Leap 2025 US History

Tinker V. Des Moines was a Supreme Court case that protected __________.

• rights for a fair trial

• free speech for students

• a president's decision to go to war

• the federal government's role to tax civilians

Which of the following best describes the impact of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"?

• It was the first time that taxes went to support social welfare.

• It was the first time private corporations were taxed to support social welfare.

• It was the largest step back from government involvement in social welfare in US history.

• It was the largest expansion of governmental involvement in social welfare in US history.

President Kennedy's plan aimed at improving the economy, fighting racial discrimination, and exploring space

• New Frontier

• Equal Pay Act

• Deficit Spending

• Space race

• Warren Commission

This outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion or nation of origin

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Civil Rights Act

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Great Society

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses

• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow

• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda

• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

8.What organization did Cesar Chaves create and what did it fight for?

• Brown Berets; Black Power

• United Farm Workers; better pay and working conditions for migrant farmers

• Black Panthers: Black power movement and defense of black communities

• American Communist Party: Inspire communist revolution in America

Which of the following best describes the 1957 events at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• Governor Faubus resisted the school’s integration with National Guard troops, and President Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce integration.

• President Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to resist the school’s integration, but Governor Faubus obtained a court order to dismiss them.

• President Eisenhower and Governor Faubus worked together to make the integration process run as smoothly as possible.

The changes shown in the chart were most directly the result of the

• enactment of voting-reform laws by these southern states

• Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education

• passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• executive branch’s resistance to protecting the civil rights of minorities

Which best completes the diagram?

• made individual rights a priority

• protected the right of the accused

• supported the rights of minorities

• expanded affirmative action programs

Event that initiated the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• the arrest of Rosa Parks

• the arrest of Cesar Chavez

• the Little Rock Nine

• The Greensboro Sit-Ins