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

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