Lesson 2: "Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights"

Question 1

Freedom Riders

Answer 1

In which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South

Question 2

March on Washington

Answer 2

A massive demonstration for civil rights

Question 3

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 3

The act which banned segregation in public places and also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin

Question 4

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 4

This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights

Question 5

Great Society

Answer 5

President Johnson’s program of domestic reforms

Question 6

Black Power

Answer 6

A movement in which was called for African American independence

Question 7

John F. Kennedy (JFK)

Answer 7

Won the election of 1960
First Roman Catholic to become president
Assassinated November 22, 1963

Question 8

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 8

JFK’s Vice President

Sworn in as president after John F. Kennedy died

Question 9

What was the New Frontier Program?

Answer 9

~Higher minimum wage
~Tax cuts
~New programs to help poor and unemployed Americans

Question 10

The Fight for Rights Continues facts

Answer 10

• Core: Congress of Racial Equality
• Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in 1963 for marching without a permit
• MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” explained his commitment to nonviolence
• Eugene “Bull” Connor ordered his officers to blast the marchers with high pressured water hoses