Ch. 24The Shattered Society

Ch. 24 The Shattered Society

Multiple Choice

who was the alleged assassin of President Kennedy?

• John Wilkes Boothe

• Vladimir Putin

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Alex Ovechkin

Kennedy assassination

• Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22 1963

• the alleged assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald

• He was killed on live tv only two days after shooting the President

• VP Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as President on Air Force One after President Kennedy was pronounced dead

President Johnson

• Although he lacked Kennedy's charisma Johnson was one of the country's most

• experienced

• energetic

• crafty politicians

• Johnson believed that the government had the

• power and resources to eliminate poverty and inequality to create the

• "Great Society"

Multiple Choice

Who became President on Air Force One after President Kennedy was assassinated?

• Andrew Johnson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Millard Fillmore

• Lyndon Johnson

Civil Rights

• Americans supported the legitimate demand for equal rights for all

• the rights they wanted to secure included

• improved educational opportunities for their children

• the right to vote

• opponents of the civil rights movement used violence against non violent protestors

Civil Rights

• Soon after becoming President, Johnson pressed for legislation to guarantee the rights of African Americans Congress responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Following the murders in Selma, Alabama Johnson motivated congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• the 24th amendment outlawed the poll tax which was used to prevent African Americans from voting

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Multiple Select

Which of the following were the rights that were being demanded

• free stuff for all

• improved educational opportunities for their children

• land grab

• the right to vote

Multiple Select

the Office of Economic Opportunity attacked poverty through Job __________ and ______________ programs

• training

• creation

• destruction

• placement

War on Poverty

• in His first state of the Union address President Johnson declared a "War on Poverty"

• through the newly formed Office of Economic Opportunity the government attacked poverty through

• job training and job placement programs

• these job placement programs were

• Head start a preschool program for children in poor families

• Volunteers in Service to America VISTA

• these programs of the War on Poverty did succeed in raising thousands of people above the poverty level

Multiple Select

the Office of Economic Opportunity attacked poverty through Job __________ and ______________ programs

• training

• creation

• destruction

• placement

1964 election

in 1964 President Johnson ran against Barry Goldwater

Multiple Choice

How many bills did President Johnson push through after reelection?

• 250

• 25

• 100

• 89

a Flood of Legislation

after reelection President Johnson pushed through 89 bills

Medicare

• Medicare was the program that had the widest reach

• medicare is a government health insurance program established in 1965 to help elderly people pay for medical care

• the government pays for this program by taxing wages of all Americans

Multiple Choice

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme court from 1953-1969?

• Earl Warren

• John Jay

• John Roberts

• John Marshall

the Warren Court

• Earl Warren was the Chief Justice of the Supreme court from 1953-69

• the Warren court pursued a policy of judicial activism

• judicial activism is: interpreting the law and the Constitution broadly to address what the judges perceive as major social problems

Multiple Choice

Under which President did the American commitment to a non communist South Vietnam begin?

• Kennedy

• Roosevelt

• Eisenhower

• Johnson

Johnson and Vietnam

• US commitment to a non communist South Vietnam began under President Eisenhower

• Under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy the troops were sent to train South Vietnamese soldiers and protect American embassy

• the Gulf of Tonkin was the incident that led the Americans to being in a fully engaged war in Vietnam

• the Gulf of Tonkin resolution gave the President the power to take all neccessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US and to prevent further aggression

one historian said this about US involvement in Asia

that the more the US tried to free itself the more entangled the US became

Five factors that made the Vietnam war more difficult than Americans believed it would be

• 1: the war was not a clear cut war between two separate nations as in Korea Americans were fighting both North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese guerillas known as Viet Cong

• 2: supplies for the communist forces from north Vietnam flowed not across the north south border but also through neighboring countries

• 3: the government of South Vietnam although not communist was corrupt, undemocratic, and unstable

Five factors that made the Vietnam war more difficult than Americans believed it would be

• 4: the civilian leadership in both executive and legislative branches wanted to micromanage the war rather then let the generals do their job

• 5: most importantly Johnson committed to the idea of a limited defensive war

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