AP Final Test

The practice of racial segregation in the American South in the twentieth century was commonly known as

• Jim Crow.

• neoslavery.

• the color line.

• Uncle Tom.

The Federal Housing Authority and American banks excluded African American home buyers from white suburbs through a process known as

• race baiting.

• redlining.

• gerrymandering.

• line drawing.

What was the name of black activists' strategy for defeating American racism during World War II?

• Erase the Color Line

• The Brotherhood Charter

• Double V Campaign

• The Fifth Freedom

Who became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s?

• William Hastie

• James Farmer

• Charles Hamilton Houston

• Thurgood Marshall

In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that

• segregated schools represented a misallocation of taxpayers' resources.

• they violated the principle of separation of powers.

• segregation gave the United States an unfavorable image abroad.

• they denied black children “equal protection of the laws.”

Which of the following describes Johnson's War on Poverty?

• It permanently reestablished the old New Deal coalition first forged by FDR in the 1930s.

• The program was far more successful than even President Johnson could have expected.

• The program was Johnson's highest political priority, even more than civil rights advances.

• Unlike the New Deal, the program greatly altered the distribution of wealth in the United States.

Johnson's Great Society program had a great deal in common with the

• New Frontier.

• New Deal.

• New Freedom.

• Square Deal.

Which of the following was a lasting outcome of Johnson's Great Society programs?

• Improving access to health care for the poor and elderly Americans.

• Decreasing racial segregation in the largest cities.

• Reducing the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to other countries.

• Ending entrenched poverty in America.

The presidential candidate most explicitly identified with the issue of segregation in 1968 was

• Hubert Humphrey.

• George Wallace.

• Lyndon Johnson.

• Richard Nixon.

Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign for the presidency emphasized

• his southern background and frustrations with the black civil rights movement.

• a strong commitment to continuing Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs.

• his longtime political commitment to fighting domestic communism.

• a claim to represent the "quiet voice" of "forgotten Americans."