Chapter 27 New Frontier (1960-1968) Study Guide

Who did JFK defeat to win the 1960 Election?

• Richard Nixon
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Lyndon Johnson
• Harry Truman

The factor that may have most helped JFK win the Election of 1960 was

• He was Catholic
• He looked good during the TV debates
• He was known to be the most experienced candidate
• He was friendly with Fidel Castro

Who assassinated JFK according to police?

• The mafia
• Fidel Castro
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet missiles found here almost caused WWIII

• Cuba
• Turkey
• East Berlin
• Dominican Republican

Members of the Counterculture Movement were known as what?

• Hippies
• Beatniks
• Yuppies
• Silent Minority

Who took over the presidency after JFK was assassinated?

• Lyndon B Johnson
• Leonard Neemoy
• Abraham Lincoln
• John F Kennedy

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

This Great Society program provided health insurance for senior citizens

• Medicare

• HUD

• Head Start

• Job Corps

Johnson's domestic program was called

• New Deal
• Square Deal
• Awesome Society
• Great Society

President Kennedy's domestic program was called the

• New Deal

• New Frontier

• Final Frontier

• Great Society