PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Send more juvenile delinquents to jail
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discourage adolescents from read science fiction
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limit the amount of television that children watched
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improve math and science education
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the United States change its approach to science after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957? it established the National Defense Education Act in order to encourage scientific advancement in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Though Sputnik was a relatively simple satellite compared with the more complex machines to follow, its beeping signal from space galvanized the United States to enact reforms in science and engineering education so that the nation could regain technological ground it appeared to have lost to its Soviet rival.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 changed that. In the first half of the 20th century, U.S. educators shunned homework. The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 changed that. Middle-schoolers who trudge home each day with a 50-pound backpack and hours of homework would have had an easier time in 1901.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sputnik launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race, and led to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).