Chapter 29: The Civil Rights Era Question Preview (ID: 42437)
Section 2: Kennedy Johnson.
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Name the program that was established to provide preschool education for the children of poor families?
a) Upward Bound
b) Job Corps
c) Head Start
d)
What was Kennedy's NEW FRONTIER plan?
a) a group of people to travel across the United States reporting social injustice
b) a group of rules for society
c) a group of proposals involving social programs
d)
Who promised new programs to GET THE COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN?
a) Richard M. Nixon
b) John F. Kennedy
c) Dwight D. Eisenhower
d)
Which young senator wrote the book PROFILES IN COURAGE?
a) Dwight D. Eisenhower
b) Richard M. Nixon
c) John F. Kennedy
d)
Who was the vice president that pledged to continue the policies of President Eisenhower?
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Richard M. Nixon
c) George W. Bush
d)
Who won the 1960 Presidential Election?
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Richard M. Nixon
c) Lyndon B. Johnson
d)
What is John F. Kennedy's middle name?
a) Franklin
b) Fitzgerald
c) Fabian
d)
What was the name of the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy?
a) Lee Harvey Oswald
b) John Wilkes Booth
c) Marcus Junius Brutus
d)
define MEDICAID
a) helps pay for medical care for senior citizens
b) helps poor people pay their hospital bills
c) another name for a doctor in times of war
d)
What was the purpose of the job corps?
a) helped poor students attend college
b) to offer training to young people who wanted to work
c) domestic peace corps of citizens working in poor neighborhoods
d)
What are 3 proposals that Kennedy asked Congress to act on?
a) additional federal funds for education, establish the Department of Housing, Medicaid
b) pledge to continue the policies of Eisenhower, federal funds for education, medicare
c) additional federal funds for education, assist poor people to obtain jobs, guarantee of civil rights for all individuals
d)
define MEDICARE
a) another name for a doctor in times of war
b) helps poor people pay their hospital bills
c) helps pay for medical care for senior citizens
d)
define POVERTY LINE
a) the minimum income needed to survive
b) an area of a city separating the poor and wealthy
c) a line of poor people waiting to be feed (also called a bread line)
d)
What is the name of the act that prohibited discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public accomodations?
a) Civil Rights Act of 1964
b) Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's
c) Civil Rights Era 1954-1973
d)
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