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TX History final
Question | Answer | |
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What were the political stances that emerged in the 1950s? | Moderates, Liberals, and conservatives | |
What is modern republicanism? | Government approach involving conservative economic policies but liberal social policies | |
What is the interstate highway system? | A program supported by Eisenhower to connect major US cities | |
When President Eisenhower placed the National Guard under federal control it showed what? | That the government was going to enforce segregation | |
What influenced the 1960 election between Nixon and JFK? | Television | |
What was Kennedy’s domestic program called? | The New Frontier | |
In what city was JFK assassinated? | Dallas | |
What was not supported by President Johnson? | The Presidential Powers Act of 1969 | |
What was the Watergate scandal? | Event that involves tape recordings revealing a president was involved in attempting to cover up the burglary at the Democratic headquarters | |
What was the Great Society? | A group of programs created by President Johnson to be a “war on poverty” | |
What was Plessy v Ferguson? | Upheld legal segregation: states are required to have separate but equal accommodations for white and colored persons | |
Brown vs Board of Education? | Resulted in all public schools being integrated | |
Why was NASA created? | Because of fears that Soviet technology was superior | |
What was sputnik? | The first artificial satellite to orbit earth | |
In what year did the US go to the moon? | 1969 | |
The Texas medical industry | Is currently in a boom cycle | |
The Houston medical center does what? | 1. Treats and cares for patients 2. Has medical research 3. Teaches medical students | |
Thurgood Marshall? | Civil rights | |
Yuri Gagarin? | Space race | |
James L. Farmer Junior? | Civil rights | |
Alan Shepard? | Space Race | |
Joseph McCarthy? | US senator who called out suspected “communist” and Hollywood and in the US government | |
Lyndon B Johnson? | US president who signed the civil rights act of 1964 | |
Richard Nixon? | US president who struggled to end Vietnam war; resign from office | |
Martin Luther King Jr.? | Civil rights leader who led non violent protest; gave the famous “I have a dream speech” in 1963; assassinated in Memphis Tennessee in 1968 | |
Jack Kilby? | In 1958, he invented the integrated silicon circuit, or “chip” that was first used in calculators, computers, and watches. He worked for Texas Instruments | |
Michael DeBakey? | In 1932, this doctor/heart surgeon invented the roller pump which made open heart surgery possible. Pioneered new techniques and treating heart disease by using synthetic materials to replace diseased blood vessels | |
Michael Dell? | Founder of a major computer company in Round Rock, Texas in the 1980s where he decided to sell computers first, and then build them |