Exam 13: Rights, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to achieve

Stagflation describes an economy that combines

What factor helped to spark the new wave of feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

When Martin Luther King Jr.was assassinated on April 4,1968,he was

What was the end result of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty?

How did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 address racial equality?

In the 1960s,the members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Drawing on the example of the Beats,the counterculture of the 1960s

In 1964,students at the University of California,Berkeley,held a large-scale protest in support of

How did most whites perceive civil rights activism by 1966?

"For years Columbia Trustees had evicted tenants from their homes,taken land through city deals,and fired workers for trying to form a union.For years they had trained officers for Vietnam who,as ROTC literature indicates,killed Vietnamese peasants in their own country.In secret work for the IDA [Institute for Defense Analysis] and the CIA,in chemical-biological war research for the Department of War,the Trustees implicated their own University in genocide.They had consistently ...lied to their own constituents and published CIA books under the guise of independent scholarship....Columbia,standing at the top of a hill,looked down on Harlem....People who survived in Harlem had been evicted by the Trustees from Morningside or still paid rent to Columbia....We walked to our classrooms across land that had been privatized; we studied in buildings that had once been homes in a city that is underhoused; and we listened to the apologies for Cold War and capital in our classes. Columbia professors often claim that the University is a neutral institution....A University could not,even if it wanted,choose to be really value-free.It can choose good values; it can choose bad values; or it can remain ignorant of the values on which it acts....A social institution should at least articulate its own perspective,so that its own values may be consciously applied or modified.It is a typical fallacy of American teaching,that to remain silent on crucial issues is to be objective with your own constituents.Actually a 'neutral' institution is far more manipulative than a University committed to avowed goals and tasks." What stance did the SDS take with regard to the notion that Columbia University is a "neutral institution"?

During the Nixon administration,the number of government assistance programs

What did the Medicare program provide?

Which of the following factors contributed to John F.Kennedy's win in the presidential election of 1960?

Which of the following describes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965?

The Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v.Wainwright (1963)that accused criminals were entitled to

How did the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren expand the Constitution's promise of equality and individual rights?

Who persuaded President Kennedy to create the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1961?

Out of all protest groups,President Nixon gave the most public support for justice to

Which of the following statements characterizes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?