Political change 1960-2000

Question 1

New Frontier

Answer 1

Kennedy’s reform policies in the 1960’s

Improve life of Americans specifically Black Americans and people from low income families

Question 2

Why was there lots of oppostion in 1960’s congress?

Answer 2

Kennedy only won by a very narrow margin

Question 3

What did Congress think of Kennedy?

Answer 3

too young and inexperienced

politicians from the south didn’t like his support for civil rights

protestant politicians didn’t trust him as he was Catholic and saw his proposals as too extereme

Question 4

What result did having little support in congress lead to for Kennedy?

Answer 4

many of his Bills were not passed while he was alive

Question 5

Kennedy’s medicare

Answer 5

1961 Kennedy started looking at free healthcare for people over 65

in 1962 his proposal was blocked by Congress

Eventually passed in 1965

Question 6

what was minimum wage raised to?

Answer 6

increased minimum wage to 1.25 an hour
by KENNEDY

Question 7

1961 Housing Act

Answer 7

helped improve living condition by providing cheap loans for developers to build better housing

Question 8

1962 Manpower development and training act

Answer 8

helped people get jobs without training
KENNEDY

Question 9

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

Answer 9

First Black SC justice
hired by KENNEDY

Question 10

When was Kennedy assasinated?

Answer 10

22 November 1963

Question 11

Who took over for Kennedy after he was assasinated?

Answer 11

Johnson
(Kennedy’s Vice President)`

Question 12

What was the name of Johnson’s reform programme?

Answer 12

The Great Society

Question 13

Aims of the GREAT SOCIETY

Answer 13

to create a country in which living standards were high

decalared ‘war’ on poverty and wanted to put an end to racial discrimination

Question 14

When was Johnson President?

Answer 14

1963-68

Question 15

Why did Johnson have an advantage being from Texas?

Answer 15

he was able to handle southern democrats opinion (unlike Kennedy)

Question 16

Civil Rights Act 1964

Answer 16

passed by Johnson

made discimination in public places, education and employment illegal

Question 17

Voting Rights Act 1965

Answer 17

literacy tests abolished

every state to have same voting requirements

Question 18

Johnson’s Medicare and Medicaid

Answer 18

provided basic hospital and medical insurance for people aged 65 and older

helped to desegregate medical treatment

Question 19

How much did Johnsons Medicare and Medicaid cost to establish?

Answer 19

10 billion USD

Question 20

How many people signed up for mediacre/ medicaid in 1965

Answer 20

19 million

Question 21

1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Answer 21

passed by Johnson

aim was to make the standard of education between different states more equal.

Question 22

What did Johnson raise the minimum wage to?

Answer 22

$1.40 an hour

Question 23

What was the Model Cities Program

Answer 23

1966/ Johnson
provide funding to replace or improve poor quality housing

Question 24

What oppositions were there to the GREAT SOCIETY?

Answer 24

republicans still believed in rugged individualism
- said Johnson spent too much on Welfare

Vietnam War

Question 25

Why did Civil Rights campaigners critisise Johnson?

Answer 25

not doing more to tackle problems
(especially afte race riots in 1967)

Question 26

Who was elected in 1968?

Answer 26

President Nixon

Question 27

When did Nixon govern?

Answer 27

1968-74

Question 28

Why was Nixon forced to resign?

Answer 28

Watergate Scandal

Question 29

‘Tricky Dicky’

Answer 29

Nixon’s nickname as he used ‘dirty tricks’ to beat his rivals

Question 30

CREEP

Answer 30

committee to Re-Elect the President

Question 31

How much money did CREEP provide to its members?

Answer 31

$350,000
(to do whatever was thought neccesary to make sure Nixon won election)

Question 32

What happend June 1972

Answer 32

5 members of CREEP arrested for breaking in to Watergate’s office.

Caught trying to fix surveillance devices to enable Nixon to know what his opponents were planning

Question 33

What did Nixon do to cover up Watergate scandal?

Answer 33

met advisers and discussed:

how they could stop FBI from investigating CREEP

and offer money to burgalers to keep quiet about who they had been working for

Question 34

Why was Nixons attempt to cover up the Watergate Scandal a federal crime?

Answer 34

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Question 35

What majority did Nixon win in 1972?

Answer 35

49/50 states
over 60% of votes

LARGE MAJORITY

Question 36

Who is James McCord?

Answer 36

one of the convicted burgarlers

said that the White House had covered it up

Question 37

What did Nixon give the FBI in November 1973?

Answer 37

7/9 of the tapes that recorded his converstations

18 minutes was edited out of one of them

Question 38

What did Nixon give the FBI in April 1974?

Answer 38

All of the tapes (unedited) that recorded his conversations in the Oval office

REVEALED HIS INVOLVEMENT

Question 39

When did Nixon resign?

Answer 39

August 1974

Question 40

Why did Nixon resign?

Answer 40

To avoid impeachment

Question 41

Was Nixon criminally charged for the Watergate Scandal?

Answer 41

No
Ford Pardoned him