Chapter 10 part 4

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One reason John F. Kennedy's assassination deeply affected people was because he

had represented a hope for a better future.

President Johnson's success in passing many of former President Kennedy's programs was due in part to

his experience and skill as a politician.

The organizers of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom were

trying to build support for the civil rights movement.

The success of sit-ins throughout the South led to the formation of the

SNCC.

James Earl Ray

assassinated Martin Luther King

The doves were

people who opposed the Vietnam War.

Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty" in America began with the passage of

the Economic Opportunity Act.

The Berlin Wall was constructed so

East Germans could no longer escape to freedom.

The hawks were

people who supported the Vietnam War.

Lyndon B. Johnson's political views were most similliar to

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

At the 1968 Democratic National Convention, protesters demanded

an end to the war in Vietnam.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

banned discrimination in employment and public housing.

Black Power was a movement that

called for African Americans to rely on themselves to achieve change.

The ground war in Vietnam was so difficult to fight because

civilians often joined the Vietcong and US soldiers could not identify the enemy.

Public universities in Mississippi and Alabama were only integrated after

federal courts ordered states to integrate their higher education facilities.


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