Ch. 14 The Sixties

The Great Society was...

• A series of programs were the society would gather for meetings

• domestic programs in the U.S. launched by Lyndon B. Johnson

• domestic programs in the U.S. launched by Donald Trump

• A series of programs where other countries would gather for meetings

What was Woodstock?

• A political protest held in New York.
• A village in Vietnam, invaded by US troops.
• A gathering of workers were they would cut down trees for more wood
• An outdoor music festival attended mostly by hippies.

The President that took over for JFK when he was assassinated was:

• Johnson
• Eisenhower
• Nixon
• Ford

Court Case that overturned the 1896 Separate but Equal case was

• Brown v. Board of Education ,1954
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1964
• Tinker V. Des Moines

Who boosted Black nationalism first urging blacks to use armed self-defense and later changing to peaceful means?

• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Medgar Evers
• Thurgood Marshall

Who led the bus boycott in which Rosa Parks was involved?

• Malcolm X
• Emmit Til
• Thurgood Marshall
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President

• Eisenhower
• Kennedy
• Johnson
• Nixon

Which of the following is an example of nonviolent protest?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech before the MIA
• Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat
• the endorsement of the “Southern Manifesto”
• the NAACP’s lobbying to make lynching a federal crime

Which of the following actions would MLK Jr. support?

• segregation in the US military.
• African Americans carrying guns while protesting.
• the arrest of Rosa Parks.
• blacks sitting at an all white lunch counter waiting to be served.

The lunch counter “sit-ins” were meant to

• antagonize the restaurant owners.
• draw attention to segregation and challenge the law.
• provoke police intervention.
• protest rising food costs