Chapter 29 Quiz: HIST-1302

From the beginning of his presidency, Kennedy vigorously supported black civil rights.

False

Jack Ruby was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy, but doubts about his guilt linger.

False

President Johnson was not as adept at handling Congress as President Kennedy had been.

False

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

Great Society.

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed:

Martin Luther King Jr.

The first African American cabinet member was:

Robert C. Weaver.

Johnson's Great Society programs helped reduce the number of people living in poverty.

True

Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was called the Great Society.

True

The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:

a U.S.-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons.

By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what they termed:

black power.

President Johnson's first priority on the domestic front was to:

break the logjam in Congress that had blocked Kennedy's legislative efforts.

The Cuban missile crisis:

brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war.

In his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.:

declared his willingness to break unjust laws.

The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to:

deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965:

dramatically expanded black votes in the South.

In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:

erecting the Berlin Wall.

In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:

generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans.

Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson:

genuinely cared about the disadvantaged in society.

The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:

government guarantee of full employment.

Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:

his elegant and inspiring rhetoric.

Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:

occurred largely in urban areas.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

outlawed segregation in public facilities.

Richard Nixon:

possessed a shrewd intelligence and a compulsive love for combative politics.

Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on:

poverty.

During the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:

promised to pursue a "new frontier."

Changes in immigration law in 1965:

removed quotas based on national origin.

Malcolm X:

said blacks should be proud of their African heritage.

When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace:

stood aside.

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

the University of Mississippi.

All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:

the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen.

The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:

the sit-in.

The result of the 1960 election:

was a narrow victory for Kennedy.

Kennedy's legislative program:

was largely blocked by conservatives in Congress.