The Freedom Riders:

• received little attention from the Kennedy administration.

• challenged the segregation of interstate bus terminals.

• rejected biracial organization in protests against segregation.

• brought their message of equality to urban ghettos of the North.

John Kennedy's New Frontier focused on:

• creating a new era of scientific and social progress.

• reforming the nation's medical system.

• rebuilding the nation's transportation infrastructure.

• providing tax breaks for poor Americans.

Situation-comedy television shows of the 1950s portrayed American families as:

• troubled and full of conflict.

• including two parents who worked in the professions.

• unimportant in American culture.

• white, polite, and happy

Which statement about the March on Washington of 1963 is NOT true?

• It began a period of uninterrupted unity within the civil rightsmovement.

• Martin Luther King's famous speech was nationally televised.

• It succeeded in transforming civil rights into a national cause.

• A biracial crowd of approximately 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial.

Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965:

• northern blacks had not beenallowed to vote in city elections.

• Lyndon Johnson had not been a strong advocate of civil rights legislation.

• the vast majority of blacks in the South were denied the right to vote.

• the Republican Party had been the lone supporter of civil rights.

Which of the following was NOT a member of SEATO?

• Australia

• Laos

• US

• Phillipines

Which event occurred in 1964?

• beginning of sit-in movement

• passage of the Civil Rights Act

• construction of the Berlin Wall

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

During the Eisenhower presidency, disarmament was set back for years after:

• the Soviet Union was left out of the Warsaw Pact agreement.

• the United States refused to apologize for the use of U-2 spy planes.

• the Soviet Union installed offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba.

• Eisenhower committed 500,000 American troops to Vietnam.

In what year did Fidel Castro win control of Cuba?

• 1963

• 1959

• 1962

• 1953

In 1963, many Americans were sickened by:

• the behavior of whites as black students attempted to enter a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

• accounts of massacres of civilians in the remote regions of South Vietnam.

• violence committed by authorities against civil rights activists in Birmingham, Alabama.

• theassassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.