U.S. History Chapter 27 Review Questions
All the following promised to seek peace in Vietnam except _________________.
Curtis LeMay
The presidential candidate of the American Independent party in 1968 was _________________.
George Wallace
What relationship did Al Smith have to the 1960 campaign for president?
He was the last Catholic to run for president.
In the election of 1968: _________________
Hubert Humphrey was the democratic candidate for president
In the election of 1964 ________________.
Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide.
Who was assassinated in 1965?
Malcolm X
The philosophy of "militant nonviolence" was best seen in the work of _______________.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate ____________
Ole Miss
Lyndon B Johnson was from __________.
Texas
Lyndon Johnson was from _____________.
Texas
Robert F Kennedy served as Kennedy's ___________.
attorney general
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution __________________.
authorized the president to take whatever means were necessary to defend American forces and prevent further Communist aggression.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court
confirmed the obligation of police to inform arrested suspects of their rights before questioning.
The health insurance bill passed by Congress in 1965 _________________.
created Medicaid to help cover medical payments for the indigent.
Faced with the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy _____________________.
ordered a naval blockade of Cuba
The Bay of Pigs incident ___________________.
resulted in the capture of 1,100 men
Malcolm X __________________
said blacks should be proud of their African heritage.
The Watts riot ___________________
signaled a new phase in the civil rights movement.
The protest tactic intiated by African American students in Greensboro, North Carolina was _____________.
sit-ins
One of the biggest legislative accomplishments of the Kennedy administration came in the field of ________.
tariff reduction
Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, several steps were taken to ease Soviet-American tensions. These included all the following except:
the halting of construction on the Berlin Wall for several years.
During the campaign of 1964, candidate Barry Goldwater proposed _______________.
the sale of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Immigration Act of 1965 _____________.
treated all nationalities equally.
The civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 _____________.
dramatically expanded black votes in the South.
The civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 ______________________.
dramatically expanded black votes in the South.
President Kennedy's cabinet appointments
emphasized youth
Operation "Rolling Thunder" was the:
first sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
The 1963 March on Washington _______________.
was the largest civil rights demonstration in American history.
The March on Washington _______________.
was the largest civil rights demonstration in American history.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago _____________
• boosted the candidacy of Hubert Humprey • showed the unlimited patience of Mayor Daley and the Chicago police • resulted in massive rioting in the streets • *is correctly represented by all of the above statements*
