AP Final Test

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The practice of racial segregation in the American South in the twentieth century was commonly known as

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Jim Crow.

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The Federal Housing Authority and American banks excluded African American home buyers from white suburbs through a process known as

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redlining.

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What was the name of black activists' strategy for defeating American racism during World War II?

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Double V Campaign

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Who became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s?

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Thurgood Marshall

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In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that

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they denied black children “equal protection of the laws.”

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Which of the following describes Johnson's War on Poverty? Options: It permanently reestablished the old New Deal coalition first forged by FDR in the 1930s., The program was far more successful than even President Johnson could have expected., The program was Johnson's highest political priority, even more than civil rights advances., Unlike the New Deal, the program greatly altered the distribution of wealth in the United States.

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The program was Johnson's highest political priority, even more than civil rights advances.

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Johnson's Great Society program had a great deal in common with the New Frontier.

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New Frontier.

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Which of the following was a lasting outcome of Johnson's Great Society programs? Improving access to health care for the poor and elderly Americans. Decreasing racial segregation in the largest cities. Reducing the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to other countries. Ending entrenched poverty in America.

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Improving access to health care for the poor and elderly Americans.

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The presidential candidate most explicitly identified with the issue of segregation in 1968 was

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George Wallace.

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Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign for the presidency emphasized a claim to represent the "quiet voice" of "forgotten Americans."

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a claim to represent the "quiet voice" of "forgotten Americans."