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Match the following

• Outlawed literacy tests

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Founded by college students to protest discrimination

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin

• Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Founded by MLK and other pastors to end discrimination

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Match the following

• Police used violence against antiwar protests in Chicago; televised

• 1968 Democratic Convention

• Healthcare program for elderly and disabled

• Great Society

• Johnson's program to create a better world regardless of background; war on poverty

• JFK Assassination

• Began on college campuses as the war grew longer and more young people drafted/killed

• Medicare

• Lee Harvey Oswald shoots Kennedy; Johnson becomes president; helps civil rights legislation

• Anti-Vietnam Movement

César Chávez, an American of Mexican descent who grew up picking crops in California with his family, is most noted for:

• Founder of the United Farm Workers’ Movement
• Boycotting Mexican Imports
• Protesting against the Vietnam War
• First Mexican-American Senator 

What happened at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, broadcast on live television, that damaged the reputation of the Democratic Party and led to Nixon's election?

• Riots broke out between anti-war protesters and law enforcement

• Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated as the Democratic Party presidential candidate

• Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated

• A race riot destroyed half of the city

This list best describes President Johnson's

• War on Poverty

• record of civil rights activism

• foreign policy actions

• Great Society program

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women

• made it illegal for black voters to be disenfranchised through unfair voting registration laws

• made it illegal for blacks to be discriminated against in schools, places of work, and facilities that serve the general public

• started the Civil Rights Movement

"I HAVE TODAY signed into law H.R. 13247, the National Defense Education Act. This Act, which is an emergency undertaking to be terminated after four years, will in that time do much to strengthen our American system of education so that it can meet the broad and increasing demands imposed upon it by considerations of basic national security."

--statement by President Eisenhower, upon signing the National Defense Education Act, September 2, 1958.

Which TWO factors MOST LIKELY spurred the passing of the legislation mentioned above?

• the ending of World War II

• the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

• the successful launch of Sputnik into space

• the increase of consumerism in the United States

• the fear that public education was not as successful as in other countries.

This law outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

After WWII, the US implemented what was known as the Marshall Plan. The purpose of this plan was to:

• Supply West Berlin with much needed supplies despite the Soviets' decision to block access to the city.

• Provide European nations with the money they needed to rebuild after WWII in order to prevent the spread of communist ideas.

• Prevent Communists from taking over countries in Southeast Asia.

• Provide returning US soldiers with jobs, homes, and educational opportunities as they returned home from the war.

A war of democracy versus communism which ended in a stalemate, with neither side declaring victory.

• World War I

• World War II

• Vietnam War

• Korean War