history final

Question 1

What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?

Answer 1

Riots broke out

Question 2

What were Jim Crow laws?

Answer 2

Laws that enforced the strict separation of the races

Question 3

How long did the Montgomery buy boycott last?

Answer 3

More than a year

Question 4

How did the Black Panthers exemplify the idea of “black power”?

Answer 4

The Black Panthers developed programs for African Americans to help themselves and their communities

Question 5

When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed that they had been

Answer 5

Murdered

Question 6

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of what?

Answer 6

Race

Question 7

Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Answer 7

President Johnson

Question 8

Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign?

Answer 8

Because it was considered the most segregated city in the south

Question 9

How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 limit states’ rights?

Answer 9

It empowered federal officials with overseeing voting registrations and elections

Question 10

What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King’s assassination?

Answer 10

The Fair Housing Act

Question 11

While in prison, Malcom X became converted to what?

Answer 11

The Nation of Islam

Question 12

Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?

Answer 12

NAACP

Question 13

Not long after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans in several cities did what?

Answer 13

Rioted

Question 14

What was the significance of Hernandez v Texas?

Answer 14

It extended the Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans

Question 15

To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African Americans students?

Answer 15

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 16

What is an argument that people used to prevent affirmative action?

Answer 16

It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society

Question 17

In a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court did what?

Answer 17

Ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v Board of Education

Question 18

Why were many Americans surprised when President Johnson supported civil rights?

Answer 18

He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters

Question 19

Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?

Answer 19

Jackie Robinson

Question 20

The members of the Congress Racial Equality (CORE) believed what?

Answer 20

That direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans

Question 21

How did protesters force President Kennedy to actively promote civil rights?

Answer 21

The staged demonstrations were brutal white responses that were converted in the media

Question 22

The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as what?

Answer 22

Bloody Sunday

Question 23

Malcom X

Answer 23

best known African American radical activist

Question 24

De jure segregation

Answer 24

Racial separation imposed by law

Question 25

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 25

Banned literacy tests for voter registration

Question 26

James Meredith

Answer 26

Helped NAACP with desegregation case against "Ole Miss"

Question 27

Black power

Answer 27

Terms coined by SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael

Question 28

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 28

African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation

Question 29

Kerner Commission

Answer 29

Attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots

Question 30

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 30

Case that overturned Plessy v Ferguson

Question 31

Freedom ride

Answer 31

Bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes

Question 32

Freedom Summer

Answer 32

A massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi

Question 33

What effect did the Cold War have on the American Space program?

Answer 33

Competition with the Soviet Union spurred American space missions

Question 34

The purpose of the Civil Rights Act was to

Answer 34

Fight discrimination based on race and sex

Question 35

Which of these came first in Johnson's War on poverty?

Answer 35

The Economic Opportunity Act

Question 36

As a result of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Answer 36

Nearly 40 countries ended above ground nuclear tests

Question 37

What Khrushchev request did President Kennedy deny at their 1961 conference in Vienna?

Answer 37

To recognize the formal division of Germany and end the American occupation of West Berlin

Question 38

Why was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 necessary?

Answer 38

Existing American immigration policies were discriminatory

Question 39

On what fundamental belief did Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater differ?

Answer 39

The proper role of government

Question 40

The Warren Court often made rulings that did what?

Answer 40

Supported civil liberties

Question 41

Kennedy's military policies encouraged more funding for (which was different from Eisenhower)

Answer 41

The traditional war preparations

Question 42

After the assassination, President Kennedy was succeeded by who?

Answer 42

Lyndon Johnson

Question 43

How did President Kennedy initially approach civil rights policies?

Answer 43

Cautiously

Question 44

How did Kennedy jump-start the economic growth of the late 1960s?

Answer 44

Deficit spending, business tax credits, middle-class tax cuts, higher taxes on the rich

Question 45

Read the following text and then answer the question. "Our prosperity rests on the basic (beliefs) that thee work of free individuals makes a nation- and it is the job of Governmen to help them do the best they can... that our greatest resource is the health and skills and knowledge of our people...that older Americans...are entitled to live out their lives in dignity...that individual farmers and individual workers have a right to some protect against those forced which might deprive them on a decent income from the fruits of their labor" According to Johnson the primary goal of government is to do what?

Answer 45

Support individual effort

Question 46

What did President Kennedy's domestic agenda primarily fight?

Answer 46

Poverty

Question 47

Which of these was a result of the Equal Pay Act?

Answer 47

x

Question 48

From his time in Congress, Johnson was known for his skills in what?

Answer 48

Compromise

Question 49

The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to overthrow

Answer 49

Fidel Castro

Question 50

As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 what happened?

Answer 50

x

Question 51

The Warren Commission concluded what?

Answer 51

Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy's assassination

Question 52

What was one result of the Great Society?

Answer 52

The lives of many underprivileged Americans improved

Question 53

As a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis what happened to Khrushchev?

Answer 53

He declined in national politics

Question 54

Which of these groups benefited from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?

Answer 54

Inner city schools

Question 55

John F. Kennedy's opponent in 1960 was who?

Answer 55

Richard Nixon

Question 56

New Frontier

Answer 56

x

Question 57

Medicaid

Answer 57

x

Question 58

Warren Comission

Answer 58

x

Question 59

Berlin Wall

Answer 59

x

Question 60

Civil Rights Act

Answer 60

x

Question 61

Richard Nixon

Answer 61

x

Question 62

Fidel Castro

Answer 62

x

Question 63

Deficient spending

Answer 63

x

Question 64

Great Society

Answer 64

x

Question 65

Flexible response

Answer 65

x

Question 66

President Johnson entered the Vietnam War because he did what?

Answer 66

Believed in the domino theory