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57 Cards in this Set
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New Frontier
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JFK's program for aid to edu., fed support of health care, urban renewal, civil rights
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Peace Corps
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JFK's army of idealistic, youthful volunteers to bring American skills to developing nations
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Great Society
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LBJ's programs to extend New Deal social reforms. Extended version of JFK's civil rights bill, income tax cut
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War on Poverty
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in response to "The Other America" by Harrington
LBJ's program to end poverty. Included Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), head start program, Job Corp, literary programs, legal services |
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"The Other America"
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book by Michael Harrington
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OEO
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Office of Economic Opportunity
LBJ's war on poverty |
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Elementary and Secondary Edu Act
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provided aid to poor school districts
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Medicaid
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Govt paid health care for poor and disabled
AID the poor CARE for the disabled |
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Medicare
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Health insurance for 65 yrs+
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Return of Christ
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Matthew 24-25,
1 Thessalonians 4-5; Rev 20-21; John 14:3; "And if I go and prepare a place for you,I will come again..." |
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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made segregation illegal in all public facilities
gave govt more power to enforce school DE-segregation |
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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end discrimination in employment
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24th Amendment
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abolish poll tax
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in south (protect black voters)
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James Meredith
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African American air force vet tried to enroll in Univ of Mississippi in 1962. Fed court helped him and JFK sent troops to control protestors
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MLK Jr.
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assassinated April 1968
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March on Washington
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August 1963
200 K people marched in support of civil rights bill |
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Selma Alabama Voting Rights March
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1965
Marched from Selma to Montgomery |
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Black Muslims
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focused on black nationalism, separation, and self-improvement
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Malcolm X
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called for self-defense using black violence to combat white violence
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CORE
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Congress of Racial Equality
nongovernmental org led freedom riders (African Americans sitting in white sections of bus to protest segregation) |
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Stokely Carmichael
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leader of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) who rejected nonviolence and advocated black power and racial separatism
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Black Panthers
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socialist movement org. by Huey Newton, Bobby Seale in 1966 advocated self-rule for blacks
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Watts Riots
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Summer of 1965
race riots Los Angeles 34 dead, 700 bldgs destroyed |
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Kerner Commission
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fed investigation of race riots.
Black Panthers NOT behind violence Racism/segregation = cause of riots |
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Betty Friedan
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wrote Feminine Mystique
middle class women should aspire higher than housewives |
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NOW
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Nt'l Org for Women
founded by Friedan = rights for women |
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ERA
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Equal Rights Amendment
to end gender discrimination Passed in Congress but did NOT gain needed acceptance by 38 states |
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SDS
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Students for Democratic Society
led by Tom Hayden Port Huron Statement: university decisions to be made through participatory democracy/students can vote |
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Tom Hayden
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Led SDS (Students for Democratic Society)
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New Left
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people supporting SDS (Students for Democratic Society)
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Alliance for Progress
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JFK's promotion of land reform & econ development in Latin America
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Trade Expansion Act of 1962
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tariff reductions in European Economic Community of Western European nations
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Berlin Wall
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to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Germany.
Because of this, JFK refused to pull troops out of West Germany |
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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agreement w/ Soviets prohibiting trial of nuclear weapons in atmosphere
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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LBJ used incident in Gulf of Tonkin (north Vietnamese coast) as reason to go to war
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Tet Offensive
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Lunar New Year (Jan. 1968)
Vietcong surprise attacked American base in South Vietnam TURNING POINT of american involvement in war |
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Hawks/Doves
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Hawk-pro war
Dove-anit-war (Vietnam = civil war) |
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Eugene McCarthy
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Minnesota Senator
anti-war movement challenged LBJ for democratic nomination in 1968 election |
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George Wallace
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Governor of Alabama
American Independent ticket in 1968 election Pro-segregation, pro-war, etc. |
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Hubert Humphrey
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LBJ's VP
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Gideon v. Wainwright
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state courts must provide services of an attorney to poor defendants
(Right to an attorney) |
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Escobedo v. Illinois
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Police must inform the accused of his right to remain silent
(Right to remain silent) |
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Miranda v. Arizona
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extended Escobedo
Right to lawyer being present during police questioning (Right to lawyer during questioning) |
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Baker v. Carr
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Congressional districts determined by pop (NOT geographical size)
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Reapportionment
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changed boundaries of Congressional districts
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Yates v. US
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1st Amendment protects radical and revolutionary speech (incl. Communists)
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Engel v. Vitale
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states can NOT require Bible rdgs in public school
violates 1st Amendment's separation of church and state |
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Eisenhower's political party
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republican but liberal
encouraged desegregation |
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LBJ was from this state
held this congressional position |
democratic senate majority leader
Texas |
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Civil Rights Act of 1957 (4)
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1. First Fed. Civil Rights Bill since 1875
2. Est. permanent Civil Rights Commission 3. Appointed Assistant Attorney Gen. for civil rights 4. Allowed fed govt to issue injunctions if citizens denied suffrage |
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Orval Faubus
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Governor of Arkansas
Crisis @ Little Rock when 9 black students were not allowed to register at the high school |
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Earl Warren
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Chief Justice appointed by Eisenhower
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Topeka, Kansas
segregation of public schools is unconst overturned Plessy v. Ferguson which said separate but equal was const |
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Rosa Park's Bus incident: when?
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dec. 1955
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SCLC
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded by MLK Jr.
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Greensboro Sit-in
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1960, North Carolina
4 African American college students demanded service at Woolworth's lunch counter returned the next day with more people |
