PBS, sesame street)
Head Start
•To avoid impeachment, what did Nixon do at the last minute?
Resign
•Whose assassination ruined the Democrats last effort at winning the presidency against Nixon in the election of 1968?
RFK
•Who became president and granted Nixon a full pardon, absolving him of his crimes?
Gerald Ford
Which organization planned and executed sit-ins, freedom rides, and other civil rights protests throughout the 1960’s?
•Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
•SNCC
Despite all of his social accomplishments, what is LBJ primarily remembered for?
The Vietnam War
How did Nixon improve relations with the Soviets?
Signed a nuclear treaty
•Which event disgraced America’s reputation as a democratic nation by broadcasting footage of riot police and national guard units beating anti-war protesters in front of a government building?
DNC riots
•MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” was a response to Alabama clergy members where he defended what method?
Nonviolent protest