Review - Multiple Choice

Question 1

In response to the arrest of Rosa parks, African Americans :

Answer 1

Organized a bus boycott

Question 2

In Little Rock Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by:

Answer 2

Deploying the national guard

Question 3

The organization founded by student civil rights activists was:

Answer 3

SNCC

Question 4

One advantage president johnson had-that Kennedy did not-in getting the civil rights act of 1964 passed was his :

Answer 4

Intimate knowledge of how congress worked

Question 5

The purpose of the Selma March was to campaign for

Answer 5

Voting rights for African Americans

Question 6

The ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson in 1896 established:

Answer 6

The separate but equal doctrine

Question 7

Dr Martin Luther king jr believed that the way to end segregation was through

Answer 7

Nonviolent passive resistance

Question 8

The freedom riders were organized to draw attention to the south’s refusal to:

Answer 8

Integrate bus terminals

Question 9

The civil rights act of 1964 did little to:

Answer 9

Guarantee the right to vote

Question 10

The long term telegram resulted in

Answer 10

The containment policy

Question 11

After his pilgrimage to Makkah, Malcom X concluded that

Answer 11

An integrated society was possible

Question 12

Martin Luther king teaches African Americans about the use of

Answer 12

Forgiveness

Question 13

In which year was segregation of public facilities prohibited

Answer 13

1964

Question 14

Dr. King selected Selma Alabama for a protest march because

Answer 14

Sir African Americans were not registered to vote

Question 15

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to

Answer 15

Serve of the US Supreme Court

Question 16

The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for

Answer 16

About a year

Question 17

The Vietminh formed initially in Vietnam to

Answer 17

Win independence from France

Question 18

With the gulf of Tonkin resolution, congress, in effect

Answer 18

Handed it’s war powers to the president

Question 19

The purpose of agent orange was to

Answer 19

Destroy the Vietcong ability to hide in jungles

Question 20

The results of the battle at Dien Bien Phu convinced:

Answer 20

The French to withdraw from indochina

Question 21

In south Vietnam, a monk set himself on fire to protest

Answer 21

Discrimination against Buddhists

Question 22

Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam war on television helped

Answer 22

Create a credibility gap

Question 23

The pentagon papers revealed that

Answer 23

The government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam

Question 24

What was the belief that suggested if Vietnam fell to communism so would the rest of Southeast Asia

Answer 24

The domino theory

Question 25

Many college faculty and students against the Vietnam war abandoned their classes and gathered informally to discuss the issues in a new form of protest called

Answer 25

A teach-in

Question 26

During the Vietnam war, American planes dropped __________, a jellied gasoline explosive that exploded in contact

Answer 26

Napalm

Question 27

The Vietcong were

Answer 27

Communists from the south

Question 28

1963 is so significant in American history because of the following events :

Answer 28

The assassination of John F. Kennedy and the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 29

1968 is so significant in American history because if the following events

Answer 29

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the assassination of Martin Luther king jr.

Question 30

The Geneva accords did which of the following things

Answer 30

Granted Ho Chi Minh control of north Vietnam