Ch 24 Exam Review

What was the main provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• The Equal Opportunity Commission
• Outlawing literacy tests for voters
• Lowering the voting age to 18
• Outlawing poll taxes

Where did the worst urban riot during the 1960s occur?

• Atlanta
• Los Angeles
• Nashville
• Detroit

What was Nixon’s greatest triumph in foreign affairs?

• De-escalation of the Vietnam War
• New Economic Policy
• Relations with Communist China
• Sale of grain to the Soviet Union

Where did the deaths of three white civil rights activists encourage the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Alabama
• Michigan
• Georgia
• Arkansas

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed US troops to be sent to _____.

• West Germany
• Korea
• Vietnam
• China

Which president established Medicare?

• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Which of the following was a Supreme Court justice?

• George McGovern
• Henry Kissinger
• Barry Goldwater
• Earl Warren

George Wallace was the governor of _____.

• Alabama
• New Jersey
• Wisconsin
• Florida

In which country was one-fifth of the population killed by Communists?

• Cuba
• North Vietnam
• Cambodia
• North Korea

Which president promoted the Great Society?

• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Dwight D. Eisenhower