The Kennedy Years with a focus on Civil Rights

Question 1

All of the following Supreme Court cases expanded individual rights EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 2

During what event did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?

Accepted Answer

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Question 3

Who was the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court? (appointed in 1964)

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 4

President John Kennedy demonstrated his support for the Civil Rights Movement when he did what?

Accepted Answer

Ordered federal troops to desegregate Univ. of Mississippi

Question 5

What were the findings of the Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of JFK?

Accepted Answer

Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin

Question 6

1960 Election, what was used for the first time that created greater citizen participation?

Accepted Answer

Four television debates

Question 7

What was a major program of the "New Frontier" proposed by President Kennedy in 1961?

Accepted Answer

Landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade

Question 8

Whose writings and actions inspired MLK & other Civil Rights activists?

Accepted Answer

Jesus, Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi

Question 9

JFK made a positive presidential candidate in 1960 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

He promised to go back to the way things were the 1950's

Question 10

Even though their tactics were different, what was similar about CORE, SNCC, SCLC, and NAACP?

Accepted Answer

Each supported the end of segregation

Question 11

The focus of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech was his belief that...

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights are guaranteed to all Americans

Question 12

Which 1896 Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board of Education reverse in 1954?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 13

What was the slogan/motto of Civil Rights activists in the 1950's and 1960's?

Accepted Answer

"We shall overcome"

Question 14

All of the following were Civil Rights organizations in the 1950's and 1960's EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 15

The Peace Corps (1961) was established by President Kennedy in an effort to provide what?

Accepted Answer

Support to under-developed nations of the world

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