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What schools did JFK attend?

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—-He attended Harvard—-

He also attened Choate Boarding School.

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What was special about JFK’s religion?

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He was the only Roman Catholic president

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Who is Jackie Bouvier?

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JFK’s wife

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What did JFK say concerning religion and it’s place in politics?

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It will not affect his administration

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Why was the election of 1960 so crazy?

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It was the closest election sonce 1884. Kennedy defeated Nixon by fewer than 119,000 votes

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Who was Robert Kennedy?

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John’s brother, he was a politician from Massachusetts, He was attorney general during John’s administration.

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What was the Peace Corps all about?

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To promote world peace and friendship. Basically to help the peoples in other countries with trained manpower

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Who is Fidel Castro and why is he significant?

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The leader of Cuba, He declared Cuba communist and welcomed Russia aid

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What is the Crisis over Cuba?

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Cuba is going communist (Truman doctrine is failing)

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What is the Bay of Pigs about?

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CIA plan to get rid of Fidel Castro by giving exiles weapons to overthrow him. JFK is fully responsible

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What is the Cuban Missile Crisis about?

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American planes saw missile bases in Cuba. They could reach U.S. cities in minutes.
U.S. orders Naval Blockade in Cuba
U.S. wins no bombs launched

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What is a MRBM?

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A medium range ballistic missile. It was what American Planes saw in Cuba

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What is the deal with Nikita Kruschev?

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He throught the U.S. Naval Blockade was outright banditry. He promised to challenge it. In the end he dismantled the missle base when U.S. said they wouldn’t invade Cuba.

He was the USSR leader during the Cold War

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What was the Berlin wall about?

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The Wall divided the Capital Berlin into West Communist and east Democratic republican. JFK errected the wall

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This was the space project during JFK’s administration. He gave 25 million towards this project . It made it to the moon.

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The Apollo Project

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KENNEDY AND civil Rights?

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He proposed the Civil Rights act

But.. during his presidency he distanced himself from the civil rights movement because Congress was full of white southern democrats… ——–he was weak with Civil Rights—–

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When and where was JFK assasinated?

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He was assasinated Nov. 22 1963 in Dallas, over Civil rights stance. He was going to mend political fences.

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What did the Warren Commision do?

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It investigated the JFK assasination and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had shot the president.

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Who shot JFK?

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Lee Harvey Oswald

20
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Who is Jack Ruby?

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A night club owner who shot Oswald when he was being transferred between jails.

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Who is Lyndon Johnson?

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He was the vice president during JFK’s administration. And he became the president when JFK died.

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What did the 14th Amendment do?

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It —–made blacks citzens—-, granted equal protection and due process.

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What did the 15th amendment do?

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It prohibited each government of U.S. from denying a males ——-right to vote ——based on race, color. or previous condition of servitude

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Who started the KKK

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Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest

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What were the Jim Crow laws?

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They enforced the legal seperation of races throughout the U.S.

  • forbidding interacial marriage
  • forces businesses to keep clients seperate
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What is the Ku Klux Klan?

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They went on night rides in which they would intimidate blacks and lynch those they thought posed the greatest threat.

Made up of white supremacists

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What is lynching?

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The method in which blacks were beaten, tortured, mutilated, hanged, or burned alive without trial or legal process.

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What was the Plessy v. Ferguson outcome?

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U.S. Supreme acourt decision that upholds the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations under the doctrine if “ seperate but equal”

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Founder of the NAACP?

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W.E.B. Dubios

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What is the NAACP?

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National Associatio for the Advancement of Colored People.
It had the goal to ensure the political. educational, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination.

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What was the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education?

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It overturned the rulings of Plessy v. Ferguson.

It declared that state lwas that established separate public schools for black and white children denied black children equal educational opportunities.

Seperate education facilities are unequal

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Who is Emmett Till

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He was a 14 year old boy from Mississippi allegedly hitting on a white women. Then he was tortured and thrown in the river to die

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Who was Rosa Parks?

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A African American women arrested for violating the segregation laws of Alabama. She didn’t give up her seat.

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What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Started with Rosa Parks keeping her seat. The Next Monday Dr. MLK Jr. enforced a boycott of the city bus system.

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Who was Matin Luther King Jr. ?

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Bron Michale King
Grew Up in AltlantaGot doctorate from Boston College
Married Coretta Scott
Pastor at Baptist Chruch
Started Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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What is SCLC?

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Pushed for nonviolence and civil disobedience
It had the believe that churches should take the lead in political activism social ills.
MLK was the president of this group

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What was the Birmingham movement

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a movement having blacks openly break unfair laws to overflow city jails.

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What was the March on Washington?

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A march to promote jobs and freedom for blacks

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What was the greensboro movement (sit-ins)

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4 African American college students sat at the lunch counter and demanded to be served. The following days they kept bringing more friends. It started the student phase of the Civil Rights movement

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What was the Snicks?

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The Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee.
It organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters to protest Jim Crow Laws.
Sit-ins everywhere
Happened due to aftermath of Greensboro

It starts orginized voter registration all over the South.

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Who was Maclom X?

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A Civil Rights leader who preached change through any means necessary.

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What was the Civil Rights Act 1964?

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It prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national orgin by federal and state governments as well as some public places.j

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Who were the Black Panthers?

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A militant group with the idea that violent revolution was the only way to achieve black liberation.

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