Sixties

Question 1

JFK’s Great Society

Answer 1

Primary Goals

• Use federal government to enhance social welfare
• Use education and job training to help disadvantaged people overcome cycle of poverty limiting their opportunities

Question 2

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 2

• Ended segregation in public places
• Banned employment discrimination based on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origins
• First proposed by JFK, signed by LBJ

Question 3

Voting Rights Act of 1964

Answer 3

• Signed by LBJ
• Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented AAs from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment
• Banned the use of literacy tests
• Provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50% of the nonwhite population had not registered to vote
• Authorized US AG to investigate use of poll taxes in state and local elections
• Gave AA voters the legal means to challenge voting restrictions and vastly improved voter turnout

Question 4

Medicare (1965)

Answer 4

• Health insurance program for elderly Americans

Question 5

Medicaid (1965)

Answer 5

• State and federally funded program that offers health coverage to certain low-income people

Question 6

Montgomery Bus Boycot (1955-1956)

Answer 6

• 1955, Rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat to a White passenger
• Helped galvanize the bus boycott led by Dr. King

Question 7

Sit-ins Greensboro, NC (1960)

Answer 7

• Students staged the first sit-ins in Greensboro
• Protested segregation in public facilities
• Example of nonviolent civil disobedience