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Question 1

Which statement best describes President Kennedy’s domestic agenda?

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Kennedy’s domestic agenda was an ambitious plan during a time of great change for the United States.

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Apollo program?

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to launch moon missions

Question 3

How did President Kennedy address civil rights?

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He proposed national civil rights legislation.

Question 4

President Kennedy signed laws that created education programs to help

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students of engineering.

Question 5

What effect did the Soviet Union’s sending a man into space in 1961 have on President Kennedy?

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It spurred him to set the goal of sending an American to the moon.

Question 6

President Kennedy’s domestic plan for the nation was called

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the New Frontier.

Question 7

Which best describes the purpose of the Peace Corps program?

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to help other nations improve their health care, agriculture, and education

Question 8

Which program did President Kennedy establish to help other nations?

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the Peace Corps

Question 9

During the early 1960s, NASA’s Mercury program

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sent Americans into space.

Question 10

Technologies developed during the Apollo program led to

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the computer revolution.

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