Cumulative SDC Challenge Exam Prep

All of the following resulted from the civil rights movement EXCEPT:

• Making segregation illegal.

• Opening the political process to more African Americans.

• Eliminating poverty for African Americans in the U.S.

• Giving African Americans a new sense of ethnic pride.

Which of the following played the most important role in bringing attention to racial problems in the South and the Civil Rights struggle?

• newspaper

• magazines

• radio

• television

Why did Chicano migrant workers establish the United Farm Workers?

• To exert influence on foreign policy

• To obtain fair wages and improve labor conditions

• To attain the right to vote in federal elections

• To change citizenship requirements

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25A

Which of the following was not advocated by the Black Panthers?

• Nonviolence

• Black Power

• Black Nationalism

• Community Development

How have these groups helped shape U.S. culture?

• By fighting against child labor

• By supporting strict immigration quotas

• By focusing on expanding civil rights for minorities

• By lobbying against equal pay for equal work

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25C

What did the Women's Liberation Movement see as its major goal in the 1960s?

• obtaining the right to vote for women

• guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work

• enabling women to stay at home as well as work

• laws that would allow women to own property

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25A

Cesar Chavez, Hector Garcia, and Betty Friedan were similar in that they all -

• were members of the Black Panther Movement

• were leaders in the rights and equal opportunity

• opposed the non-violent approach to obtaining civil rights

• had as their main goal the achievement of greater opportunities for women

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25C

Which book played a role in changing attitudes about traditional gender roles in American society?

• Common Sense

• The Jungle

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Feminine Mystique

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25C

Why were the Native Americans protesting in the late '60s and '70s?

• High rates of poverty

• High rates of prison sentences

• Stolen Land and broke treaties

• All answers are correct

What originally happened at Wounded Knee in 1890

• A celebration of Native Americans

• 300 hundred Lakota people were massacred by the U.S. Army

• Native Americans massacred 300 U.S. soldiers

• Native Americans won their rights to their land