The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed
a. a long deadlock over the nomination of its presidential candidate.
b. a violent conflict between police and anti war demonstrators outside the convention hall.
c. a walkout by hundreds of southern delegates, who then founded the Independent party.
d. the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy soon after he delivered a speech at the convention.
e. the enthusiastic nomination of Vice President Humphrey.
Answer: B
The Stormy Sixties
- The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was
- The skepticism about authority that emerged in the United States during the 1960s
- Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should
- The "spoiler" third-party candidate for president in 1968 was
- During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to
- The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy
- The 1967 Six-Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict
- Aerial bombardment in Vietnam
- Some advocates of Black Power insisted that their slogan stood for all of the following except
- By 1972, integrated classrooms were most common in the?
- "Operation Rolling Thunder" was the code name for?
- The Latin American nation where Lyndon Johnson send 25,000 American troops to counteract alleged Communist influence was
- Some advocates of Black Power made the slogan the basis for
- By the late 1960s, Black Power advocates in the North focused their attention primarily on
- Black leaders in the 1960s included, ___________ an advocate of peaceable resistance; ___________, who favored black separatism; and __________, an advocate of "Black Power."
- The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized
- As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
- The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the
- As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,
- The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except
- In the final analysis, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs
- All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson's administration except
- Lyndon Johnson channeled educational aid
- Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their