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Ch.29 Study Guide
Chapter 29 Honors History Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This soviet was the first man in space. | Gagarin |
| This entity prevented most of Kennedy's policies from becoming a reality? | Congress |
| The ___ Commission investigated Kennedy's murder. | Warren |
| The Kennedy's Assassin's assassin. | Ruby |
| The New Frontier was Kennedy's _____ program? | Domestic |
| Kennedy and Nixon engaged in the first Televised _____. | Debate |
| This American was the first man on the moon. | Armstrong |
| Kennedy signed the _____ Test Ban Treaty. | Nuclear |
| Republican candidate in 1960 | Nixon |
| Kennedy's assassin | Oswald |
| Kennedy's faith | Catholic |
| Kennedy's age at election | Forty-three |
| Where Kennedy was killed | Dallas, Texas |
| Kennedy's close margin of victory did not provide for a _____ | mandate |
| How many votes did Democrat John F. Kennedy win the election of 1960? | Fewer than 119,000 |
| What did the New Frontier favor? | The needs of the poor and minorities rather than the wishes of Big Businesses. |
| Did Kennedy support of refuse the U.S. Space Program? | Support |
| Did Oswald act alone in the Kennedy Assassination and who declared that? | Yes, and The Warren Commission |
| Why did Kennedy lack a mandate to push his measures through congress? | He was young, Catholic, and didn't win much. |
| What was the key elements of the New Frontier? | To improve the economy, assist the poor, and speed up the space program |
| Why was the Warren Commission needed? | To investigate the Kennedy assassination |
| What did the Board of Education case do? | End Segregation |
| What did the Gideon Vs. Wainwright case do? | Involved the 6th amendment |
| What did The Mapp Vs. Ohio case do? | Involved the 4th amendment |
| What was the (Tax Cut) program? | Revived prosperity and decreased unemployment |
| What did the Economic Opportunity Act do? | Created to combat causes of poverty such as illiteracy. Set up community action programs to give the poor a voice in defining local housing, health and education policies. |
| What did the Elementary and Secondary Education act do? | Provided education aid to states based on the number of children from low-income homes. |
| What did medicare, 1965 do? | Provided hospital care and low-cost medical insurance for American age 65 and older |
| What did medicaid do? | Provided low-cost health insurance for poor Americans of any age who could not afford their own private health insurance. |
| What did the immigration reform do? | Replaced quotas with more flexible limits |
| What was the Criticism for the Great Society Legislation, 1964-1966? | 1. Spent too much federal money 2. Gave too much power to the Government 3. Didn't give enough money to the poor |
| What was the Great Society? | A series of major legislative initiatives that continued into Johnson's 2nd term |
| What was the Volunteers in Service of America (VISTA)? | Sent volunteers to help people in poor communities |
| What was the Miranda rule? | Police must inform accused person that they have the right to remain silent |
| What was the apportionment? | The distribution of the seats in the legislation among electoral districts |
| The republican candidate for president in 1964? | Goldwater |
| Johnson's preschool program | Head Start |
| Legislation to reform, this replaced the old quota system | Immigration |
| Johnson's 1964 victory is often characterized at this | Landslide |
| Highest position Johnson held in the Senate, as a senator | Majority Leader |
| Johnson's program for health care for the poor | Medicaid |
| Johnson's program fir health care for the elderly | Medicare |
| This rule guarantees rights are read to those accused of crimes | Miranda Rule |
| Johnson's political office prior to the presidency | Vice President |
| Johnson's program to help people in poor communities | Daisy Program |
| When the Warren Court made the first attempt to define obscenity, ruling that obscene materials were "Utterly without redeeming social importance." | Roth Vs. United States |
| When the court rules that religious prayer in public schools was unconstitutional according to the first amendment principle of separation of church and state | Engel Vs. Vitale |
| When the court struck down a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of birth control | Griswold Vs. Connecticut |
| Stated that evidence seized illegally cannot be used in a trial | Mapp Vs. Ohio |
| Stated that suspects in criminal cases who could not afford a lawyer had the right to free legal aid | Gideon Vs. Wainwright |
| Stated that accused individuals had to be given access to an attorney while being questioned | Escobedo Vs. Illinois |
| Police must inform accused person that they have the right to remain silent; anything they say can be used against them in court that they have a right to an attorney; and that if they cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to them | Miranda Vs. Arizona |
| Stated that state legislative districts not based on the "one man, one vote" formula violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment | Reynolds Vs. Sims |
| Declared that state legislative districts had to be divided on the "one man, one vote" | Baker Vs. Carr |
| What was the Berlin Wall? | A somber symbol of the cold war |
| What was the Cuban missile crisis? | American response to construction of soviet missile bases in Cuba |
| What was the Limited Test Ban Treaty? | Banned nuclear testing above the ground |
| What was the peace corps? | Kennedy's hope for a wold in which nations worked together peacefully to solve problems was also reflected in his establishments |
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