Final Flashcards
(35 cards)
What was President Ronald Reagan’s response to the decision by 13,000 air traffic controllers to go on strike in 1981?
He fired them all
Which of the following organizers played a key role in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Ella Baker
What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?
All the answers
- Ruled against segregated public schools
- extended the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment
- Overturned the legal logic of Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the policy that committed the U.S to doing whatever it could to stop the spread of communism
Containment
The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when
Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid
Which important even triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955?
The arrest of Rosa Parks
Nazi official paid little attention to racist laws in the U.S. when designing the Nuremburg laws (True or False)
False
How did Eisenhower respond to the efforts by “massive resistance” protestors to block the enrollment of black students?
He sent federal troops to escort the children into the school
Which of the following factors contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights act by Congress in 1964?
All of the Answers
- LBJ’s political skill when it came to convincing Southern Democrats
- National outrage over 1963 bombing in which 4 young girls were killed
- The assassination of JFK and the desire to honor his legacy
McCarthyists accused which of the following groups of communist ties?
All of the answers
- union members
- lesbians/gays
- civil rights activists
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 weakened which of the following pieces of legislation from the previous decade?
Wagner Act
Harlem Renaissance can best be described as
A time period where African Americans celebrated through music, art etc
The Truman Doctrine was used to justify American economic and military assistance to anti-communist regimes/movements (True or False)
True
Many of those deported as part of Mexican-American repatriation during the Great Depression were U.S. citizens ( True or False)
True
The Wagner Act and Social Security Act did NOT cover workers from which industries
Domestic Labor and Agriculture
Who did the Kennedy administration dispatch to protect the freedom riders?
U.S. Marshals
The Tax Reform Act of 1986:
Significantly decreased tax rates for wealthy Americans
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was:
A tax on goods imported into the U.S. from abroad
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Extended the right to vote to women throughout the U.S.
Which of the following was created during President Johnson’s Great Society initiative?
All of the answers
- Medicaid
- Jobs Corps
- Medicare
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 prohibited unions from doing which of the following?
All of the answers
- Mass picketing
- organizing secondary strikes/boycotts
- electing officials with ties to the Communist Party
The sit-ins that spread throughout the South in 1960 were organized primarily by
African American students
Which American politician is credited which pushing for passage of Great Society programs such as Job Corps?
Lyndon B. Johnson
The hysterical behavior of many anticommunists in the U.S. after World War ll
McCarthyism
