Unit 10 - Kennedy - Johnson

Read the following sentence from King’s speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” How did Martin Luther King Jr. feel about the future of America?

• scared
• angry
• hopeful
• sad

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Martin Luther King Jr.’s work to change unfair laws was caused by a desire for people to be treated fairly. What was an effect of King’s work?

• Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and gave speeches.
• Equal rights laws were passed, so Americans are treated fairly.
• African Americans and whites went to separate schools.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?

• Assimilation 
• Civil Rights
• Segregation        
• Desegregation

MLK was assassinated in what year?

• 1978
• 1868
• 1988
• 1968

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What was JFK's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Naval blockade of Cuba
• invade Cuba
• bomb U.S.S.R.
• do nothing

What was the purpose of LBJ's Great Society?

• end poverty
• end drug trafficking
• end lynching
• fix the economy

Soviet missiles found here almost caused WWIII

• Cuba
• Turkey
• East Berlin
• Dominican Republican

What failed invasion of Cuba embarrassed JFK & led to his distrust of the CIA?

• Bay of Pigs
• D-Day
• Operation Havana
• Cuban Offensive

What health insurance program was created to help the elderly?

• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Social Security
• G.I. Bill

This established that separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional.

• Brown v Board of Education

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Roe v Wade

• Plessy v Ferguson