Justin Franklin

Mr. Haskells

History

June 12 2005

A-F (Eslr 1, 2)

1. a. Joseph McCarthy was a senator that charged many Americans with harboring communist sympathies. Eventually, the Senate condemned McCarthy’s reckless behavior.

b. The Great Society was a broad new program which was made by Lyndon Johnson. It funded Medicare for the elderly, job training and low cost housing for the poor, and support for education.

c. Ronald Reagan called for cutbacks in government spending on social programs.

d. in 1954, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. It declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional.

e. by 1956, a gifted preacher, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement. He organized boycotts and led peaceful marches throughout the 1960’s to end segregation in the United States.

f. in 1959, Canada and the United States completed the St. Lawrence Seaway. It opened the great lakes to ocean-going ships and linked the interior of both countries to the Atlantic Ocean.