Deck 11: Coming Apart at Home

Question 1

The Black Power movement grew out of

A) A group of SCLC members who were disenchanted with Dr. King
B) The NAACP youth branch
C) The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
D) The Communist Party USA

Answer 1

C

Question 2

When Fannie Lou Hamer registered to vote in August 1962, she

A) Was evicted
B) Was jailed
C) Was beaten
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Experiencing the poverty of rural Black residents of the South made SNCC workers

A) Grateful for what they had
B) Realize that voting rights offered only a partial answer to their problems
C) Understand the true nature of racism
D) Begin encouraging Black southerners to move North

Answer 3

B

Question 4

SNCC workers became increasingly skeptical about the possibilities of change through legal channels because of

A) The FBI's failure to protect SNCC voter registration workers in the South.
B) The slow-moving nature of Supreme Court cases designed to test segregation
C) Congress didn't move fast enough on civil rights legislation
D) Older civil rights leaders' lack of support

Question 5

The first sign of deteriorating bonds between the SCLC and the SNCC came

A) At the Shaw University conference where the SNCC formed independently of the SCLC
B) At the Freedom Rides
C) When the SNCC felt unsupported during the Mississippi voter registration drives
D) At the March on Washington

Question 6

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's purpose was to

A) Challenge white control of the Democratic Party in Mississippi
B) Prove that Black Mississippians had the ability to vote
C) Challenge Lyndon Johnson's nomination for the presidency
D) Prove that Democrats had a chance of being elected in Mississippi

Question 7

-What image is the design of this poster meant to evoke?

A) A victorious athlete
B) The Statue of Liberty
C) A mountain
D) The Empire State Building

Question 8

Students for a Democratic Society were critical of

A) Nuclear proliferation
B) The conformity required by universities
C) The southern reaction to the civil rights movement
D) All of the above

Question 9

The early SDS members were optimistic that

A) Change could take place within existing institutions
B) America could become a socialist state
C) Slow and steady change was the best type
D) They could overthrow the government

Question 10

Many of the white students who joined the SDS had learned about activist work from

A) Their religious upbringings
B) The example of student movements in Europe
C) Working with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in the South
D) The example of their parents' work during World War II

Question 11

The Free Speech Movement was founded at

A) Harvard
B) Berkeley
C) The University of Mississippi
D) New York University

Question 12

The white student movement found its primary cause in

A) The civil rights movement
B) The women's movement
C) The free speech movement
D) The anti-Vietnam War movement

Question 13

During the postwar era, the idea that a woman's place was in the home was destroyed by

A) An outbreak of feminist protests
B) The massive increase of women in the workplace
C) The invention of the birth control pill
D) The civil rights movement

Question 14

_______ was the author of The Feminine Mystique

A) Betty Friedan
B) Ella Baker
C) Shirley Chisholm
D) Gloria Steinem

Question 15

The National Organization for Women was formed by feminist activists in 1966 to

A) Promote nonviolent direct action
B) Move women toward radicalism
C) Use political pressure and litigation to achieve equal treatment
D) Promote traditional values

Question 16

The SNCC and the SDS both played an important role in the women's movement by

A) Encouraging women to take on equal roles
B) Promoting women into leadership positions
C) Publicly supporting women's organizations like NOW
D) Dismissing women's concerns and treating them as second class

Question 17

The primary organizing vehicle of the women's liberation movement was

A) Nonviolent direct action protests
B) Publishing books and articles on women's equality
C) Consciousness-raising sessions to promote mutual support
D) Joining older women's organizations like NOW and the League of Women Voters

Question 18

A counter-reaction of white, middle-class Americans to civil rights was driven by

A) Economic insecurity
B) A crisis of cultural values
C) Ethnic competition
D) All of the above

Question 19

The ability of the Johnson administration to tackle the problems of poverty and inequality was undermined by

A) The amount of money spent on the Vietnam War
B) Johnson's waffling on civil rights issues
C) Lack of political will
D) All of the above

Question 20

Johnson saw his leadership role during the Vietnam War as analogous to that of

A) Wilson during World War I
B) FDR during World War II
C) Lincoln during the Civil War
D) All of the above