Test #11: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Modern US

The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s 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 into the US

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

• integration

• black separatism

• segregation

• cultural diffusion

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

• all Americans have a right to equality and 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 have no choice but to have the two races separate

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement, social and political equality later

Martin Luther King Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he

• led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

• refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man

• challenged the authority of the Supreme Court

• was elected as the first southern black congressman

The main reason the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the literacy test as a voting qualification was that

• different standards of literacy had been applied to different groups of voters

• a majority of voters were unable to read election ballots

• technology had made voter literacy unnecessary

• the cost of achieving literacy was too high

An analysis of the civil rights leadership of Dr. King, Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X would show that each

• received his greatest support from African Americans in the rural South

• believed in the philosophy of passive resistance

• rejected help from white civil rights supporters

• chose a different method to try

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

• control economic inflation

• end poverty in the United States

• repeal several New Deal programs

• return responsibility for welfare programs to the states

In 1965, Congress established Medicare to

• provide healthcare for the elderly

• assist foreign nations with their health problems

• grant scholarships to medical students

• establish universal healthcare

President Lyndon Johnson’s use of United States forces to fight in the Vietnam War was an action that

• resulted in a decisive victory for the United States

• led to the overthrow of the communist government in Vietnam

• received increasing support from the American public as the war went on

• raised the issue of the limits of the President’s power to make war

What was one domestic result of the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War?

• improved relations between youth and the older generation

• increased faith in militarism as a foreign policy

• increased attention to social programs

• greater public distrust of government policies