John F. Kennedy and The New Frontier

  • A quiz on everything you should know about JFK and the New Frontier for the history GCSE edexcel exam on 'a divided union'.
  • The quiz includes questions on economy, social reform and progress in the civil rights movement.
  • Some questions are to get you to learn facts on the topic that you can integrate into your answers. You may not have been taught these particular facts but they are relevant and useful if you want to achieve a high grade.
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  • Created by: Frankie
  • Created on: 04-04-10 21:19

1. CIVIL RIGHTS: When did Kennedy send 23,000 government troops to ensure that just one black student, James Meredith, could study at the University of Mississippi?

  • October 1962
  • April 1964
  • May 1963
  • August 1961
  • December 1963
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2. SOCIAL REFORM: Which of the following statements is false?

  • Free medical care (Medicare) was given to the elderly
  • Greater financial help was given to elderly and the unemployed
  • Social security benefits were extended to each child with an unemployed father

3. SOCIAL REFORM: Which of the following was NOT a disadvantage of the social reform?

  • The poorest people could not pay back housing loans
  • Many poor black families from the North moved to southern cities looking for work and experienced poverty and racial tension
  • A lot of investment was put into north-western states as opposed to southern states
  • Minimum wage only helped those who already had a job
  • Slum clearance created housing shortages in inner-city areas

4. CIVIL RIGHTS: Kennedy threatened the state of Louisiana for refusing to fund schools that were not segregated.

  • True
  • False

5. CIVIL RIGHTS: Kennedy filled several key government posts with black Americans. Which of the following statements is not true?

  • Robert Weaver became Home Finance Adminstrator
  • Kennedy appointed four black federal judges
  • Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights activist, was appointed to the US Circuit Court
  • The appointment of Thurgood Marshall showed the commitment of Kennedy to the issue of civil rights
  • Carl Rowan became Ambassador for Finland
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Helen

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good

Helen

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done it again i am now a clever quizzer

Fattty

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It was actually on the 1st of october, 1962 that Kennedy sent 23, 000 troops to ensure James Meredith's safety.

Frankie

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True! Thanks for telling me :) I'll change it on the quiz and check the other dates.

Fattty

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Sorry to be so anal but the civil rights bill was first introduced by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963. However, the actual bill was sent to congress on June 19 of the same year.

Also, in 1963, Kennedy proposed a tax reform which included income tax cuts, but this was not passed by Congress until 1964, after his death.

Great quiz though, really helps to test and reinforce all the facts on the "new frontier" section of the edexcel syllabus, thank you!!

priya777

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i just find learning all these dates quite difficult, i get them all mixed up :/ can someone suggest to me how i should learn these dates?

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