Unit 11 Review

Great Society legislation that funded job training and community action programs

• Sit-ins

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Great Society

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

African American who sued and won the right to attend the University of Texas Law School

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Hector P. Garcia

• Heman Sweatt

• Beaufort Jester

Founder of the American GI Forum to fight racial discrimination.

• James Farmer

• Hector P. Garcia

• Henry B. Gonzalez

• Heman Sweatt

Act of Congress that gave authority for President Johnson to send troops into combat in Vietnam.

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Sit-ins

• Great Society

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Founder and later director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• Heman Sweatt

• Beauford Jester

• James Farmer

• Hector Garcia

Program launched by President Johnson for sweeping reforms to improve the lives of Texans

• Great Society

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Sit-ins

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Texan who served in the U.S. House of Representative for 37 years.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• James Farmer

• Heman Sweatt

• Henry B. Gonzalez

Texan who became president after John F. Kennedy's assasination

• Hector P. Garcia

• Henry B. Gonzalez

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Beauford Jester

Protests that involve refusing to leave a location

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

• Sit-ins

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Great Society

Raymond Telles, elected mayor of El Paso, was the first Hispanic mayor of a major city

• True

• False