Civil Rights, LBJ & Vietnam Review

What were TWO goals of the Civil Rights Movement?

• the end of segregation

• enfranchisement

• disenfranchisement

• to maintain "separate but equal"

What Supreme Court case was overturned by Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS in 1954?

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCullouch v. Maryland

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Plessey v. Ferguson

Which Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools unconstitutional?

• Dartmouth College v. Woodward

• Bakke v. Regents

• Plessey v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

All of the following were forms of protests used by Southern Civil Rights advocates EXCEPT

• bus boycotts

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• riots

All of the following legislative acts were intended to stop segregation and discrimination in the US EXCEPT

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Fair Housing Act of 1968

• Clean Air & Water Acts

All of the following were representatives of the Northern Civil Rights movement EXCEPT

• Malcolm X

• Black Panthers

• 1968 Olympic track athletes

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which of the following US presidents is most associated with civil rights?

• Ronald Reagan

• Richard Nixon

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

What do Johnson's Great Society & FDR's New Deal have in common?

• widened the credibility gap between government and citizens

• decreased the size of the federal government

• increased federal spending

• ruled unconstitutional

During the Vietnam War, which TWO groups were US troops were fighting against

• the Viet Minh in North Vietnam

• the South Vietnamese citizens

• the Viet Cong in South Vietnam

• Soviet forces in North Vietnam

What gave the president unlimited war powers and escalated the Vietnam War?

• the Tet Offensive

• the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• the Commander in Chief Act

• the Khe Sahn Offensive