USH9 Time of Change

The law creating the expressway system was passed while Eisenhower was president.

The Warren Commission said the Kennedy assassination was the work of one man.

Malcolm X believed Black people should pursue their rights "by any means necessary."

The governor of Arkansas supported the integration of Little Rock High School.

The Viet Cong were members of the North Vietnamese Army and wore uniforms.

Historical events become less clear as time goes by.

President Eisenhower used the National Guard to get the Black students into Little Rock High School.

The growth of suburbs made cities wealthier and more diverse

One lesson of the Vietnam war is that the US should try to send as few soldier as possible into a war.

Many rock musicians in the 60s used their music to spread their values.

Hippies believed that sex should only be enjoyed within the institution of marriage.

Rock and roll music created a generation gap between teenagers and their parents.

Black students at Little Rock High School were not harassed in any way.

Lee Harvey Oswald is in jail today.

The post war president that got the most done was Kennedy.

Civil Disobedience is the practice of secretly breaking laws.

Boycotts were an effective method of protest during the Civil Rights Movement.

Expressways allowed people to move out of the cities to live in suburbs.

When he was shot, Kennedy's head went forward and to the right.

When Black college students sat at lunch counters in Nashville, the people who beat them were arrested.

The United States became involved in Vietnam because the country was a major trade partner of the US.

For the Sixties counter culture, wild clothing was a way to rebel.

Truman's program of reform was called the Great Society.

Rock and Roll music was created originally by black artists.

Of the four post-war presidents, Eisenhower was the only Democrat.

Because of jet engines, people began to live and vacation farther from the places they were born.

Because of jet engines, air travel became more expensive.

Almost all young people used drugs in the late 1960s.

Early television promoted the idea that all people were equal regardless of gender or skin color.