Reference no: EM13242618
1. In the 1960 election,
a) kennedy won decisively over Nixon in popular votes but barely won in the electoral college.
b) nixon was extremely impressive on television.
c) the traditional democratic coalition first assembled by Franklin D. Rossevelt suffered a significant erosion in the loss of white southern votes to the republicans.
d) there were confirmed cases of voting fraud in Illinois, which Kennedy won by a slim margin; it was one of the states that gave him his narrow margin of victory.
2. The federal Writer's project
a) attempted to publish a set of state guidebooks but was blocked by objections from private publishers
b) supported young writers, such as Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olson, Richard Wright, and John Cheever
c) was headed by Jackson Pollock
d) at its height employed about 50,000 writers
3. In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of
a) pomographic magazines and films
b) firearms
c) alcohol
d) contraceptive devices.
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