Question 1

Describe the massive civil rights march on Washington, D.C., in August 1963. Who attended? Who was the main speaker, and what did he talk about?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
March on W

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  The wholesale abandonment of the workplace by women after World War II 
B)  The declining number of women attending institutions of higher education 
C)  The federal government's efforts to challenge women's traditional domestic roles 
D)  An escalating number of women performing paid jobs in the workplace 
A)  The wholesale abandonment of the workplace by women after World War II 
B)  The declining number of women attending institutions of higher education 
C)  The federal government's efforts to challenge women's traditional domestic roles 
D)  An escalating number of women performing paid jobs in the workplace

Question 3

Match the term with the definition.
-1973 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution protects the right to abortion, which states cannot prohibit in the early stages of pregnancy. The decision galvanized social conservatives and made abortion a controversial policy issue for decades to come.

Accepted Answer

A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court 
A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court

Question 4

Like black nationalist organizations, La Raza Unida

Accepted Answer

A)  rejected appeals to cultural pride and brotherhood. 
B)  paid little attention to economic justice and police brutality. 
C)  made cultural pride and brotherhood a central part of its agenda. 
D)  placed the concerns of women at the top of its agenda. 
A)  rejected appeals to cultural pride and brotherhood. 
B)  paid little attention to economic justice and police brutality. 
C)  made cultural pride and brotherhood a central part of its agenda. 
D)  placed the concerns of women at the top of its agenda.

Question 5

Match the term with the definition.
-Mobilization of Mexican Americans in the 1960s and 1970s to fight for civil rights, economic justice, and political power and to combat police brutality. Most notably, the movement worked to improve the lives of migrant farmworkers and to end discrimination in employment and education.

Accepted Answer

A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court 
A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court

Question 6

Phyllis Schlafly is most closely associated with

Accepted Answer

A)  the effort to liberalize abortion laws. 
B)  the conservative challenge to feminism in the 1970s. 
C)  the effort to gain equal access to medical and law schools for women. 
D)  the protest of the Miss America Pageant in 1968. 
A)  the effort to liberalize abortion laws. 
B)  the conservative challenge to feminism in the 1970s. 
C)  the effort to gain equal access to medical and law schools for women. 
D)  the protest of the Miss America Pageant in 1968.

Question 7

How did African Americans' struggle for civil rights influence the struggles of Native Americans, Latinos, and women?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Inspiratio

Question 8

Discuss the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964 and the civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, the following year. What were their common goals? What was the outcome of each?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Mississipp

Question 9

Match the term with the definition.
-Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966. Initially, it focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace, but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.

Accepted Answer

A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court 
A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court

Question 10

What was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)? Who joined it, and what issues concerned its members?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Students f

Question 11

Match the term with the definition.
-Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations illegal. It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.

Accepted Answer

A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court 
A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court

Question 12

In its 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, the Supreme Court invalidated state laws banning what?

Accepted Answer

A)  Black voting 
B)  Restrictive covenants 
C)  Interracial marriage 
D)  Segregated schools 
A)  Black voting 
B)  Restrictive covenants 
C)  Interracial marriage 
D)  Segregated schools

Question 13

In the months before his death, President Kennedy had been pursuing initiatives such as

Accepted Answer

A)  tax increases on the wealthy and an increase in munitions development. 
B)  programs to expand welfare, health care benefits, and federal education loans. 
C)  programs to attack poverty, grow the economy, and promote civil rights. 
D)  legislation to reverse policies previously established by the New Deal and Fair Deal. 
A)  tax increases on the wealthy and an increase in munitions development. 
B)  programs to expand welfare, health care benefits, and federal education loans. 
C)  programs to attack poverty, grow the economy, and promote civil rights. 
D)  legislation to reverse policies previously established by the New Deal and Fair Deal.

Question 14

What did President Lyndon B. Johnson bring to the White House?

Accepted Answer

A)  Little experience in the political arena 
B)  Enormous skill in persuading and threatening legislators 
C)  Insufficient political power to pass Kennedy's legislation 
D)  A strong commitment to avoiding further involvement in Vietnam 
A)  Little experience in the political arena 
B)  Enormous skill in persuading and threatening legislators 
C)  Insufficient political power to pass Kennedy's legislation 
D)  A strong commitment to avoiding further involvement in Vietnam

Question 15

Match the term with the definition.
-Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities, including poverty and police harassment. The organization mobilized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and win greater control over their cultures and communities.

Accepted Answer

A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court 
A) American Indian Movement (AIM) 
B) black power movement 
C) Chicano movement 
D) Civil Rights Act of 1964 
E) Environmental Protection Agency (EP
A) 
F)Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
G)Medicare and Medicaid
H)National Organization for Women (NOW)
I)Roe v. Wade
J)Voting Rights Act of 1965
K)War on Poverty
L)Warren Court

Question 16

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren interpreted the Constitution in ways that required the government to actually prevent injustice and discrimination. Explain this statement by citing specific Supreme Court decisions made between 1953 and 1969.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Brown v. B

Question 17

According to the map titled "Civil Rights Freedom Rides, May 1961," which of the following is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  More attacks happened in Mississippi that anywhere else. 
B)  The Freedom Rides moved southeast, ending in Florida. 
C)  No Freedom Riders traveled completely from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. 
D)  The Freedom Rides were attacked in every state from Virginia to Mississippi. 
A)  More attacks happened in Mississippi that anywhere else. 
B)  The Freedom Rides moved southeast, ending in Florida. 
C)  No Freedom Riders traveled completely from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. 
D)  The Freedom Rides were attacked in every state from Virginia to Mississippi.

Exam 28: Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction

Describe the massive civil rights march on Washington, D.C., in August 1963. Who attended? Who was the main speaker, and what did he talk about?

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

Match the term with the definition. -1973 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution protects the right to abortion, which states cannot prohibit in the early stages of pregnancy. The decision galvanized social conservatives and made abortion a controversial policy issue for decades to come.

Like black nationalist organizations, La Raza Unida

Phyllis Schlafly is most closely associated with

How did African Americans' struggle for civil rights influence the struggles of Native Americans, Latinos, and women?

Discuss the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964 and the civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, the following year. What were their common goals? What was the outcome of each?

Match the term with the definition. -Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966. Initially, it focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace, but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.

What was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)? Who joined it, and what issues concerned its members?

Match the term with the definition. -Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations illegal. It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.

In its 1967 Loving v. Virginia decision, the Supreme Court invalidated state laws banning what?

In the months before his death, President Kennedy had been pursuing initiatives such as

What did President Lyndon B. Johnson bring to the White House?

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren interpreted the Constitution in ways that required the government to actually prevent injustice and discrimination. Explain this statement by citing specific Supreme Court decisions made between 1953 and 1969.

According to the map titled "Civil Rights Freedom Rides, May 1961," which of the following is true?

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