Step Four: Put It All Together

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CHAPTER 28 STUDY GUIDE

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PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.

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LYNDON JOHNSON AND THE GREAT SOCIETY

  • What were the most important domestic achievements of the Johnson administration? What were its most important failures?
  • What assumptions about the relationship between government and society underlay Johnson’s Great Society programs?
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PROTEST AND REBELLION

  • What role did students play in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s? How did the civil rights movement change toward the end of the decade?
  • What were the key achievements of 1960s feminism? What goals did it fail to fulfill?

LIBERAL REFORM IN THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION

  • What liberal initiatives did the Nixon administration embrace, and what explains these actions?
  • Should Richard Nixon be considered an environmentalist? Why or why not?
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LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD

  • How did the African American civil rights movement of the 1960s differ from the movement of the 1950s?
  • What kinds of opposition emerged in the late 1960s to liberal reforms and radical protest? How might that trend influence politics in the decades after the 1960s?
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