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22 Cards in this Set
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mandate
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a set of wishes expressed to a candidate by his or her voters
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New Frontier
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President Kennedy's proposals to improve the economy, help the poor, and advance the space program
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Warren Commmission
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Commision, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that investigated the assassinations of President Kennedy
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Great Society
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President Lyndon Johnson's to aid public education, provide medical care for the elderly, and eliminate poverty
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Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
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Federal program organized to send volunteers to help people in poor communities
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Medicare
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Federal program that provides medical benefits for older Americans
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Medicaid
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Federal program that provides medical benefits to poor Americans
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Immigration Act of 1965
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Law that ended quotas for individual countries and replaced them with more flexible limits
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Miranda Rule
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Rule that police must inform persons accused of a crime of their legal rights
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Apportionment
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distribution of seats in a legislative body
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces into 1961
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Berlin Wall
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barrier built by the East German government in 1961 to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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1962 crisis that arose between the US and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba
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Limited Test Ban Treaty
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1963 treaty in which the US and the Soviet Union agreed not to test nuclear weapons above the ground
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Alliance for Progress
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President Kennedy's proposal for cooperation among nations of the Western Hemisphere to meet the basic needs of their people
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Peace Corps
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Federal Program established to send volunteers to help developing nations around the world
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Yuri Gagarin
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first human to travel in space (Soviet)
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Alan Shepard
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15 minute subortibal flight
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John Glenn
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three orbits around the Earth
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Oswald
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Shot Kennedy
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Jack Ruby
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Shot Oswald
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Earl Warren
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member of the Supreme Court were concerned with safe-gaurding the constitutional rights of the individual against the power of the state
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