WorksheetsUnit 8- Civil Rights, Vietnam Test Review
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
Loans to GI's after the war enabled:
A housing construction boom
The banks to foreclose on veterans after they defaulted.
The redevelopment of the inner cities
The end of military arms buildup.
Which of the following destroyed inner cities because the tax base almost completely disappeared?
white flight
riots
redistricting
the death of John Kennedy
How many people migrated to the suburbs between 1940 and 1960?
300 million
more than 40 million
2 million
600,000
Drive in movie theatres and fast food restaurants came about because of:
The rise of the car culture
The redevelopment of the inner cities
The construction of new homes in the suburbs
The booming steel industry
The development of the Eisenhower Interstate system made which of the following possible?
The growth of the suburbs
The decline of the suburbs
The birth of a new agricultural movement
The rise of mall construction
Which of the following changed the way that politicians ran for office beginning in the 1950s and 1960s?
television
radio
the internet
front porch speeches
Which of the following became a symbol of youth culture in the 1950s:
rock and roll
drive in movie theatres
the telephone
the television
Social critics like John Galbratih with his book The Affluent Society charged that America had become
A remarkable success story
A conformist society
A society that promoted equality
The leading military in the world
The United States government's Termination Policy:
Encouraged Indians to assimilate to white American society
Pushed for the final extinction of the Indians
Helped to address the unjust treatment of Asian Americans during World War II
Terminated the Black Panther Party
The GI Bill enabled many to:
Pay of their student loans
Go to college and get a degree
Retire after they came back from the war
Operate machinery
Which event lasted for 380 days and forced desegregation?
Montgomery County Bus Boycott
Sit Ins at Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counters
The Freedom Rides
The federalization of the Arkansas National Guard
Which city was considered by many to be the most segregated city in America?
Jacksonville, Florida
Memphis, Tennessee
Mobile, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Laws that enforced segregation in America were known as:
De Facto Segregation
Jim Crow
Black Codes
Plessy v Ferguson
Which of the following organizations gave legal challenges to Jim Crow and won several major cases?
SNCC
Black Panthers
NAACP
Young Republicans
Orville Faubus fought desegregation of the school in:
Birmingham, Alabama
Little Rock, Arkansas
Memphis, Tennessee
Oakland, California
James Meredith was:
the first Black student admitted to Ole Miss amid protest, riots and the deaths of two people
the governor of Arkansas who openly opposed desegregation of the high school in Little Rock
The Black lawyer for the NAACP that fought and won desegregation of schools in Brown v. Board
The leader of SNCC
Which Birmingham city commissioner gave the authority to the police and firefighters to turn high powered hoses and the use of police dogs to attack Black protesters?
Eugene "Bull" Connor
Orville Faubus
George Wallace
Earl Warren
Which law did Lyndon Johnson sign that prohibited racial discrimination in hiring?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting RIghts Act of 1965
The 24th Amendment
The Fair Housing Commission
Blacks around the country reacted to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. by:
holding vigils to honor his memory
rioting
killing White leaders
creating the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
Which law was passed by Congress soon after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fair Housing Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Brown v. Board
Federal officials were given power to oversee voting practices in the states under which law?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 24th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board
Which body investigated and determined that President Kennedy was killed by one gunman and their was no conspiracy?
The Warren Commission
The Kerner Commission
The Arkansas National Guard
The NAACP
President Kennedy took which stance on Civil Rights early on?
He was cautious because he did not want to run afoul of the southern Democrats
He was vigorous to change laws to help Blacks regardless of the political cost
He leaned on the Republicans for help because he knew the southern Democrats
He did not give much thought to the reaction of southern Democrats, because he knew there were more northern Democrats
The Civil Rights Act was not only intended to fight discrimination based on race but also discrimination based on:
Where people were born
sex
sexual orientation
physical handicap
The lives of many poor Americans improved under:
The New Frontier
The Great Society
The Warren Commission
The Black Panther Party
The election of 1964 showed that:
Southerners were moving towards the Republican Party because of their opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Barry Goldwater was incredibly successful at appealing to southerners
Lyndon Johnson was an outsider to southerners and could not connect to them
Southerners were deeply affected by the death of Kennedy and began to vote Republican
Lyndon Johnson was known to be a bully, but also to be able to:
work towards compromise
lobby for laws
filibuster
oppose Civil Rights
Many saw Johnson circumvent (go around) the constitution:
By using the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to declare war which a president can not do.
By giving great authority to the Federal government with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
By ordering the Arkansas National Guard to desegregate Central Little Rock High.
By creating a program to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.
What did the United States Army use as a defoliant in Vietnam?
Napalm
Agent Orange
Sarin Gas
Anthrax
Vietnam was originally divided into two countries by:
The Warsaw Pact
NATO
The French Parliament
The Geneva Accords
How did President Johnson escalate the war in Vietnam?
He ordered a massive bombing campaign of North Vietnam and Cambodia known as Rolling Thunder
He sent hundreds of advisers to inspect the ongoing Vietnamese civil unrest
He ordered the CIA to kill South Vietnamese president Ngo Dien Diem
He gave hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to South Vietnam but none to North Vietnam
The Vietcong:
fought with guerilla warfare
was the army of North Vietnam
was the army of South Vietnam
was the air force of North Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, Blacks served mostly as:
infantry (combat) positions
officers
medics
cooks and porters
The surprise attack that showed that the communists were not done fighting yet was
The Tet Offensive
Rolling Thunder
Gulf Of Tonkin Incident
My Lai Massacre
President Johnson surprised America by
announcing he would run for a second term despite his declining popularity
announcing he would not run for a second term
resigning his presidency to allow Hubert Humphrey to take over
ordering an increase in American troops in Vietnam
Who won the 1968 presidential election?
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Robert Kennedy
What was a big draw to the Sunbelt?
jobs in defense and aerospace
inexpensive land
racially segregated cities
racially mixed cities
Which president pledged to end discrimination in housing "with the stroke of a pen"?
Eisenhower
Johnson
Kennedy
Nixon
How much were former detainees of Japanese Internment Camps paid starting in the 1990s?
Each one received twenty thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Each one received two thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Each one received sixty thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Each one received four hundred thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Which Supreme Court Case made it illegal for public school officials to practice religious ceremony with students?
Miranda v. Arizona
Gideon v. Wainright
Griswold v. Connecticut
Engel v. Vitale
Which Supreme Court Case struck down a state law which banned the use of contraceptives?
Griswold v. Connecticut
Gideon v. Wainright
Engel v. Vitale
Miranda v. Arizona
Which Supreme Court case ruled that the accused had a right to remain silent?
Miranda v. Arizona
Griswold v. Connecticut
Engel V. Vitale
Gideon v. Wainright
Robert Kennedy was killed by Sirhan Sirhan because:
Kennedy helped pass Civil Rights legislation
Kennedy supported Israel in the Six Day War
Sirhan Sirhan supported Nixon
Kennedy was a former Attorney General who oversaw Sirhan Sirhan's imprisonment
The protests of the war at Kent State and Jackson State Universities ended in:
The deaths of six protesters.
Nixon meeting with the protesters and pledging to end the war by the end of his first term.
a change in university policy to end student protests on campus
a change in university policy to allow student protests on campus
What "October Surprise" did Nixon have weeks before the election of 1972?
He announced he would not run for re-election
Henry Kissinger announced "Peace is a Hand" and that the war was near its end
Henry Kissinger announced he was stepping down from his position as Secretary of State
Nixon announced he was resigning to avoid impeachment proceedings
What action helped desegregate buses on interstates in the South?
Sit-Ins
Freedom Rides
The Montgomery County Bus Boycott
"Ink for Jack" protest
King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the:
March on Washington
Freedom RIdes
Sit Ins
Montgomery County Bus Boycott
The 24th Amendment
ended the poll tax
ended discrimination in housing
ended discrimination based on gender
ended voter intimidation throughout the South
