HIST 2057 Chapter : Hist 2057 Lesson 14
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New frontier- a slogan used by president john f. kennedy to describe his goals and policies. Kennedy maintained that, like the americans of the frontier in the nineteenth century, americans of the twentieth century had to rise to new challenges, such as achieving equality of opportunity for all. Freedom ride- freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states to test the united states supreme court decision. The first freedom ride left washington, d. c. , on may 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in new orleans on may 17. Civil rights act (1964)- comprehensive u. s. law intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. Gulf of tonkin resolution- resolution by the u. s. congress authorizing pres. Johnson to use "all necessary measures" to repel armed attacks against u. s. forces in. It was drafted in response to the alleged shelling of two u. s. navy ships by.
