Domestic Policy and Reform: Great American Facts Set 9

The first amendment of the Constitution deals primarily with

• states’ rights
• property rights
• rights of the accused
• rights of self-expression

The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s was to

• establish a separate political state for African Americans
• gain passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution
• end segregation based on race
• permit unlimited immigration to the United States

In 1954, the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka advanced the civil rights movement by

• guaranteeing equal voting rights to African Americans
• banning racial segregation in hotels and restaurants
• declaring that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment
• upholding the principle of separate but equal public facilities

During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, activities of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) illustrated that

• all civil rights groups use the same tactics
• different approaches can be used to achieve a common goal
• organizational differences usually lead to failure
• violence is the best tool for achieving social change

When necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King, Jr., urge his followers to employ?

• using violence to bring about political change
• engaging in civil disobedience
• leaving any community in which racism is practiced
• demanding that Congress pay reparations to African Americans

A major goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was to

• provide government aid to business
• end poverty in the United States
• conserve natural resources
• stop immigration from Latin America

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington, D.C., 1963 Which step was taken following this speech to advance the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• desegregation of the Armed Forces
• ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
• elimination of the Ku Klux Klan
• passage of new civil rights acts

What was a lasting effect of the Watergate scandal under President Richard Nixon?

• The system of checks and balances was weakened.
• The scope of executive privilege was broadened.
• Trust in elected officials was undermined.
• Presidential responsiveness to public opinion was lessened.

President Richard Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China in 1972 was significant because it

• convinced the Chinese to abandon communism
• brought about the unification of Taiwan and Communist China
• reduced tensions between the United States and Communist China
• decreased United States dependence on Chinese exports

A major goal of the Republican Party since the 1980s has been to

• increase welfare benefits
• increase the size of the federal workforce
• reduce defense spending
• cut federal taxes