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