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Setbacks of the United States included:

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Sputnik and the U-2 incident

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Was Kennedy democratic or republican?

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Democratic

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Was Nixon democratic or republican?

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Republican

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Two factors that help Kennedy win presidency:

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TV and civil rights issue

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Kennedy was the ______________ youngest president in the nations history

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Second

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What advantage did Kennedy have on the first televised debate?

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He was comfortable in front of the camera and could speak better

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When Martin Luther King, which candidate ignored the problem?

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Nixon

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When Martin Luther King, which candidate tried to help the problem?

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Kennedy

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Because he helped Martin Luther kings family, he won the vote of what population?

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Blacks

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What did the Kennedy’s bring to the White House?

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Elegance

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Kennedy’s wife

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Jacqueline

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Name of the journalist group and advisors

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The best and the brightest

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Which adviser did he rely on the most?

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His brother Robert

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What did this reliable adviser receive the job as?

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Attorney general

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What did Kennedy focus on?

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Cold War

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What was Kennedy’s most urgent task?

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Redefine the nations nuclear strategy

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What did Kennedy’s advisors come up with to remove the threat of the use of nuclear arms?

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Flexible response

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What did Kennedy increase the spending of?

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Defense- such as troops, ships and artillery

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The 35th president of the United States who won praise for his well crafted speech

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John F. Kennedy

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Did the first test of Kennedys foreign-policy come in

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Cuba

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Revolutionary leader of Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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Castro gained power with the promise of _____________

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Democracy

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Fidel Castro let a guerrilla movement to topple dictator who

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Fulgencio Batista

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Where did Castro break up

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Commercial farms

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Who did Cuba rely increasingly on

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Soviet union

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26
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10% of Cuba’s population went into _________

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Exile

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In March 1960, President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly do what

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Secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba

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What did they hope that The result of the secret training would do

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Overthrow Castro

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29
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The island on which US military landed

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Bay of pigs

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30
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What failed after they landed at bay of pigs

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An airstrike

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What did Kennedy do with Castro to release the surviving commanders

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Tried to give him $53 million

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Since the Soviet union and Cuba were closely allied together, the Soviet union gave Cuba what?

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Missiles

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What would a missile attack from Cuba trigger

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An all out attack on the Soviet union

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What did Kennedy set up in the ocean

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A naval blockade

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Khrushchev offered to remove the missiles in return for what

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American pledge not to invade Cuba

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What did many exiles blame the Democrats for doing

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Losing Cuba

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What was one goal that Kennedy gad through the Cuban missile crisis

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Proving to Khrushchev is the determination to contain communism

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38
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Concrete wall tile that severed the city in two

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Berlin Wall

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Kennedy’s determination in America superior nuclear strike empowered prevented crew ships from closing what

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The air and land routes between West Berlin in West Germany

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What aggravated Cold War tensions more

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The Berlin wall

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A dedicated phone enabled the 2 Leaders of the countries to communicate in case another crisis arises

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Hotline

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Barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere

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Limited test ban treaty

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First American to go into space

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Alan Shepard

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The vision that Kennedy had to be new pioneers and to explore science and space

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The new frontier

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Kennedy had the same trouble as who, when trying to get ideas passed?

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Truman

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A clear indication that voters approved of his plans

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Mandate

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Why did Kennedy lack a popular mandate

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He was elected by the slimmest of margins

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In what ways did Kennedy persuade congress to enact measures?

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By boosting the economy, building a national defense, providing international aid, and funding a massive space program

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What was one domestic problem that the Kennedy team tackled?

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The economy

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What did Kennedy’s advisors push for the use of?

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Deficit spending

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What was minimum wage raised to ?

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$1.25

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The first campaign promise that Kennedy fulfilled

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Peace corps

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A program kid volunteer assistance to the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

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Peace corps

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What did United States call the peace corps

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Kennedys Kiddie Korps

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Whydid the US called the peace corps that name

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Because the volunteers in it were just out of college

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The second foreign aid program

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Alliance for progress

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Offered economic and technical assistance to African American countries

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Alliance for progress

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How much money was invested into Latin America

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$12 billion

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Why did the United States invest money into Latin America

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To deter these countries from picking up Fidel Castro revolutionary ideas

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Soviet cosmonaut that was first in space

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Yuri A. Gagarin

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Communication satellite that relayed live television pictures across the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Europe

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Telstar

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Who took the first steps on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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Results of the space program

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Universities expanded their science programs

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What was happening in the South during the space race

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Segregation

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After the space race was over Kennedy started focusing more on what

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The African-Americans

66
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Where was JFK killed shut

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Dallas Texas

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Where was Kennedy shot

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In The head

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Who killed Kennedy

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald

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Jack Ruby

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Where was Lyndon B. Johnson elected in the office

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Air Force One

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They investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president were acting on his own

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The Warren commission

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What is an explanation to Oswald killing Kennedy

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A plot by anti-Castro Cubans, to a communist sponsored attack, to a conspiracy by the CIA

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Succeeded to the presidency, his ambition and drive has become legendary

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Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Did Lyndon grow up

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Texas

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Where did Johnson serve in the government before he became president

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The US House of Representatives

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Who did Johnson idolize

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Kennedy

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After he was in the House of Representatives where did he serve

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Senate

78
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The voting rights measure that was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction

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Civil rights act of 1957

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What did Congress pass in February 1964

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A tax reduction of over 10 billion into law

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What did the tax cuts spur

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Economic growth

81
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Persuading southern senators to stop blocking its passage. If prohibited discrimination based on race religion natural origins and sex and granted the federal government new powers to enforce its provisions

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Civil rights act of 1964

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The approving of nearly $1 billion for youth programs, anti-poverty measures, small business loans, and job training

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Economic opportunity act

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What did the EOA legislation create

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Job corps youth training program, Vista, Headstart, the community action program

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Who was the 1964 election against

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Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Johnson

85
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What did Barry Goldwater believe

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The government had no business trying to write social and economic wrong

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Who won the 1964 election

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Lyndon B. Johnson

87
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Legislation program that would create not only a higher standard of living in equal opportunity, but also promote a richer quality of life

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Great Society

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Provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase text books and new library materials

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And secondary education act of 1965

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Provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older

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Medicare

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Extended health insurance to welfare recipients

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Medicaid

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Shifted the nation’s political power from rural to urban areas

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Department of housing and urban development

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The first African Americancabinet member in American history

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Robert Weaver

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These Alex is stab list them a Gratian quotas the discriminated strongly against people from outside western Europe

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The immigration act of 1924 on the national origins act of 1924

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Open the door for many non-European immigrants to settle in the United States but ending quotas based on nationality

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Immigration act of 1965

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Book written by Rachel Carson

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Silent Spring

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Client states to clean up rivers and to search out the worst chemical polluters known

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Water quality act of 1965

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A truth in the packaging law that set standards for labeling consumer goods

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Wholesome meat act of 1967

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Ruled under school segregation unconstitutional

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Brown versus Board of Education

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Chief justice during the Brown versus Board of Education

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Earl Warren

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Banned prayer in public schools and declared state required loyalty oath unconstitutional

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Warren court

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The way in which states redraw election districts based on the changes number of people in them

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Reapportionment

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The first of several decisions that established the principle of one person one vote

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Baker v. Carr

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Extended the principle of one person one vote to state legislative districts

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Reynolds v. Sims

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Court ruled the evidence seized it legally cannot be used in state courts

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Mapp v. Ohio

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Justices required criminal courts to provide free legal counsel to those who could not afford it

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Gideon versus Wainwright

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This is rolled under an accused person has a right to have a lawyer present during police questioning

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Escobedo v. Illinois

107
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Ruled that all suspects must be read their rights before questioning

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Miranda versus Arizona

108
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The great Society contributed to a growing what

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Budget deficit

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