Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 1

The Great Society

Answer 1

Medicare and Medicaid, social security, head start vpk, food stamps, pollution control, housing and urban development

Question 2

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 2

Full legal equality for African Amercians, signed by LBJ in memory of JFK shortly after his assasination

Question 3

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 3

No poll taxes or literacy tests or any requirements to vote other than being an American Citizen over 21

Question 4

Freedom Summer

Answer 4

Full of racial violence because African Americans were still protesting for full voting rights

Question 5

Selma March ‘Bloody Sunday’

Answer 5

Civil rights leaders attacked by police, event was shown all over the news

Question 6

Black Power Movement

Answer 6

Preached fighting back, meet violence with violence

Question 7

Gulf of Tonkin

Answer 7

Communists in North Vietnam were shooting at our ships

Question 8

Imperial Presidency

Answer 8

The idea that presidents only act morally and do what is best for the country so they should be trusted with war time powers

Question 9

Bombing in Vietnam

Answer 9

Agent Orange (tactical herbicide blend) and Napalm destroy north Vietnam

Question 10

Protests

Answer 10

Hippies protest and Monk sets himself on fire

Question 11

Draft/Conscription

Answer 11

18 year olds being sent to fight and likely die, draft dodgers are arrested

Question 12

Tet Offensive

Answer 12

Successful North Vietnamese campaign that showed the U.S. was not winning the war, we look inferior to communist forces

Question 13

MLK, RFK, and Malcom X

Answer 13

Assassinated for political reasons