Final Exam Review Part II

Which event allowed Martin Luther King Jr to emerge as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement?

• The "I Have a Dream" Speech

• The Greensboro Sit-in

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Freedom Rides

Appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, _____ preached a more aggressive approach

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Malcolm X

• Emmett Till

• John Lewis

Cesar Chavez used non‐violent means to organize Mexican American

• students

• voters

• factory workers

• farm workers

Which of the following happened in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• A boycott of city buses began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat

• Three young men were killed as a result of their participation in Freedom Summer

• Four young girls were killed in church bombing

• The National Guard was sent by the president to protect African American students attending school

Which of these outlawed segregation of public facilities?

• Voting Rights Act 1965

• Brown v Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

The modern feminist movement became more organized and focused after the

• passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• publication of 'The Feminine Mystique.'

• passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

• founding of the National Women's Political Caucus.

Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?

• minorities and the poor

• white, middle class families

• farmers and laborers

• business owners

In the 1960s, a goal of President John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps was to

• improve Arab-Israeli relations

• fight the spread of the AIDS epidemic

• end colonialism in Latin America and Asia

• support developing nations while containing communism

One of the goals of NOW (National Organization for Women) was to:

• Help The New Right to gain more followers

• Promote traditional roles for women

• End inflation

• Promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

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

• create social welfare programs to end poverty

• provide aid to developing nations in Africa

• assist farmers

• expand the size of the military