SSUSH21 US during Kennedy & Johnson Administrations

SSUSH21 US during Kennedy & Johnson Administrations

By Ashley Herlihy

Multiple Choice

The major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to:

• Establish a separate political state for African Americans

• End segregation based on race

• Gain passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• A. Permit unlimited immigration to the United States

Multiple Choice

The major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to:

• Establish a separate political state for African Americans

• Gain passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• End segregation based on race

• Permit unlimited immigration to the United States

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized attempts to achieve:

• Integration

• Black separatism

• Segregation

• Cultural diffusion

Multiple Choice

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King Jr.?

• All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

• Unjust laws must be disobeyed, and the consequences accepted peacefully

• African Americans will never gain equality. We really have no choice by have the two races separate.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

Multiple Choice

President John F. Kennedy’s most significant foreign policy failure involved the:

• Invasion as the Bay of Pigs in Cuba

• Development of the Peace Corps

• Signing of a nuclear test-ban treaty

• Sending of troops to Berlin

Multiple Choice

President John F. Kennedy attempted to deal with the situation shown in the map above by

• Bombing all the missile sites simultaneously

• Imposing a Naval blockade to isolate Cuba from the Soviet Union

• Allowing the Soviet Union to keep some missles in Cuba if the remainder were removed

• Landing an invasion force on the Cuban mainland

Multiple Choice

What was one outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?

• Cuba became a communist nation

• The United States seized control of Cuba

• The Soviet Union withdrew its nuclear missiles from Cuba

• Fidel Castro met with President John F. Kennedy

Multiple Choice

This congressional resolution provided justification for:

• William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

• Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points

• Lyndon Johnson’s Involvement in Vietnam

• Ronald Reagan’s invasion of Grenada

SSUSH21c The impact of television on American culture

Multiple Choice

According to the outline above, which major invention had the most significant impact on the events listed in the outline?

• Radio

• Movies

• Television

• Internet

Multiple Choice

The photograph depicted above is from what major Civil Rights event?

• Selma Marches

• Freedom Rides

• Greensboro Sit-Ins

• March on Washington

SSUSH21d Civil Rights Groups

Multiple Choice

The major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to:

• Establish a separate political state for African Americans

• End segregation based on race

• Gain passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• A. Permit unlimited immigration to the United States

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized attempts to achieve:

• Integration

• Black separatism

• Segregation

• Cultural diffusion

Multiple Choice

What was one result of the boycott called for in the poster above?

• Sale of lettuce and grapes increased

• Power of large land owners over their laborers grew

• Public awareness and support for the farmworkers increased

• Federal troops were sent to stop violence on the farms

Multiple Choice

“...there are two types of laws: There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.:

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The above statement is justification of the concept of:

• Cultural pluralism

• Ethnic assimilation

• Civil disobedience

• Reverse discrimination

Multiple Choice

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King Jr.?

• All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

• Unjust laws must be disobeyed, and the consequences accepted peacefully

• African Americans will never gain equality. We really have no choice by have the two races separate.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

​Civil Rights The Triumphs

Multiple Choice

The major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to:

• Establish a separate political state for African Americans

• Gain passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• End segregation based on race

• Permit unlimited immigration to the United States

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized attempts to achieve:

• Integration

• Black separatism

• Segregation

• Cultural diffusion

Multiple Choice

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King Jr.?

• All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

• Unjust laws must be disobeyed, and the consequences accepted peacefully

• African Americans will never gain equality. We really have no choice by have the two races separate.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

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