The Sixties STAAR Review 2023

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What would be a good statement that reflects this photo

• The unequal status of American women during the 1960’s

• Racial segregation continued in the Southern United States

• The conflict of the Vietnam War on the home front

• The increases in college tuition during the 1960’s and 1970’s

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• B

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How did the methods advocated by the Black Panthers to achieve their goals differ from those of Dr. Martin Luther King?

• they considered the use of self defense to protect their own community

• they formed a third political party

• they were passionately anti-Communist

• They used passive resistance only

Which group achieved the right to vote in the Twenty-sixth amendment?

• Americans 18 to 20 years old

• people unable to pay poll taxes

• Mexican American women

• impoverished women

A Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Southeast Asia from November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 1975. At home, the American public was deeply divided over U.S. involvement in the war.

• War in Afghanistan

• Persian Gulf War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

According to the Domino Theory, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, then____

• neighboring countries would soon fall to Communism

• largen numbers of refugees would seek entry to the U.S.

• anti-communists forces would win it back

• the United Nations would be forced to intervene

President John F. Kennedy's promise to go to the moon by the end of the 60s during his inaugural address was said to gain public support for____

• surpassing the Soviet Union in the space race

• establishing a missile defense system

• cooperating with Communists countries in space exploration

• controlling the spread of nuclear weapons

Conditions such as the one shown in the photograph were legally ended by the

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863

• ratification of the 15th amendment in 1870

• decision in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896

• passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson