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Passed Civil Rights Act (1964)- outlawed most forms of racial segregation

Passed Civil Rights Act (1965) - outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing million of southern blacks to vote for the first time 

Passed Immigration Act of 1965 which allo

Lyndon B. Johnson (R) - 36th President

Background

• Born on August 27, 1908 in Stonewall, TX

• Married Claudia Alta Taylor

• 3 sisters 1 brother

• teacher

• Texas director of the NYA

• Brought electricity yo Texas Hill COuntry

• WWII became congressional inspector of the

Today we finished LBJ and started Nixon.

Affirmative action laws made white people have to accept minorities.

Great Society

Medicare Medicaid

Richard Nixon (37th)

Won Senate seat in 1950

Lost 1960 election to JFK

Won the 1968 election

Won the 1972 election

Ov

we talked about richard nixon

Lyndon B. Johnson:

• Affirmative action laws- forces colleges and business' to hire and allow minorities to go to their school
• Medicare and Medicaid were passed
• Declared war on poverty
• The Great Society- Gave money to public schools and aid to elderly
• Gun c

Richard Nixon

• Born on January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda California.
• Richard Milhous Nixon
• Won Senate seat(1950)
• Se;;ected by General Eisenhower to be running mate (2 years later)

Election

• Won the Republican party's nomination
• Ran against JFK and HArry F. Bird
• L

We contiued to take notes.

My Notes

I was sick these days 

warren commission  lee Oswald killed JFK by his self with no conspiracy  

conspiracy never died down 

sound file failed

magic bullet theory when the bullet did 180

grassy knoll thought someone fired in that area 

who might of killed JFK

the Cubans

USSR

us ma

Work days on President Project.

                   Dwight Eisenhower

• Background: born October 1890 in Denison Texas; tiny house near railroad tracks; father=david, Mother=Ida; West Point in free attendance, graduated top of class, stationed in Texas, Second Lieutanent and first afte

rest of Eisenhower

• he was never a politician and he never went into a voting booth in his life
• he had a 65% approval rating in office from 1953 to 1961

LBJ

• born august 27 1908
• he became a teacher
• first congressman to be in active duty

Today we took more notes on Kennedy and then went on to Eisenhower and LBJ.

President Eisenhower

-oct 14,1890-

-his brother died at age 6 from a disease

-he was a firefighter

-he was promoted to 1st lieutenant on his wedding day

-He was promoted to major i

Went over US map. Started to summarize the global warming book onto a google doc.

presented more projects. 

We are doing president presentations. 

Here are my notes 

JFK

• Jack Ruby
• Warren Commission - set to find the truth of Kennedy Assasination
• Grassy Knoll

Conspiracy Theories

• Cubans
• KGB (USSR)
• US Mafia
• CIA
• Zero Game

New Frontier

• education, medical, racism, economy
• equal pay act of 1963

LBJ

• 36th president
• Great Society
• Civil Ri

We finished talking about the Kennedy assassination. And we started talking about LBJ (Lyndon Banes Johnson)

John F. Kennedy-

the official government report said that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK but some Americans didn't believe it

conspiracy theories-

Harry Truman

*         33^rd president

*         May 8^th 1884 in Lamar, MO-died December 26^th 1972

*         Baptist

*         Married June 28,1919

*         Piano, avid reader, couldn’t afford to go to college

*         Give Em Hell Harry

*         Poor eye

Warren Comission

• 
  What they came back with was that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy by himself and there was no conspiracy

Conspiracy theories

• Report of the Select Committee on Assassination of the U.S House of Representatives
• 1978
• Said that JFK "was prob