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CorrectWrongHome Question 100 The method of keeping blacks from voting was outlawed by the Twenty- fourth Amendment?

CorrectWrongHome Answer 100 What is poll taxes.

CorrectWrongHome Question 200 Method of keeping blacks from voting was outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

CorrectWrongHome Answer 200 What is literacy tests.

CorrectWrongHome Question 300 Give at least one factor that made the Vietnam War harder to win than American politicians and military leaders had thought?

CorrectWrongHome Answer 300 What not clear cut conflict between two countries but a guerrilla war; supplies for the Communist forces flowed through neutral Cambodia and Laos; the government of South Vietnam. was corrupt.

CorrectWrongHome Question 400 The event that caused the American people to begin to doubt government reports of progress in the Vietnam War?

CorrectWrongHome Answer 400 What is the Tet Offensive.

CorrectWrongHome Question 500 The site of the worst urban riot in the United States in the 1960s?

CorrectWrongHome Answer 500 Where is Detroit.

CorrectWrongHome Question 100 What was the rallying point for disaffected young people in the 1960s and 1970s?

CorrectWrongHome 100 answer What is the opposition to the Vietnam War (anti war movement)

CorrectWrongHome Question 200 What was the popular expression of the counterculture?

CorrectWrongHome 200 answer What is the hippie movement.

CorrectWrongHome Question 300 What was the most widely used drug of the 1960s?

CorrectWrongHome 300 answer What is marijuana.

CorrectWrongHome Question 400 The first antiwar Democrat to challenge the re-nomination of Lyndon Johnson?

CorrectWrongHome 400 answer Who is Euguene McCarthy.

CorrectWrongHome Question 500 After the withdrawal of Johnson in the 1968 campaign, which Democratic candidates best represented the incumbent president’s policies?

CorrectWrongHome 500 answer Who is Hubert Humphrey.

CorrectWrongHome Question 100 What two major American leaders died violently?

CorrectWrongHome 100 answer Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

CorrectWrongHome Question 200 Name the Republican nominee of 1968?

CorrectWrongHome 200 answer Who is Richard Nixon?

CorrectWrongHome 300 Question Who was the Democratic nominee of 1968?

CorrectWrongHome 300 answer Who is Hubert Humphrey.

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CorrectWrongHome Daily Double 400 The major third-party candidate in the presidential election?

CorrectWrongHome Daily Double answer Who is George Wallace.

CorrectWrongHome Question 500 What method did the courts order to speed the integration of public schools?

CorrectWrongHome 500 answer busing

CorrectWrongHome Question 100 Nixon’s greatest triumph in foreign affairs?

CorrectWrongHome 100 answer Establishing relations with the People’s Republic of China.

CorrectWrongHome Question 200 Name one of the three traumatic events in the United States during Nixon’s term of office deepened the division in the nation over the Vietnam War?

CorrectWrongHome 200 answer Court-martial of William Calley, killings at Kent State, the publication of the Pentagon.

CorrectWrongHome Question 300 What two countries, both the sites of major wars, were split into Northern (communist) and southern (free) parts after WWII?

CorrectWrongHome 300 answer What are Korea and Vietnam.

CorrectWrongHome Question 400 Congress approved this resolution giving the President permission to “take all necessary measures to repel any attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression?

CorrectWrongHome 400 answer What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

CorrectWrongHome Question 500 Name given to the pro- Communist in South Vietnam?

CorrectWrongHome 500 answer Who is the Viet Cong.

CorrectWrongHome Question 100 A policy of interpreting the law and Constitution broadly in order to address what judges perceive as major social problems?

CorrectWrongHome 100 answer What is judicial activism.

CorrectWrongHome Question 200 The name given to Johnson’s policy of using government resources to give all citizens opportunity to better themselves politically, socially, and economically?

CorrectWrongHome 200 answer What is the Great Society.

CorrectWrongHome Question 300 The department Johnson used to attack poverty?

CorrectWrongHome 300 answer The Office of Economic Opportunity.

CorrectWrongHome Question 400 A group of students took over this place calling for a reform of corruption and greater political freedom?

CorrectWrongHome 400 answer What is Tiananmen Square.

CorrectWrongHome Question 500 What was the first and most important of Johnson’s civil rights bills?

CorrectWrongHome 500 answer The Civil Rights Act of 1964.