U.S history final

Question 1

What impacted where middle class Americans lived in the 1950’s ( think specific transportation and where that took people)

Answer 1

Cars became popular and highways led people to the suburbs

Question 2

What did Plessy vs Ferguson and brown vs Board of Education establish?

Answer 2

P vs F established superate by equal in public schools
B vs B desegregation at public schools

Question 3

What was Martin Luther King fighting for?

Answer 3

Desegragation

Question 4

What method of fighting did MLK use?

Answer 4

Civil disobedience

Question 5

What were JFK goals when he came to office?

Answer 5

Civil rights, fight communism, boost economy

Question 6

What was the bay of bigs?

Answer 6

Cuban exiles attempting to end communism and attack at the bay of pigs

Question 7

What was the Berlin Wall?

Answer 7

Divided communist and non communist Germany

Question 8

What was peace corps?

Answer 8

Help people in other countries

Question 9

What was the goal of LJ great society?

Answer 9

Alleviate financial suffering and racial injustice

Question 10

What where JFK, LJ, and Nixon policies on Vietnam war?

Answer 10

JFK- not fully escalated
LJ- escalate U.S involvement
Nixon- gradually remove troops

Question 11

What were the causes of the civil rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Answer 11

Segregation of voting for African Americans

Question 12

What was the counterculture Movement?

Answer 12

Alternative lifestyle

Question 13

What was Equal Rights? Was it even passed?

Answer 13

Ban discrimination based on gender; it was never passed

Question 14

What is Reganomics?

Answer 14

Deregulating taxes and spending

Question 15

Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

Answer 15

Economic Crisis
Failed communist party

Question 16

Compare and contrast LJ to Reagan?

Answer 16

LBJ- great society
Civil rights act
War on poverty
Reagan- Reaganomics
Smaller government
Lower taxes

Question 17

How was Malcom X strategy different from MLK?

Answer 17

He is in favor of defending with violence

Question 18

What is JFK saying the U.S. will fight for?

Answer 18

human Rights

Question 19

What was the Boston Busing Crisis?

Answer 19

Forced busing in Boston areas that are segregated

Question 20

What conclusion can you draw from the Supreme Court cases of Plessy V Ferguson and Brown V board decision?

Answer 20

Supreme Court decisions can alter ALL American lives

Question 21

Why did Kennedy and the U.S. become involved in Cuba?

Answer 21

Castro created a Communist government

Question 22

Which event led to quick escalation of U.S troops in Vietnam?

Answer 22

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Question 23

Which act gave LJ the ability to escalate the U.S in Vietnam?

Answer 23

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 24

This supply line was used by the North Vietnamese and targeted by the U.S.

Answer 24

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 25

Which great society program gave elderly people government sponsored healthcare?

Answer 25

Medicare

Question 26

What court descision legalized abortion?

Answer 26

Roe V Wade

Question 27

The counterculture movement promoted all of the following except what?

Answer 27

Questioning religion and authority

Question 28

The Republican Party tries to solve economic by supporting what?

Answer 28

Lowering taxes And government spending

Question 29

What Bush tell the Americans that was a lie?

Answer 29

Hussein had weapons of mass destruction