Leap 2025 Review US History

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.

1963 law that required both men and woman to receive equal pay for equal work

• New Frontier

• Equal Pay Act

• Deficit Spending

• Space race

• Warren Commission

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

Supreme Court in the 1960's who promoted civil rights and broadened the power of the federal government.

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

• Warren Court

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal

• African Americans began to play professional sports

• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

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

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

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