Quiz #11 Flashcards
McCarthyism primarily and fundamentally reflected
the fears and hatreds of many Americans, who were suspicious of things foreign, liberal, internationalist, or intellectual.
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?
King proposed nonviolent confrontation instead of solely relying on the NAACP’s strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.
Church membership in the 1950s
grew to more than half the population for the first time in the twentieth century.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to your text, “marked one of the great moments in the history of American reform.” It barred discrimination in all of the following EXCEPT
churches.
American life in the 1950s has been described—then and since—as a time of “consensus.” What did critics see as a dark side to this consensus?
mindless conformity
What was the biggest civil rights issue facing African Americans in the North in the 1960s?
de facto segregation
Fast Food pioneeer, who developed the concept of franchising.
Ray Kroc
What event, more than any other, catapulted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence?
the Montgomery bus boycott
Identify the author of the following statement:
”. . .the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’”
Jack Kerouac
Which of the following civil rights organizations effectively used the nation’s judicial system to implement lasting change in America?
NAACP
What finally pushed the Kennedy administration to commit to federal legislation to end segregation and protect voting rights?
the violent repression of nonviolent demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama
In 1964, black and white college students engaged in a voter-registration drive in MS known as
Freedom Summer
Truman’s postwar New Deal and Fair Deal efforts were largely frustrated by conservative opposition. But one unparalleled success was
the GI Bill.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked one of the great moments in the history of American reform. It did which of the following?
barred discrimination in public accommodations, like lunch counters and hotels
The Black Panther party believed in
armed protection and protest.
All of the following became prevalent in 1950s America EXCEPT:
sexual revolution
The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka concerned
racial segregation in public schools.
Just before leaving office in 1961, President Eisenhower warned Americans of the
dangers of the military-industrial complex.
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” – one day, there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. . . I have a dream today!”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Identify the author of the following statement:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
President Eisenhower
Which stereotype of women was most common in the 1950s?
domestic and motherly
Identify the author of the following statement:
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the early 1960s, Malcolm X was a leading minister in the
Nation of Islam
The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka concerned
racial segregation in public schools.
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“We, the Black Panther Party, see ourselves as a nation within a nation. . . We do not fight racism with racism. We fight racism with solidarity. . . We don’t use our guns, we have never used our guns to go into the white community to shoot up white people. We only defend ourselves against anybody.”
Bobby Seale
