Unit 11: Progressivism and Civil Rights Test

What group formed by Dr. Hector P. Garcia to fight for equal rights for Mexican Americans?

• CORE

• American G.I. Forum of Texas

• NOW

• OPEC

What group founded by James L. Farmer, Jr., that used nonviolent protest to win access to public facilities for African Americans?

• CORE

• American G.I. Forum of Texas

• NOW

• OPEC

When] the University of Texas Law School is compared with . . . the new law school for Negroes, we cannot find substantial equality in the educational opportunities offered white and Negro law school students by the State. In terms of number of the faculty, variety of courses and opportunity of specialization, size of the student body, scope of the library, availability of law review and similar activities, the University of Texas Law School is superior. . . . We hold that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that [Sweatt] be admitted to the University of Texas Law School. —U.S. Supreme Court, Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

According to the excerpt, how did Texas’s law school for African Americans compare to the University of Texas Law School?

• The law school for African Americans was of better quality (superior).

• The law school for African Americans was not as good (inferior).

• The two schools were equal.

• There were only minor differences between the two schools.

Dr. Hector Garcia’s patriotism and community concern [demonstrate] the meaning of good citizenship. His many community-building [efforts] included his work as a founder and first National Chairman of the American G.I. Forum, a veterans’ organization which has done much to improve the [lives] of Americans of Mexican descent. Over the years, he has faithfully represented our government on numerous occasions, overseas and domestically. Dr. Hector Garcia is a credit to his family and community, and to all Americans. Through his efforts, based on a belief in traditional American ideals, he has made this a better country. —President Ronald Reagan, speech presenting Presidential Medal of Freedom (1984)

According to the excerpt, why was Dr. Hector Garcia awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

• His community-building efforts demonstrated good citizenship

• His work to improve the lives of Mexican Americans challenged traditional American ideals

• He founded LULAC to support Mexican American rights.

• He served as the first Mexican American in the U.S. House of Representatives.

How did the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 affect Texas’s oil industry?

• It raised oil prices, providing a boost to Texas’s oil industry

• It raised oil prices, causing Texas’s oil industry to suffer.

• It lowered oil prices, providing a boost to Texas’s oil industry.

• It lowered oil prices, causing Texas’s oil industry to suffer.

What country launched the world’s first artificial satellite in 1957, spurring the United States to develop its own space program?

• China

• the United Kingdom

• North Korea

• the Soviet Union

What invention by Jack Kilby led to the creation of personal computers, digital watches, and many other devices?

• artificial satellite

• integrated silicon circuit

• transistor

• vacuum tube

What positive economic effects did the Cold War have on Texas?

• It provided a boost to the state's defense industries. 

• Texas companies did not make planes.

• Texas companies did not make helicopters.

• Texas companies did not experiment with jets, rockets, and missilies.

What was the bitter dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union in the period following World War II called?

• the Red Scare

• the Russo-American war

• the  War on Communism

• the Cold War

What was President Johnson’s effort to better peoples’ living conditions called?

• “war on desegregation”

• “war on terrorism”

• “war on Communism”

• “war on poverty”