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1950s/ 1960s

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Dramatic increase in birth rate, especially in the years following WWII. This was due to so many people working and making a better living.

a)

Baby Boom ­

b)

Baby Gap

c)

GI Bill

d)

Transistor

2.

Beatnik

a)

an elderly person in the 1920s who suffered financial loss.

b)

the fact or process of converting someone or something back to a former state.

c)

­ a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.

d)

This was a type of music which challenged earlier music and was popular to teenagers.

3.

Commission made by LBJ after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.The point was to investigate if someone paid for the assassination of Kennedy. This concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy on his own.

a)

Black Commission

b)

Warren Commission ­

c)

Justice Commission

d)

Johnson Commission

4.

The Supreme Court recognized as a Constitutional

right in its 1966 decision that requires suspects be informed of their Fifth & Sixth Amendment rights "prior to interrogation" if their statements are to be used against

them in court.

a)

Roe Decision

b)

Wade's Rule

c)

Miranda Rule­

d)

Equal Rights

5.

Brown V. Board of Education

a)

Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional

b)

Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.

c)

All state laws prohibiting abortions were made unconstitutional based on a woman's right to privacy

d)

Ruled that a defendant in a felony trial must be provided a lawyer free of charge if the defendant cannot afford one.

6.

_____________ rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places.

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

National Organization for Women

c)

United Farm Workers

d)

Counterculture

7.

What president assured the nation that "we shall overcome" when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He also took steps to end discrimination earlier when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Harry Truman

8.

This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Voting Rights Law 1975

c)

Civil Rights Law of 1988

d)

Civil Service Act of 1960

9.

The 24th Amendment prohibits Congress and States from...?

a)

Allowing citizens to license, produce, supply, or possess substances which are recognized as mind altering.

b)

Verifying the owner's right to their own creative work.

c)

Using any method to keep someone from voting based on ethnicity.

d)

­Abolishing an earlier quota system based on national origin and

established a new immigration policy.

10.

American civil rights lawyer, who became the first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Malcom X

c)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Earl Warren