Starter quiz
- Write the missing word. Legislation refers to ______ passed by the government.
- 'laws' ✓
- Which president signed the 1964 and 1968 Civil Rights Acts as well as the 1965 Voting Rights Act?
- Truman
- Eisenhower
- Kennedy
- Johnson ✓
- Nixon
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- Which civil rights law was also known as the Fair Housing Act?
- 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 1965 Voting Rights Act
- 1968 Civil Rights Act ✓
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- What percentage of African American teenagers were unemployed by 1970?
- 10%
- 25%
- 50% ✓
- 85%
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- Which of the following laws was a response to police attacks on protestors at Selma?
- 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 1965 Voting Rights Act ✓
- 1968 Civil Rights Act
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Brown v. Board case
- 2⇔Little Rock Nine gain national attention
- 3⇔Civil Rights Act passed
- 4⇔Voting Rights Act passed
- 5⇔Fair Housing Act passed
Exit quiz
- Write the missing keyword: ______ refers to the process of improving a place or system, especially to make it more active or successful.
- 'regeneration' ✓
- Who introduced the New Frontier as president?
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- Harry S Truman
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- John F Kennedy ✓
- Lyndon B Johnson
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- How did JFK change the minimum wage?
- abolished it
- increased it from 1
- reduced it from 0.50
- increased it from 1.25 ✓
- reduced it from 1
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- Name either of the healthcare insurance schemes introduced by LBJ in 1965.
- 'Medicare' ✓
- Which statement about US poverty levels between 1959 and 1970 is most accurate?
- overall poverty levels fell ✓
- overall poverty levels rose
- poverty levels only fell for white Americans
- poverty levels only fell for black Americans
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔JFK elected president
- 2⇔minimum wage increased
- 3⇔JFK assassinated
- 4⇔LBJ passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 5⇔Medicare and Medicaid introduced
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Key learning points
- President's Kennedy and Johnson both promised regeneration for the USA.
- JFK led the New Frontier programme and LBJ led the Great Society programme.
- Poverty declined in the 1960s but inequality remained.
- Access to education and healthcare improved.
- Critics argued that the New Frontier and Great Society could have achieved more.
Common misconception
Government policies in the 1960s were only focused on improving civil rights in the USA.
The New Frontier and Great Society were both varied programmes that involved policy action to improve many different aspects of life in America.
Keywords
Regeneration - the process of improving a place or system, especially to make it more active or successful
Social security - benefits system which provided payments to vulnerable groups such as the elderly or unemployed
Congress - the group of politicians who vote on laws for the whole of the USA
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