Exit Tickets of 25&26

Question 1

Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John F. Kennedy

Answer 1

was reluctant to address the movement’s demands until 1963.

Question 2

In which of the following ways did the March on Washington expose tension within the movement?

Answer 2

Even though women played crucial roles within the movement, all speakers were men.

Question 3

To combat communism, one of John Kennedy’s first acts was to

Answer 3

create the Peace Corps.

Question 4

The Civil Rights Act

Answer 4

was seen by Lyndon Johnson as “a fitting memorial” to John F. Kennedy, after his assassination.

Question 5

How did John Kennedy’s inaugural address strike a different tone?

Answer 5

It urged Americans to move beyond the consumer culture of the 1950s.

Question 6

Who was Martin Luther King Jr. addressing in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?

Answer 6

a local clergyman

Question 7

What philosophy did the protesters at the Greensboro sit-in adhere to?

Answer 7

nonviolence

Question 8

In addition to prohibiting racial discrimination, what did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

Answer 8

It banned discrimination on the grounds of sex.

Question 9

In addition to sit-ins, other forms of direct action

Answer 9

attracted national attention, especially the 1961 “Freedom Rides.”

Question 10

During Freedom Summer

Answer 10

a coalition of civil rights groups launched a voter registration drive in Mississippi.

Question 11

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Answer 11

authorized the president to take “all necessary measures to repel armed attack” in Vietnam.

Question 12

What occurred at the 1968 Democratic Party convention?

Answer 12

Tens of thousands of antiwar activists staged protests.

Question 13

The free speech movement

Answer 13

began in Berkeley to protest a campus ban on political activism.

Question 14

Why did the United States continue to support South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem’s corrupt and weak regime?

Answer 14

Presidents Kennedy and Johnson feared losing Vietnam to communism.

Question 15

What did students of the New Left movement think was missing in American liberalism in the 1960s?

Answer 15

the practice of true participatory democracy

Question 16

Opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, such as Phyllis Schlafly, argued that the passage of the ERA would

Answer 16

take away a woman’s right to be a housewife.

Question 17

During the 1970s, the Sexual Revolution

Answer 17

started to form part of the social mainstream.

Question 18

During the 1970s, conservatives

Answer 18

insisted on more local control and resisted the power of the federal government.

Question 19

The Moral Majority

Answer 19

waged a “war against sin.”

Question 20

The Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 20

stated that equality of rights under the law could not be abridged on account of sex.

Question 21

Reaganomics initially produced what result in regard to the economy?

Answer 21

severe recession

Question 22

The “Second Gilded Age”

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could describe the 1980s, a decade where making deals was more profitable for companies than making products.

Question 23

Reagan’s economic policies

Answer 23

resulted in a rise in economic inequality.

Question 24

Which of the following formed part of the conservative agenda?

Answer 24

a strong critique of the welfare state

Question 25

How did trickle-down economics claim to increase government tax revenues?

Answer 25

by curbing inflation and lowering tax rates