CS 11.10 Great Society- Civil Rights

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LBJ, who became president when Kennedy was assassinated, was ______
An experienced politician
Which of the following groups benefitted the most from the Great Society?
Minorities and the poor
The Economic Opportunity Act did all of the following except _________.
Offer foreign aid to Latin American countries
The Immigration Act of 1965 ________.
Ended quotas based on nationality
Decisions of the Warren Court were ________.
Praised by liberals
What was the major factor in LBJ's victory over Goldwater in 1964?
Goldwater's call for nuclear weapon use
What was one result of Johnson's Great Society initiatives?
A conservative backlash
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed ________
The use of different voter registration standards for blacks
Which S.C. case stated that seperate but equal was constitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
The new policy of integration was used to protect nine students in which Southern city?
Little Rock
In 1955, the S.C. handed down a second ruling known as Brown II that ordered ______________
Implementation of school desegregation
Before trying to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson, NAACP lawyers launched a series of suits __________
Seeking to eliminate segregated facilities
The legal strategy used to end segregation in the South during the 1950s focused on __________
Public education
The above list refers to the S.C. case of ____________
Brown v. Board of Education
The civil right strategy that Malcom X utilized was __________
Blacks should seperate from white society