helping cover up a crime and obstructing justice

What did the Immigration Act of 1965 do?

Lifted old immigration restrictions & let more people enter.

Which of the following best sums up Johnson's Great Society?

Helping the poor and the Civil Rights Movement

Plessy vs. Ferguson ruled that

separate but equal was constitutional

What is the Peace Corps?

An organization created by JFK to do humanitarian work.

Freedom Riders wanted to

desegregate interstate bus travel

The War Powers Act was designed to

decrease the power of the president

A dove would be most likely to

Take place in a protest against the Vietnam war.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

Outlawed segregation in public places.

paid for returning soldiers to attend college

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1
The Watergate scandal led to the resignation of president
Kennedy
Johnson
Clinton
Nixon
2
Nixon was accused of
selling government secrets
burglary
helping cover up a crime and obstructing justice
murder
3
What did the Immigration Act of 1965 do?
Lifted old immigration restrictions & let more people enter.
Set new quotas for immigrants from Eastern Europe.
Excluded the Chinese from immigrating to the U.S.
Excluded Japanese immigration after WWII.
4
In ending the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy secretly agreed to take missiles out of
the Soviet Union
Cuba
Berlin
Turkey
5
Which of the following best sums up Johnson's Great Society?
Space Race and Peace Corps
Helping the poor and the Civil Rights Movement
Federal Highways and Containment
Vietnam and Korea
6
Which president asked for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Nixon
Johnson
7
Which of the following is an example of rebellion in the 1950s?
Rock-n-roll music
the Beat movement
All of these.
The Montgomery Bus boycott
8
What new concept in housing became the norm in the 1950s and 60s?
suburbs
apartments
communes
skyscrapers
9
Which of the following is not associated with the Black Power movement?
Black Panthers
community protection
nonviolence
pride in African heritage
10
By the 1960s, about what percent of the U.S. population had a television?
33%
75%
90%
25%
11
Plessy vs. Ferguson ruled that
public schools had to be segregated by race
public schools had to be desegregated
separate but equal was constitutional
separate but equal was unconstitutional
12
What is the Peace Corps?
An organization created by JFK to do humanitarian work.
Another name for groups of anti-war protesters.
Johnson's answer to Kennedy's Green Berets.
An international peace-keeping body, like the U.N.
13
Freedom Riders wanted to
desegregate schools
uphold Plessy vs. Ferguson
desegregate interstate bus travel
register voters in the South
14
Medicare helped
women
minorities
the elderly
the poor
15
The idea of countries falling to communism one after another is known as the
Domino Theory
Tet Offensive
Containment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
16
What kinds of jobs declined during the 1950s?
white collar
teaching
food industry
manufactering
17
Which of the following best describes Lyndon B. Johnson?
Experienced politician.
Inexperienced and young.
Racist and elitist.
War monger.
18
Who first used television as a powerful political tool?
Johnson
Kennedy
Nixon
Eisenhower
19
What kind of lifestyle was on the rise in the 50s in terms of spending?
communism
consumerism
buying on credit
saving and thrift
20
The War Powers Act was designed to
decrease the power of the Supreme Court
increase the power of the president
decrease the power of the president
officially declare war in Vietnam
21
Which of the following is the most accurate?
Malcolm X=Baptist
1950s=lots of cultural diversity in mainstream society
South Vietnam=communist
MLK=nonviolence
22
The Warren Commission concluded that
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
Lee Harvey Oswald was acting on orders from others
the Cubans killed Kennedy
the Soviets covered up the Kennedy assassination
23
Which of the following is segregation by law
de jure segregation
de facto segregation
de mama segregation
DiGiorno segregation (not delivery)
24
Revelations in the Pentagon Papers led to
more of a credibility gap
all of these
growing anti-Vietnam sentiment
distrust of the Johnson administration
25
The hot line
linked the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
eased Cold War tensions.
all of these <bling>
was for Kennedy and Kruschev.
26
Medicaid helped
minorities
the elderly
women
the poor
27
Two things that helped JFK win the 1960 election?
Youth and inexperience.
The wars in Vietnam and Korea.
Checkers speech and the U2 incident.
T.V. image and help to MLK.
28
Which was the first organized movement to fight segregation?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Brown vs. Board of Education case
The freedom riders
The March from Selma
29
A dove would be most likely to
Join the Black Panthers.
Join the military.
Encourage LBJ to run for reelection in 1968.
Take place in a protest against the Vietnam war.
30
Which of the following would be considered a hawk?
One who supported LBJ's efforts to win in Vietnam.
All of these.
One in favor of sending troops to Vietnam.
One in favor of fighting in Vietnam to contain communism.
31
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Made segregation illegal on interstate buses.
Ended segregation in housing.
Made it legal for African Americans to vote.
Outlawed segregation in public places.
32
The G.I. Bill
gave free housing to soldiers and their families
excluded young men from the draft
paid for returning soldiers to attend college
segregated black and white soldiers
33
Which of the following got the U.S. closest to nuclear war?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Building of the Berlin Wall
Kennedy Assassination
Bay of Pigs invasion

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