19.2: Kennedy's New Frontier

Chapter 19 Section 2: Kennedy's New Frontier

• Note Taking (p.624): Chart
• Checkpoint (p.624): Why did people feel that Kennedy was a different kind of politician?
• Analyzing Political Cartoons (p.625): #1 & 2
• Thinking Critically (p.626): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.627): Why did Kennedy change the way in which he addressed civil rights issues?
• Checkpoint (p.627): What was the purpose of the Warren Commission?
• Section 2 Assessment: #3, 4, 5, 6

18.3: New Successes and Challenges

Chapter 18 Section 3: New Successes and Challenges

• Voting Rights Legislation Takes Effect (p.602): Which state listed in the table had the greatest increase in voter registration between 1964 and 1968?
• Checkpoint (p.602): What impact did the protests in Selma, Alabama, have on the nation?
• Transfer Activities (p.603): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.604): Why was the Kerner Commission formed?
• Thinking Critically (p.606): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.607): What impact did Malcolm X have on the civil rights movement?
• Checkpoint (p.607): Why did King go to Memphis in 1968?
• Checkpoint (p.608) What gains did the civil rights movement make by the early 1970s?
• Section 3 Assessment (p.608): #4, 5, 6

18.2: The Movement Gains Ground

Chapter 18 Section 2: The Movement Gains Ground

• Protesting Segregation (p.590): How would you describe the atmosphere at this lunch counter?
• Checkpoint (p.591): How did young people energize the civil rights movement in the 1960s?
• Thinking Critically (p.591): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.592): What did the freedom rides accomplish?
• Checkpoint (p.593): How did James Meredith and Martin Luther King Jr. prompt President Kennedy to promote civil rights?
• Checkpoint (p.595): What is considered the highlight of the March on Washington?
• Thinking Critically (p.595): Why was the March on Washington a symbolic and appropriate choice for a civil rights demonstration?
• Checkpoint (p.596): How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 try to end discrimination?
• Section 2 Assessment: 4, 5, 6
• Thinking Critically (p.597): #1 & 2
• Thinking Critically (p.599): #1 & 2

18.1: Early Demands for Equality

Chapter 18 Lesson 1: Early Demands for Equality

• Note Taking (p.580): Civil Rights Movement in order.  Use this for sections 2 and 3 as well.
• Map Skills (p.582): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.582): How did segregation affect the lives of African Americans?
• Checkpoint (p.584): Why was the Brown v. Board of Education decision important?
• Integrating Little Rock Schools (p.584): How is Eckford responding to the white students?
• Checkpoint (p.585): Why did President Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock?
• Thinking Critically (p.586): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.587): What role did Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., play in the Montgomery bus boycott?
• Section 1 Assessment (p.587): #1, 4, 5, 6
• Connect to Your World (p.588): Graph and Questions

17.3: Mass Culture and Family Life

Chapter 17 Section 3: Mass Culture and Family Life

• Checkpoint (p.561): What were some reasons why consumer spending skyrocketed in the postwar era?
• Checkpoint (p.562): In what ways did family life revolve around children during the 1950's?
• Thinking Critically (p.563): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.564): How did television reflect and reinforce the ideal of the nuclear family in the postwar period?
• Checkpoint (p.565): How did rock-and-roll gain popularity?
• Section 3 Assessment: #1 (consumerism and median family income), 4, 5, 6