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Civil Rights Movement
President Kennedy
President Johnson
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
100
best-known African American radical activist
Who is MALCOLM LITTLE (MALCOLM X)
100
Man who assassinated Kennedy (officially)....
Who is LEE HARVEY OSWALD
100
State President Johnson was from.
What is TEXAS
100
Racial separation imposed by law.
What is de jure segregation
100
35TH President of the U.S. Also the youngest President.
Who is JOHN F. Kennedy
200
Term coined by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael
What is BLACK POWER
200
President Kennedy’s vision for America.
What is THE NEW FRONTIER
200
From his time in Congress, Johnson was known for his skills in ____
What is COMPROMISE
200
Military strategy relying on both traditional and specialized units.
What is FLEXIBLE RESPONSE
200
36th U.S. President of the U.S.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
300
This group attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots.
What is the KERNER COMMISSION
300
John F. Kennedy’s opponent in 1960.
Who is RICHARD NIXON
300
President Johnson’s social welfare plan.
What is THE GREAT SOCIETY
300
Program to provide basic health care to poor and disabled Americans.
What is Medicaid
300
Schools in what area most benefited from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
What is Cities
400
Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
What is BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
400
Strategy used by President Kennedy to improve the economy
What is DEFICIT SPENDING
400
Group that investigated Kennedy’s assassination during Johnson's term as President.
What is the WARREN COMMISSION
400
The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as _____.
What is BLOODY SUNDAY
400
Nearly forty countries ended above ground nuclear tests as a result of this Treaty.
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
500
What civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?
What is the NAACP
500
President Kennedy's program known as _____ provided economic assistance to Latin American countries.
What is THE ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS
500
The first program in President Johnson's "Great Society" was what?
What is the Economic Opportunity Act
500
Bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes.
What is THE FREEDOM RIDES
500
Employment practices became fairer after Kennedy passed this legislation through Congress.
What is the Equal Pay Act?