Spring 2023 Final Review - Unit 7

In the 1960s, all of the following were reasons why youth protest movements began and reached their peak on college campuses EXCEPT...

• Communists and other radicals successfully recruited many young people in the 1960s.

• The baby boom after World War II produced Americans who were college-age by the 1960s.

• The wealth created by World War II allowed more families to send their children to college.

• The UC Berkeley free speech movement inspired other student protests in the 1960s.

Young people of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) believed all of the following EXCEPT...

• Communism was the only path to true freedom.

• Wealthy elites controlled politics.

• Wealth was unfairly divided.

• Racism was unacceptable.

All of the following historical events contributed to the rise of civil rights movement for black people in the U.S. EXCEPT...

• The speeches of Malcolm X.

• The murder of black teenager Emmet Till.

• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• The nonviolent leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

All of the following historical developments contributed to the rise of the black power movement in the 1960s and 1970s EXCEPT...

• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

• Ideas of Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X.

• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

• Persistent economic injustice against African Americans

All of the following were strategies of the civil rights movement EXCEPT...

• Policing the police.

• Sit-ins.

• Boycotts.

• Black voter registration.

All of the following were strategies of the black power movement EXCEPT...

• Meeting with elected officials and black voter registration.

• Policing the policing and armed self-defense of black communities.

• Free breakfasts for schoolchildren and health clinics in black communities.

• Expressing pride in African heritage and teaching black history.

How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s views change in his last days?

• He started to believe African Americans had to fight capitalism and militarism in addition to racism.

• He gave up on nonviolence is the only road to freedom.

• He became a communist and called for the overthrow of the government.

• He was no longer Christian and adopted the black power ideology.

How did Malcom X's views change after his pilgrimage to Muslim holy city of Mecca?

• He started to believe it was possible for black and white people to live in harmony.

• He gave up on the ideology of black power.

• He decided the ideas of the Nation of Islam was the true Muslim religion.

• He saw that there was no hope for equality between black and white people.

Which of the following were historical effects of the East Los Angeles high school student walkouts (blowouts) of 1968?

• College enrollment for Chicanos increased dramatically over the next few years.

• The East LA students succeeded in having most of their demands met.

• The Chicano activist group the Brown Berets were formed.

• The Chicano movement lost momentum after the failure of the walkouts.

Which of the following was a historical effect of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against the Vietnam War protest of 1970?

• The Moratorium helped to expose the need for change in Chicano communities.

• The Chicano activist group the Brown Berets was formed.

• Mexican American journalist Reuben Salazar won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Chicano Moratorium.

• The government agreed to temporarily stop drafting Mexican Americans into the Vietnam War.