Chapters 18-19 Flashcards
Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?
a. Jackie Robinson
b. Ralph Abernathy
c. Thurgood Marshall
a. Jackie Robinson
What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?
a. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
b. It overturned Brown II
c. It organized national “White Citizens Councils”
a. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
a. 24 hours
b. one week
c. more than a year
c. more than a year
In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation
a. the Johnson administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activists
b. the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists
c. the Kennedy administration agreed to arrest Mississippi activitists
b. the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists
Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign?
a. because of its strong support for civil rights
b. because it was considered the most segregated city in the South
c. because President Kennedy had been there
b. because it was considered the most segregated city in the South
To with city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?
a. Montgomery, Alabama
b. Little Rock, Arkansas
c. Topeka, Kansas
b. Little Rock, Arkansas
The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as
a. “Black Friday”
b. “Freedom Summer”
c. “Bloody Sunday”
c. “Bloody Sunday”
Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950’s?
a. NAACP
b. MIA
c. SCLC
a. NAACP
In a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court
a. overturned Brown v. Board of Education
b. ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education
c. implemented “The Southern Manifesto.”
b. ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education
What were Jim Crow laws?
a. They were laws that protected African Americans
b. They were laws that restricted African American voting rights in the North
c. They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races’
c. They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races’
Why were many Americans surprised when President Johnson supported civil rights?
a. As a congressman, he had authored “The Southern Manifesto”
b. He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters
c. He had never been a strong supporter of Southern traditions
b. He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters
Not long after the passage of the Voting Rights Acts of 1965, African Americans in several cities
a. rioted
b. assumed public office
c. reelected Pres. Johnson
a. rioted
What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
a. Local civil rights demonstrators declared marital law
b. There was little reaction to King’s death
c. Riots broke out
c. Riots broke out
What is an argument that people used to precent affirmative action?
a. It would remedy the legacy of racial discrimination
b. It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society
c. It would provide equal opportunities to all
b. It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society
Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a. President Kennedy
b. President Johnson
c. President Nixon
b. President Johnson
While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to
a. the Nation of Islam
b. the Black Panthers
c. the SNCC
a. the Nation of Islam
What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King’s assassination?
a. the Fair Housing Act
b. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
c. the Kerner Commission
b. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
According to Johnson, the primary role of government is to
a. protect older Americans
b. provide a decent income
c. support individual effort
c. support individual effort
The Alliance for Progress provided what kind of assistance to Latin American countries?
a. economic
b. medical
c. military
a. economic
As the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev
a. the Soviet Union ended all nuclear testing
b. nearly forty countries ended aboveground nuclear tests
c. relations between the United States and the Soviet Union worsened
b. nearly forty countries ended aboveground nuclear tests
What did President Kennedy’s domestic agenda primarily fight?
a. unemployment
b. Republicans
c. poverty
c. poverty
Which of these was a result of the Equal Pay Act?
a. Employment practices became fairer
b. Men and women immediately began receiving identical pay
c. African Americans had more jobs opportunities
a. Employment practices became fairer
The Warren Commission concluded that
a. a foreign power had called for Kennedy’s assassination
b. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s assassination
Kennedy’s military policies encouraged more funding for
a. nuclear weapons
b. the Special Forces
c. diplomatic solutions
b. the Special Forces
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to overthrow
a. Fidel Castro
b. Nikita Kruschev
c. the Batista regime
a. Fidel Castro
Kennedy prevented completion of missile bases in Cuba by approving a. naval blockade
b. diplomatic treaty
c. trade boycott
a. naval blockade
What issue led to the construction of the Berlin Wall?
a. new American intervention in Europe
b. America’s refusal to recognize a divided Germany
c. Soviet attempts to control all of Germany
b. America’s refusal to recognize a divided Germany
One component of President Kennedy’s New Frontier was
a. significantly lower taxes for all Americans
b. equality for all Americans
c. higher employment rates in many sectors
b. equality for all Americans
How did President Kennedy initially approach civil rights policies?
a. cautiously
b. boldly
c. half-heartedly
b. boldly
From his time in Congress, Johnson was known for his skills in
a. compromise
b. debate
c. legislation
a. compromise
After the assassination, President Kennedy was succeeded by
a. Lyndon Johnson
b. John Glenn
c. John Maynard Keynes
a. Lyndon Johnson
physical manifestation of Germany’s political divison
Berlin Wall
military strategy relying on both traditional and specialized units
flexible response
revolutionary leader who instituted a communist regime in Cuba
Fidel Castro
President Kennedy’s vision for America
New Frontier
program to provide basic health care to poor and disabled Americans
Medicaid
legislation that banned discrimination based on race or sex
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson’s social welfare plan
Great Society
group that invested Kennedy’s assassination
Warren Commission
strategy used by President Kennedy to improve the economy
deficit spending
John F. Kennedy’s opponent in 1960
Richard M. Nixon
What effect did the Cold War have on the American space program?
a. Competition with the Soviet Union spurred American space missions
b. The need for nuclear weapons led to less sophisticated rocket technology
a. Competition with the Soviet Union spurred American space missions
The purpose of the Civil Rights Act was to
a. initiate the War on Poverty
b. fight discrimination based on race & sex
b. fight discrimination based on race & sex
Which of these came first in Johnson’s War on Poverty?
a. Civil Rights Act
b. Economic Opportunity Act
c. Medicare
b. Economic Opportunity Act
Which of these groups benefited from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
a. inner city schools
b. private schools
c. suburban schools
a. inner city schools
What was one result of the Great Society
a. Poverty was eliminated in the United States
b. The lives of many underprivileged Americans improved
c. President Johnson’s popularity plummeted
b. The lives of many underprivileged Americans improved
The Warren Court often made rulings that
a. supported civil liberties
b. strengthened federal government
c. reflected conservative values
a. supported civil liberties
Why was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 necessary?
a. Existing American immigration policies were discriminatory
b. Too many immigrants were coming to the United States each year
a. Existing American immigration policies were discriminatory
attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots
Kerner Commission
term coined by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael
black power
best-known African American radical activist
Malcolm X
racial separation imposed by law
de jure segregation
a massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
bus trip stages by CORE to defy segregationist codes
freedom ride
banned literacy test for voter registration
Voting Rights Act of 1965
helped NAACP win desegregation case against “Ole Miss”
James Meredith
case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation
Thurgood Marshall
Explain how this section of the Fair Housing Act deals with discrimination.
No one should be taken away the privilege to rent/buy a home based on their sex, color, etc.
Given the information shown, why do you think President Kennedy demanded that construction of Soviet missiles on Cuba be immediately stopped?
He demanded it to be stopped because Cuba is right next to the U.S.A. so when the missiles are launched there will be no time for the people to prepare for the nuclear attack. More people will die if they aren’t prepared. It is also too close fro Americans early warning system to work.
In the excerpt above, what two specific activities are protected from discrimination?
a. employment and housing
b. housing and employment
c. voting and employment
c. voting and employment
