Period 8 Test Review

Betty Friedan is best known for her

• efforts to organize migrant workers

• criticism of traditional gender roles

• role in the sit-in movement

• opposition to the war in Vietnam

Which of the following did the Black Panthers and the Malcolm X have in common in the late 1960s?

• They advocated ending segregation in the North rather than the South.

• They emphasized developing a greater sense of Black nationalism and solidarity.

• They advocated nonviolent means to achieve their goals.

• They split off from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision that

• declared racially segregated public schools inherently unequal

• established free public elementary and secondary schools in the United States

• prohibited racial discrimination in employment practices

• banned the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement

The Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka essentially reversed which of the following earlier Court decisions?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education led to-

• a campaign of "massive resistance" by white southerners

• rapid racial integration in most public schools in the South

• more voting power for African-Americans in the South

• the end of litigation as an effective strategy in the civil rights movement

The Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s was characterized by which of the following?

• Widespread support by southern Whites who had initially resisted the movement

• A sharp drop in participation and interest in voter registration drives in the rural South

• Strong support for the women’s rights movement

• A growing split between those who advocated nonviolence and those who favored more aggressive tactics to achieve civil rights

The policy of containment, justified by George Kennan’s 1947 analysis of the international situation, called for

• blocking the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence

• curbing United States foreign investment to limit involvement in world conflict

• liberating Eastern Europe form communism

• dividing Germany into zones administered by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union

A significant demographic development in the two decades following the Second World War was a

• decline in marriage and birth rates

• rapid growth of suburbs

• movement from urban to rural communities

• increasing migration from the South and West to the Northeast

Major domestic developments in the United States during President Eisenhower’s two terms included all of the following EXCEPT

• the dismantling of New Deal welfare programs

• the peaking of the postwar baby boom

• the beginning of construction of an interstate highway system

• the buildup of nuclear weapons

Which of the following led to the most significant escalation of United States military involvement in Vietnam?

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Tet Offensive

• War Powers Act

• Kent State Shooting