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Question #1
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
A.   Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations
B.   Provided for punishment of people who discriminated against racial groups
C.   Protected black voting rights by sending federal registrars to southern districts
D.   Eliminated poll taxes
E.   All of these
Question #2
When Betty Friedan identified “the problem with no name,” what did she refer to?
A.   A common medical condition among women that doctors had not yet identified.
B.   The shared feeling among women that they were unhappy with their middle-class lives but could not openly discuss this unhappiness.
C.   The lack of access to safe and legal abortions.
D.   The fact that homosexuality had to be closeted.
E.   Radical feminists.
Question #3
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail is significant to the Civil Rights Movement because it
A.   started an uprising at the jail that eventually led to King and other protestors escaping.
B.   Expressed his frustration with the American involvement in Vietnam,thus lending support to the antiwar movement.
C.   caused a number of violent protests that resulted the death of many leaders of the movement.
D.   Convinced President Kennedy to pass the Civil Rights Act.
E.   defended non-violent protests and sparked greater attention to the movement
Question #4
How did Black Power differ from the SCLC?
A.   It focused on violent resistance.
B.   Its focus was on separation rather than integration of the black community.
C.   It found little support among African Americans.
D.   It lacked strong leadership.
E.   It focused on media spectacle rather than work in the communities.
Question #5
Which statement describes the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964?
A.   Its major goal was to register black voters in the deep South.
B.   It brought to the surface racial tensions among the black and white volunteers.
C.   All of these are accurate statements.
D.   It was characterized by violence against and intimidation of the volunteers.
E.   It signaled the growing cracks within the civil rights movement over goals.
Question #6
The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973
A.   Guaranteed equal pay for equal work for women
B.   Protected women’s access to abortion under the right to privacy
C.   Protected free speech on college campuses
D.   Supported bilingual education in schools.
E.   Eliminated gender discrimination in education
Question #7
Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. were similar in that they both
A.   Failed to gain support from the Kennedy administration.
B.   started by getting federal laws passed to further their causes.
C.   relied on nonviolent protests and boycotts to further their causes.
D.   Turned to advocating violent confrontation after failing to achieve their goals.
E.   worked hard to improve conditions for California farmers.
Question #8
What was the core issue raised by the farm worker strikes organized by the United Farm Workers?
A.   They demanded better wages and safer working conditions.
B.   They wanted to protect the rights of the growing number of undocumented farm workers.
C.   They wanted more funding to develop efficient technologies.
D.   They wanted access to education for their children.
E.   All of these
Question #9
The urban race riots of the 1960s and the emergence of black nationalism were the result of
A.   a shift in the tactics of the SCLC from passive resistance to violent confrontation.
B.   the Watts riot in Los Angeles in 1965.
C.   the deterioration of the social and economic conditions of many urban blacks in the Northern states
D.   communist infiltration of civil rights groups.
E.   denial of the right to vote to northern African Americans.
Question #10
Which of the following national movements was the first to focus on black civil rights?
A.   National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples
B.   Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
C.   Urban League
D.   Congress of Racial Equality
E.   Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Question #11
Which was a major target of student protests in the 1960s?
A.   Sex discrimination in college admission policies
B.   The practice of granting tenure to college professors
C.   College fraternities and sororities
D.   Race discrimination in college admission policies.
E.   The lack of free speech on college campuses.
Question #12
Which of the following pairings is not correct?
A.   Thurgood Marshall-NAACP lawyer who collaborated with the lawyer on the Mendez case
B.   Paul Robeson-black entertainer who was blacklisted for his advocacy of civil rights protests
C.   Ella Baker-convened meeting that resulted in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
D.   Rosa Parks-took leadership in the bus boycott in Montgomery
E.   Martin Luther King-served at the helm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Question #13
Which statement describes the events in Little Rock., Arkansas, in 1957?
A.   The governor ordered the National Guard to prevent the integration of the school.
B.   President Eisenhower intervened and sent troops to enforce desegregation.
C.   Nine African American youth enrolled at the all-white Central High, sparking protests.
D.   The integration of Central High was the beginning of the long struggle to desegregate educational facilities in the South.
E.   All of these statements are accurate.
Question #14
How did the Freedom Riders seek to impact civil rights?
A.   They were SCLC members who traveled to Washington DC to lobby for desegration of schools in response to the strong Southern resistance.
B.   They were members of SNCC who rode motorcycles throughout the South, promoting local activism.
C.   They were an integrated group of mostly CORE members who sought to desegrate interstate bus travel.
D.   They were Mississippi Freedom Summer activists who traveled together to register southern blacks to vote.
E.   They were members of the Ku Klux Klan who sought to intimidate southern black activists.
Question #15
The most effective tool of the civil rights movement was
A.   Violence
B.   Civil disobedience
C.   Political lobbying
D.   Legislation
E.   Court room challenges to discrimination

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