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

Question 1

How did the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 change U.S.immigration policy?

A) It stopped all immigration from China.
B) It extended the national-origins quota system.
C) It removed all restrictions on immigration.
D) It abolished the national-origins quota system.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

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.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In 1965,President Johnson became the first president to send Congress a special message on

A) political conditions in Southeast Asia.
B) the national security threat posed by terrorism.
C) the dawning of the computer age.
D) the condition of the environment.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What did the Warren Commission conclude about the assassination of President Kennedy?

A) There had been a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.
B) Both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone.
C) There was not enough evidence to determine the facts underlying the assassination.
D) The assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist plot.

Question 5

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

A) It required the implementation of programs for gifted students in underperforming K-12 schools.
B) It sent federal money to local school districts with high poverty populations.
C) It neglected to provide support for private and parochial schools serving poor students.
D) It provided federal funds only to districts that had implemented significant desegregation measures in K-12 schools.

Question 6

In its 1963 decision in Baker v.Carr,the Supreme Court established

A) the principle of one person,one vote for state and national legislatures.
B) states' duty to provide counsel to indigent people accused of crimes.
C) the unconstitutionality of Bible-reading and prayer in public schools.
D) the requirement that police officers inform criminal suspects of their rights.

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

What did the Medicare program provide?

A) Universal compulsory insurance for the elderly
B) Health insurance coverage for all people on welfare
C) Hospital insurance only for those in need
D) Free prescription drug coverage for the elderly

Question 9

What aspect of the Black Panther Party might have most unnerved white Americans?

A) Its militancy
B) Its attempts to provide free breakfast to children
C) Its use of popular culture and media to disseminate its message
D) Its belief that African Americans were mistreated

Question 10

What made the Community Action Program (CAP)the most controversial part of the War on Poverty programs?

A) Its beneficiaries were given no voice in its direction.
B) It promised to be an extremely expensive program that might not work.
C) Few believed its key element,the Job Corps,had any chance of success.
D) It required the maximum feasible participation of the poor it proposed to help.

Question 11

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

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 12

What was the result of the election of 1964?

A) Hubert Humphrey came close to winning the Electoral College vote.
B) Barry Goldwater ran a close race against Lyndon Johnson in the popular vote.
C) Lyndon Johnson was elected president in a record-breaking landslide.
D) The Republicans increased their majorities in Congress.

Question 13

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

A) It did not significantly redistribute total national income.
B) It led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting even poorer.
C) It did not significantly change or reduce national rates of poverty.
D) It led to the complete elimination of poverty for select individuals.

Question 14

What was the outcome of the National Housing Act of 1968?

A) A mandate for subsidized housing for all people living in poverty
B) A requirement that adults in subsidized housing prove that they had jobs
C) The decision to keep construction and ownership of low-income housing in the private sector
D) The government's denial that it was responsible for providing low-cost housing

Question 15

To eradicate poverty and solve most social problems,President Kennedy believed the United States needed to

A) grow the economy.
B) control runaway inflation.
C) have a strong military presence.
D) redistribute wealth through its tax policy.

Question 16

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

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.

Question 17

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

A) a reading of their rights.
B) certain jail privileges,such as phone calls.
C) a prompt hearing before a judge.
D) a lawyer.

Question 18

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

A) His willingness to speak out against McCarthyism
B) The African American vote
C) His impressive political experience
D) Support from moderate Republicans

Question 19

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

A) It initially rejected the principles of Martin Luther King Jr.
B) It initially organized peaceful demonstrations using civil disobedience.
C) It staged nonviolent strategies that met with almost immediate success.
D) It was founded as a centralized and hierarchical organization.

Question 20

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

A) It strictly limited government activism.
B) It supported an activist government.
C) It denied accused criminals state-appointed lawyers.
D) It supported Bible reading and prayer in public schools.

Question 21

What was the event that sparked a larger movement to end discrimination against gay men and lesbians in 1969?

A) A police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City
B) A protest outside the Miss America pageant
C) The occupation of the national American Psychiatric Association Convention
D) The assassination of New York's first openly gay city councilor

Question 22

Like black nationalist organizations,La Raza Unida

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 23

How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 transform southern politics?

A) It empowered the federal government to intervene directly to enable African Americans to register and vote.
B) It recalled every legislator and state and local official that had been elected by a white electorate.
C) It gave the Supreme Court the power to nullify state elections in which blacks were deprived of their voting rights.
D) It mandated a basic literacy test for voters of all races,not just blacks.

Question 24

What happened at a massive civil rights demonstration in the nation's capital in August 1963?

A) Fighting broke out between white and black participants.
B) Martin Luther King Jr.gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
C) Riot police randomly clubbed hundreds of protesters and dispersed crowds with tear gas.
D) Martin Luther King Jr.alienated most white Americans with an inflammatory speech.

Question 25

What was Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

A) An extension of voting rights in the South
B) A ban on discrimination,including gender discrimination,in employment
C) A law that prohibited discrimination in restaurants and hotels
D) A law that mandated the integration of public education

Question 26

How did President Johnson respond to the Bloody Sunday event of 1965?

A) He called up the National Guard to protect the marchers.
B) He did not take any action at all.
C) He allowed Governor George Wallace to cancel the march.
D) He jailed SNCC chairman John Lewis.

Question 27

"Wayne students are told by the Left that "student power" merely means more democracy on campus.This is an outright lie! Student power is a Left-Wing catchword symbolizing campus militancy and radicalism.In actuality,the Left-Wing,spearheaded by the SDS,want to radically alter the university community.... The Leftists charge a sinister plot by private enterprise to train students for jobs at taxpayers' expense.Evidently it never occurred to the SDS that private enterprise is also the biggest single taxpayer for schools.But,of course,that would require a little thought on the part of the SDS which they have already demonstrated they are incapable of....
The byword of student power-union advocates is Radicalism....Fraternities and student Governments will have no place in student power-unions since both are considered allies of the status quo and thus useless....As responsible Wayne students,we cannot allow our University to be used by Leftists for their narrow purposes."
According to the student organization Counterthrust,what did the phrase "student power" signify?

A) Campus militancy and radicalism
B) Sincere efforts to make campuses more democratic
C) An attempt to align students with other oppressed minorities
D) The desire of students to peaceably reason with university administrators and others in power

Question 28

"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"?

A) It agrees with this estimation.
B) It believes that universities have the capacity to be neutral,but that Columbia is particularly biased.
C) It believes that it is impossible for universities to be neutral institutions,and thus they should make careful value judgments.
D) It believes that it is impossible for a university to be value-free,but that this ideal should be strived for.

Question 29

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

A) By mandating a system of busing for all public school students
B) Through a ban on discrimination in housing and jury selection
C) Through the prohibition of literacy requirements for black voters
D) By forbidding the FBI to investigate civil rights leaders

Question 30

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to achieve

A) improved conditions of migrant farmworkers in California.
B) coursework on Mexican history in public schools.
C) fewer and less strict restrictions on immigration from Mexico.
D) higher wages for Mexican American factory workers in California canneries.

Question 31

Where did Malcolm X attract an especially large following?

A) Rural areas of the South
B) Southern suburbs
C) Poor areas of the Sun Belt
D) Northern urban ghettoes

Question 32

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

A) revered the writings of the Brontë sisters.
B) rejected mainstream values such as materialism.
C) insisted that the ends justified their violent means.
D) believed that a citizen's first responsibility was to society.

Question 33

In 1965,President Johnson issued an executive order to require employers holding government contracts

A) to give pay raises to African American workers.
B) to take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity.
C) to give pay raises to women workers.
D) to hire minorities based on a federally mandated quota.

Question 34

According to Map 28.2: The Rise of the African American Vote,1940-1976,what southern state was the first in which more than 80 percent of eligible African Americans registered to vote?

A) Arkansas
B) Texas
C) Georgia
D) Tennessee

Question 35

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

A) were young,politically naïve,middle-class rebels who raised a lot of trouble but had few concrete goals.
B) were idealistic young people with too much time on their hands and too little commitment to change.
C) wanted to mobilize a New Left around the goals of civil rights,peace,and universal economic security.
D) hoped to convince more radical organizations to work within the system,which they saw as more effective.

Question 36

By 1966,the civil rights movement in the United States

A) had reconfirmed its commitment to nonviolence.
B) had achieved most of its major goals.
C) was no longer committed to nonviolence.
D) had been forced underground by continuing violence.

Question 37

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

A) free speech.
B) a ban on nuclear weapons.
C) an end to the Vietnam War.
D) freedom of thought.

Question 38

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

A) leading a march in Atlanta.
B) demonstrating on Chicago's South Side.
C) supporting a municipal garbage workers' strike in Memphis.
D) giving a speech to support fair housing in Tallahassee.

Question 39

How did most whites perceive civil rights activism by 1966?

A) They still supported civil rights activism.
B) They thought that blacks were pressing for too much too quickly.
C) They sympathized with black power advocates' calls for independence.
D) They felt that activists were unjustly persecuted by racist police officers.

Question 40

As the radical chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,Stokely Carmichael

A) called for blacks to form their own political organizations.
B) called whites devils who are inherently evil.
C) advocated extreme violence as a way to achieve racial equality.
D) started the back-to-Africa movement.

Question 41

Why were women of color critical of white women's feminist organizations?

A) White feminists ignored the poverty faced by many minority women.
B) White feminist groups only focused on achieving voting rights for women.
C) White feminists seemed indifferent to the problems of women in the workplace.
D) White feminist organizations failed to support women who were running for office.

Question 42

Which of the following is an example of the sweeping change forged by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s?

A) Woman suffrage
B) The adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment
C) Passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972
D) The end of gender discrimination in most workplaces

Question 43

Stagflation describes an economy that combines

A) unemployment with inflation.
B) low interest rates with deflation.
C) rapid growth with inflation.
D) rapid growth with recession.

Question 44

During the Nixon administration,the number of government assistance programs

A) was reduced drastically.
B) did not change.
C) actually grew.
D) fluctuated throughout the course of the term.

Question 45

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

A) Lyndon Johnson
B) Esther Peterson
C) Betty Friedan
D) Pauli Murray

Question 46

The new environmentalists of the 1970s broadened the agenda of the Progressive-era conservation movement by

A) focusing attention on the ravaging effects of industrial development on human life and health.
B) shifting attention away from land preservation and toward the preservation of threatened species.
C) focusing attention on preserving the natural world for recreational and esthetic purposes.
D) supporting limited oil drilling in the already developed regions of Alaska.

Question 47

The radical feminist movement differed from the National Organization for Women and other mainstream feminist organizations in that

A) it ignored women's subordination in the family and in other personal relationships.
B) radical women focused on equal treatment of women in the public sphere.
C) it focused primarily on equal treatment for women in the workplace.
D) radical feminists sought fundamental changes in the nation's institutions.

Question 48

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

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 49

Phyllis Schlafly is most closely associated with

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 50

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

A) Latinos.
B) Native Americans.
C) blacks.
D) Asian Americans.