Deck 29: Civil Rights and Uncivil Liberties 1947-1969

Question 1

The chapter introduction tells the story of a schoolgirl and a teacher to make the point that

A) education was an important focus of the liberal agenda for reform.
B) the civil rights movement's emphasis on integration actually proved a failure.
C) adult white southerners, steeped in racial stereotypes, could not adjust to school integration.
D) the wrenching changes of the 1960s, which affected most Americans, grew out of the social trends and conditions of the 1950s.

Answer 1

the wrenching changes of the 1960s, which affected most Americans, grew out of the social trends and conditions of the 1950s.

Question 2

Which of the following statements about the southern economy at the start of the 1960s is accurate?

A) The mechanization of cotton led to a dramatic increase in southerners engaging in farming as a profession.
B) Although southern wages increased, they did not come close to the national average.
C) The southern economy became increasingly regional.
D) Despite rising wages, job opportunities for black southerners declined.

Answer 2

Despite rising wages, job opportunities for black southerners declined.

Question 3

In the 1947 Texas desegregation order there was an exception: the first grade could continue to be segregated. What was the rationale for this exception?

A) language skills
B) social acclimation
C) first grade was optional
D) All of these answers are correct.

Answer 3

language skills

Question 4

What event, more than any other, catapulted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence?

A) the "I have a dream" speech
B) the Montgomery bus boycott
C) being jailed in Birmingham
D) his embrace of pacifism and nonviolence

Question 5

Martin Luther King Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies, different from those of the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?

A) Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance.
B) King's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention.
C) King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.
D) King proposed nonviolent confrontation instead of solely relying on the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.

Question 6

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked one of the great moments in the history of American reform. It did which of the following?

A) required that persons accused of crimes be informed of their rights and allowed to consult a lawyer
B) banned discrimination in private clubs
C) outlawed the use of literacy tests for voting
D) barred discrimination in public accommodations, like lunch counters and hotels

Question 7

The Economic Opportunity Act was "the most sweeping social welfare bill since the New Deal."Its provisions included all EXCEPT

A) the Job Corps.
B) the Peace Corps.
C) development loans to rural families and urban small businesses.
D) a billion dollars for a new Office of Economic Opportunity.

Question 8

Which of the following Warren Court rulings made it possible for Latinos to seek redress as a group rather than as individuals?

A) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
B) Delgado et al. v. Bastrop et al.
C) Hernández v. Texas
D) Griswold v. Connecticut

Question 9

What was the biggest civil rights issue facing African Americans in the North in the 1960s?

A) de jure segregation
B) a lack of civil right laws
C) de facto segregation
D) scientific racism

Question 10

The geographic reorientation of popular culture that occurred by the later 1960s was centered on the

A) West Coast.
B) Northeast.
C) Deep South.
D) Sun Belt.

Question 11

In the election of 1964, President Johnson was opposed by

A) Ronald Reagan.
B) Barry Goldwater.
C) David Eisenhower.
D) Theodore Green.

Question 12

Which of the following musicians shocked fans in 1965 by shifting to a "folk rock"style of music, singing songs that suggested that the old America was beyond redemption?

A) Buddy Holly
B) Elvis Presley
C) Bob Dylan
D) Jerry Garcia

Question 13

Which of the following presented the most divisive issue the Kennedy administration had to face?

A) the war in Vietnam
B) the civil rights movement
C) class divisions in America
D) labor union activism

Question 14

A series of decisions by the Warren Court in the 1960s were based on the Fourteenth Amendment's

A) search and seizure clause.
B) due process clause.
C) free speech clause.
D) necessary and proper clause.

Question 15

Pope John instructed the Vatican II council to examine which of the following issues?

A) birth control
B) atheism
C) poverty
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 16

What Harvard professor advised students to "Turn on to the scene, tune in to what is happening, and drop out..."?

A) Ken Kesey
B) Timothy Leary
C) Tom Wolfe
D) Hunter Thompson

Question 17

After World War II, the ________ used the judicial system as the center of its strategy to advance civil rights for African Americans.

Question 18

What important ideas influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s approach to civil rights protest? How did he put those ideas into practice?

Question 19

For what reason did the Supreme Court overturn Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education?

Question 20

What were three major achievements of the civil rights movement during the 1960s?

Question 21

In what ways did the New Left and the counterculture have roots in traditional American practices and beliefs?

Question 22

In what ways did the West Coast play a prominent role in the youth rebellion of the 1960s?

Question 23

Explain the major areas of social change sparked by decisions under the Warren Court.

Question 24

Explain how the Great Society fought its war on poverty.

Question 25

Explain how drugs, sexual experimentation, and rock music influenced the counterculture.

Question 26

In what ways did the student protest movements and civil rights campaigns of the 1960s arise out of the generally placid decade of the 1950s?

Question 27

Compare the achievements and shortcomings of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Question 28

Why did the nonviolent civil rights movement give way, on the eve of its greatest successes, to more radical black nationalism and a climate of violence?

Question 29

Why did music play such a large role in the youth rebellion of the 1960s?

Question 30

Describe what members of society were dissatisfied with Lyndon Johnson's liberal reform and what caused their dissatisfaction.

Question 31

Defend or attack the use of civil disobedience as a strategy in the civil rights movement, using Martin Luther King Jr.'s early career as an example of the technique.