Chapter 29

John F. Kennedy ran in the 1960 election with the following domestic policy intended to renew urban areas, pass civil rights and healthcare

• Great Society
• New Deal
• Flexible Response
• New Frontier

Only weeks after taking office, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war” on

• A. racism.
• B. crime.
• C. intolerance.
• E. poverty.

President Lyndon Johnson’s Medicare program

• A. made benefits available on the basis of need.
• B. provided financial aid to the elderly
• C. appealed mainly to poor and working-class Americans.
• E. angered doctors by forcing them to lower their fees.

Lyndon Johnson's Community Action Program

• Gave poor people jobs and valuable experience in politics
• Granted $3 billion to reduce proverty
• Targeted Hispanic, Black, and Native American communities
• All these answers are correct

In February 1960, the first “sit-in” demonstration by SNCC protesting segregation was held at a

• church
• swimming pool
• movie theater
• lunch counter

In 1961, the “freedom rides” sponsored by CORE attempted to

• B. transport black children to formerly all-white schools.
• C. force the desegregation of bus stations.
• D. help move poor blacks out of the South.
• E. transport black workers to white-only businesses.

In the early 1960s, the primary membership of SNCC was

• A. college students.
• B. Democrats.
• C. rural blacks.
• E. Catholics.

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 primarily focused on the issue of

• A. desegregation of public accommodations.
• B. voting rights by eliminating literacy tests.
• C. fair employment practices.
• D. housing discrimination.
• E. violence directed against civil rights workers.

The 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, involved all of the following EXCEPT the

• A. call for voting rights for blacks.
• B. involvement of Martin Luther King Jr.
• C. televised attack on demonstrators by local police.
• D. resignation of Governor George Wallace.

In the 1960s, the philosophy of “black power”

• A. called for an increased awareness of racial differences.
• B. helped to unite the many different black civil rights groups.
• C. encouraged greater racial assimilation.
• D. disavowed the use of violence in the civil rights movement.