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The Freedom Rides of 1961 traveled through which of the following states? |
Alabama and Mississippi |
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Why did the African-American civil rights protesters that marched in June 1963 in more than 186 cities not try more deliberately to avoid arrest? |
The very point of the protests was to illustrate the punitive nature of southern Jim Crow justice |
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How could Birmingham police chief Eugene Connor have undermined Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategy in Birmingham in May 1963? |
He could have allowed the protesters to march unimpeded |
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What did President John F. Kennedy have in common with his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower? |
Both tended to view the entire world through the lens of the Cold War |
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Why did John F. Kennedy consider civil rights a moral crisis for the nation? |
He found racial discrimination incompatible with the United States’ claim for leadership of the free world |
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What set President Lyndon Baines Johnson apart from his predecessor John F. Kennedy? |
He knew the meaning of poverty and racial injustice from his own life experience |
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Why did the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party emerge at the Democratic Party convention in Atlantic City in 1964? |
The MFDP challenged the state’s Democratic Party’s claim that it represented Mississippi fairly |
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Which of the following organizations does not belong in this group? |
YAF |
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What did the defeat of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater show? |
The civil rights movement had redrawn the political map and opened the South to the Republican Party |
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On what grounds could foreign nationals apply for immigrant status in the United States after 1965? |
Their family ties to U.S. citizens or other immigrants |
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Why are the riots in American cities during the 1960s best understood as battles? |
Urban blacks saw the predominantly white police force as an occupying army |
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What did students of the new left movement think was missing in American liberalism in the 1960s? |
The practice of true participatory democracy |
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In what ways did the counterculture represent the fulfillment of the consumer marketplace? |
The counterculture extended the concept of individual choice into every realm of life |
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The slogan of the March on Washington was "jobs and freedom" (T or F) |
True |
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John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy for Latin America called a revolution in Cuba (T or F) |
True |
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The Cuban Missile Crisis did nothing to change Kennedy’s attitudes toward the Cold War (T or F) |
False |
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At the outset of his presidency, John F. Kennedy regarded civil rights as his top priority (T or F) |
False |
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The Immigration Reform Act did not alter the rate or national origin of immigration after 1965 (T or F) |
False |
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Unlike the New Deal, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, not depression (T or F) |
True |
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Why did President Nixon embrace the Philadelphia Plan for affirmative action in the building trades? |
He was hoping to weaken the power of trade unions |
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Why did the fight over busing become so violent in Boston in the mid-1970s? |
Boston’s tightly knit Irish-American community in South Boston fought integration violently |
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What triggered the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia? |
The invasion of U.S. troops in 1970 |
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Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of the My Lai massacre? |
One person was found guilty in this killing of 350 civilians, but was released in 1974 |
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What led to the congressional discovery that the FBI had spied on millions of Americans in the 1960s? |
The Church Committee investigations |
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Why did conservatives have the last laugh in the Watergate scandal? |
Watergate proved the conservatives’ point that the power of the federal government had to be restricted |
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Which of the following comparisons of wage trends for 1953 to 1973 and 1973 to 1993 is accurate? |
Wages increased significantly in the first period but stagnated in the second |
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Why did President Carter cut off aid to Argentina in 1978? |
A brutal military dictatorship had emerged there, waging a dirty war against its own citizens |
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How did the experience of the 1960s shape America’s neoconservatives? |
Neoconservatives came to believe that even the best-intentional social programs did more harm than good |
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What setback did the advocates of the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 suffer in 1976? |
Congress overrode Ford’s veto and ended federal funding for abortion in the Medicaid program |
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How did trickle-down economics claim to increase government tax revenues? |
By lowering tax rates |
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What victory could cultural conservatives claim in 1986? |
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws banning homosexual acts |
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Richard Nixon appointed Earl Warren to chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1969 (T or F) |
False |
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Even during the energy crisis of the 1970s, the national economy grew (T or F) |
True |
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