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New Frontier and Great Society
New Frontier and Great Society
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Which of the following was not a part of Johnson's Great Society Program?
Equal Opportunity Act
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Wilderness Preservation Act
2
The competition between the Soviets and US to see who could be the first to make it to space.
Space Race
New Frontier
Cold War
NASA
3
Who were the first two candidates to have their presidential debates televised?
Johnson & Nixon
Kennedy & Nixon
Eisenhower & McCarthy
Kennedy & Johnson
4
Which of the following was not a case decided by the Warren Court?
Plessy v Ferguson
Miranda v Arizona
Brown vs Board
Gideon v Wainwright
5
True or false: Kennedy's family was not very politically influential.
False
True
6
Which of the following is not a piece of Great Society Civil Rights legislation?
24th Amendment
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Higher Education Act
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True or False: The election of 1960 was between John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
True
False
8
Who is the man who started a revolution in 1958 in Cuba and created a communist government?
Joseph Stalin
Fidel Castro
Kim Jong Il
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Who was the accused assassin of John F Kennedy?
Lyndon Johnson
Jack Ruby
Nikita Khrushchev
Lee Harvey Oswald
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What is the name given to Kennedy's legislative policies?
Warren Commission
Great Society
Cold War
New Frontier
11
This program was called the "Latin American Marshall Plan"
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Panama Canal Project
Cuban Revolution
12
What event almost led to the Cold War becoming at "hot war" during Kennedy's administration?
Alliance for Progress
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Crisis
13
This law increased funding for public schools, created special education centers, etc.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Higher Education Act
GI Bill
Race to the Top
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This law's purpose was to prevent discrimination when voting.
Economic Opportunity Act
13th Amendment
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
15
How did President Kennedy die?
Assassinated
He's still alive
Hit by a Car
Died of Polio
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This Great Society program created a health care program for the elderly.
Social Security
Medicaid
Medicare
Economic Development Act
17
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Who said this?
Robert Kennedy
John F Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
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What is the name of the investigation of the Kennedy Assassination?
Johnson Commission
Watergate
Blackwater
Warren Commission
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What piece of legislation ordered an end to gender discrimination in the workplace?
Civil Rights Act
Economic Opportunity Act
Equal Pay Act
Warren Court
20
Invasion during Kennedy’s administration in Cuba that was a huge failure.
Berlin Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Battle of Manila Bay
Cuban Missile Crisis
21
Kennedy’s presidency was referred to by most people as:
Heaven
Camelot
New Frontier
Corrupt
22
This was the result of the Berlin Crisis.
End of the Cold War
Kennedy Assassination
Unification of Berlin
Building the Berlin Wall
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Which of the following was not a characteristic of JFK?
He was a veteran
He was Catholic
He was young
He had no political background
24
This individual served as John F Kennedy's Attorney General.
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Bobby Kennedy
Ted Kennedy