The 60s

Question 1

Democrat senator from new york was a catholic

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JFK

Question 2

Quaker from state of California

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Nixon

Question 3

JFK set out to implement a legislative agenda that was known as

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New Frontier

Question 4

The commission called for the federal action against gender discrimination and affirmed the right of women

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Presidential Commission on the Status of Women proposed Equal Pay Act

Question 5

Called for funding of research in developmental disabilities

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President’s Panel on Mental Retardation

Question 6

legislation provided grants to build research centers and grants to construct mental health centers

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Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963

Question 7

Began a camp at her home for disabled children became known as Camp Shriver

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Question 8

where were the 1st special Olympics games held at

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Chicago

Question 9

Method states use to draw up political districts based on changes on population

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Reapportionment

Question 10

Court case all citizens will have equal voting rights

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Reynolds vs Sims

Question 11

judicial requirement that laws may not treat individuals unfairly and courts must follow proper rules

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Due Process

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court ruled that a defendant in a state court had the right to a lawyer

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Gideon vs Wainwright

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court case would require authorities to inform suspects of their right to remain silent

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Miranda vs Arazona

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court case ruled that states cant compose official prayer and require prayers to be recited

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Engel vs Vitale

Question 15

court case ruled against state mandated Bible readings in public schools

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Abington School District vs Schempp

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program aimed at helping developing nations fight poverty

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peace corps

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first person to orbit the Earth (soviet)

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Yury Gagarin

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first american to orbit the Earth

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John Glenn

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most powerful rocket ever made

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Saturn V

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The men that were on Saturn V that left in Flordia

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Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Michael Collins

Question 21

lunar module that Armstrong and Aldrin went on

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Eagle

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First human to walk on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

Question 23

group of Cuban Exiles who CIA trained and armed

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La Brigada

Question 24

Kennedy and Khrushchev met where?

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Vienna, Austria

Question 25

symbol stood for cold war divisions

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Berlin wall

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exposed the soviets military inferiority and prompted a dramatic soviet arms build up

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Cuban missle crisis

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man accused of killing JFK

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Oswald

Question 28

person who killed oswald

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Ruby

Question 29

who took over when JFK died

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Lyndon B Johnston

Question 30

who concluded that oswald was a lone gunner

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judge warren

Question 31

raised in the hill country of texas

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Lyndon B Johnson

Question 32

act that attacked inadequate public services illiteracy and unemployment

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Economic Opportunity Act

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Provided work study programs to help the underprivileged earn a diploma

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Neighborhood Youth Corps

Question 34

offered tutoring to high school students

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upward bound

Question 35

Lyndon B Johnson's legislative agenda that offered medicare and medicade

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Great society

Question 36

created for disadvantaged children who never looked at a picture book or scribbled with a crayon

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project head start

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outlawed discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex or nationality

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civil rights act

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protect voters from racial discrimination in both voting and practices to bar those from voting

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voting rights act

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first black to serve in a presidential cabinet

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Weaver

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established new housing subsidy programs made federal loans

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housing and urban development act

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required all consumer products to have true and informal lables

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fair packaging and labeling act