Question 1

What were the terms and provisions of each of the three civil rights bills passed in the 1960s?

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Answer would ideally include:
Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 guaranteed access for all Americans to public accommodations, public education, employment, and voting, thus ending the southern system of segregation and discrimination. It also extended constitutional protections to Indians on reservations and banned racial and gender discrimination in employment.
Voting Act of 1965: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 empowered the federal government to intervene directly to enable African Americans to register and vote.
Civil Rights Act of 1968: The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned racial discrimination in housing and jury selection and authorized federal intervention when states failed to protect civil rights workers from violence.

Question 2

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-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 1965G) Medicare and MedicaidH) National Organization for Women (NOW) I) Roe v. WadeJ) Voting Rights Act of 1965K) War on PovertyL) Warren Court D

Question 3

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

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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. A

Question 4

How did most whites perceive civil rights activism by 1966?

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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 5

What 1969 event became the most dramatic action taken by militant Indians in the United States?

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A)   A hostile takeover of a federal building in Washington, D.C., for two weeks
B)   Local Indian activists' seizure and occupation of Alcatraz Island
C)   Apaches damming of the Colorado River, causing flooding in Colorado
D)   Sioux Indians holding South Dakota legislators hostage for twenty-one days

Question 6

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

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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 7

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

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

Question 8

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-President Lyndon Johnson's efforts, organized through the Office of Economic Opportunity, to ameliorate poverty primarily through education and training and by including the poor in decision making.

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 1965G) Medicare and MedicaidH) National Organization for Women (NOW) I) Roe v. WadeJ) Voting Rights Act of 1965K) War on PovertyL) Warren Court

Question 9

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

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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 10

How did conservative activists and the Republican administration of Richard Nixon respond to the dramatic changes of the 1960s and early 1970s?

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Question 11

To what extent did liberal policies and programs extend into the Nixon administration?

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Question 12

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

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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 13

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

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

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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 15

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
-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 1965G) Medicare and MedicaidH) National Organization for Women (NOW) I) Roe v. WadeJ) Voting Rights Act of 1965K) War on PovertyL) Warren Court

Question 16

Stagflation describes an economy that combines

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

Question 17

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

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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 18

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

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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 19

Why did the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organize the Freedom Rides in 1961?

Accepted Answer

A)   To transport African American voters to the polls
B)   To commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the United States
C)   To provide free transportation to poor people of all races in the South
D)   To integrate interstate transportation in the South

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 28: Rights, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960-1974