APUSH - Ch 38 Quiz

Question 1

What did Kennedy first do?

Answer 1

Launch a New Frontier

Question 2

What did Kennedy’s domestic program address? (4)

Answer 2

education, health care, and equal employment opportunities

also a more vigorous space program

Question 3

what raises Cold War tensions and exposes the nature of Soviet hegemony?

Answer 3

the soviet’s decision to build the Berlin Wall

Question 4

What is the bay of pigs invasion

Answer 4

JFK’s failed attempt to help Cuban exiles bring down Castro’s regime

Question 5

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 5

standoff that brought superpowers close to a military confrontation, but was avoided

Question 6

what is a struggling problem within the governments?

Answer 6

the struggle for racial equality

Question 7

who wins the victory in the election of 1964?

who was against him?

Answer 7

Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) *also took over after Kennedy assassination *

Barry Goldwater

Question 8

Great Society

what did it do?

Answer 8

designed to address poverty and a multitude of other societal problems and to promote racial justice

it brought dramatic reform

Question 9

what two key civil rights bills passed despite efforts by southern congressmen?

Answer 9

the 1964 Civil Rights Act

the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Question 10

The 1960s is a turning point for the civil rights movement for…. (4)

Answer 10

blacks
women
Native Americans
gays

Question 11

what religion do many turn to?

Answer 11

Christian Fundamentalism

Question 12

Freedom Riders

Answer 12

organized mixed-race groups who rode interstate buses deep into the South to draw attention to and protest racial segregation

Question 13

March on Washington

Answer 13

massive civil rights demonstration in August 1963 in support of Kennedy’s backed-legislation to secure legal protections for American blacks

Question 14

Civil Rights act of 1964

Answer 14

federal law that banned racial discrimination in public affairs and strengthened the federal government’s power to fight segregation in schools

Question 15

Affirmative Action

Answer 15

program designed to redress historic racial and gender imbalances in jobs and education

Question 16

Freedom Summer

Answer 16

a voter registration drive in Mississippi spearheaded by a collaboration of civil rights groups

Question 17

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 17

legislation pushed through congress by pres. LBJ that prohibited ballot-denying tactics, such as literary tests and d

Question 18

Black Panther Party

Answer 18

organization of armed black militants formed in Oakland, California, in 1966 to protect black rights discrimination

Question 19

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (2)

Answer 19

a campus-based political organization founded in 1961 by Tom Hayden that became an iconic representation of the New Left

supported civil rights, antipoverty, and antiwar movements during the 1960s