Deck 29: Civil Rights Uncivil Liberties

Question 1

In the 1947 Texas desegregation order there was an exception; the first grade could continue to be segregated. What was the rationale for this exception?

A) language skills
B) social acclimation
C) first grade was optional
D) All of these were rationales for the exception.

Answer 1

language skills

Question 2

What event, more than any other, catapulted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence?

A) the "I have a dream" speech
B) the Montgomery bus boycott
C) being jailed in Birmingham
D) his embrace of pacifism and nonviolence

Answer 2

the Montgomery bus boycott

Question 3

Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies, different from those of the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?

A) Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance.
B) King's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention.
C) King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.
D) King proposed nonviolent confrontation rather than the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.

Answer 3

King proposed nonviolent confrontation rather than the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.

Question 4

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to your text, "marked one of the great moments in the history of American reform." It barred discrimination in all of the following EXCEPT

A) churches.
B) hotels.
C) employment.
D) bus stations.

Question 5

The Economic Opportunity Act, according to your text, was "the most sweeping social welfare bill since the New Deal." Its provisions included all EXCEPT

A) the Job Corps.
B) the Peace Corps.
C) development loans to rural families and urban businesses.
D) a billion dollars for a new Office of Economic Opportunity.

Question 6

Which city was NOT wracked by violence and rioting in the 1960s?

A) Newark
B) Rochester
C) Seattle
D) New York

Question 7

In the election of 1964, President Johnson was opposed by the ruggedly handsome and refreshingly candid

A) Ronald Reagan.
B) Barry Goldwater.
C) David Eisenhower.
D) Theodore Green.

Question 8

Pope John instructed the Vatican II council to examine which of the following issues?

A) birth control
B) atheism
C) poverty
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 9

Harvard professor ________ began experimenting with hallucinogenic mushrooms in Mexico and soon moved on to LSD. He was eventually fired by the university.

A) Ken Kesey
B) Timothy Leary
C) Tom Wolfe
D) Hunter Thompson

Question 10

What important ideas influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.'s approach to civil rights protest? How did he put those ideas into practice?

Question 11

For what reason did the Supreme Court overturn Plessy v. Ferguson in Brown v. Board of Education?

Question 12

What were three major achievements of the civil rights movement during the 1960s?

Question 13

In what ways did the New Left and the counterculture have roots in traditional American practices and beliefs?

Question 14

In what ways did the West Coast play a prominent role in the youth rebellion of the 1960s?

Question 15

Explain the major areas of social change sparked by decisions under the Warren Court.

Question 16

Explain how the Great Society fought its war on poverty.

Question 17

Explain how drugs, sexual experimentation, and rock music influenced the counterculture.

Question 18

In what ways did the student protest movements and civil rights campaigns of the 1960s arise out of the generally placid decade of the 1950s?

Question 19

Compare the achievements and shortcomings of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Question 20

Why did the nonviolent civil rights movement give way, on the eve of its greatest successes, to more radical black nationalism and a climate of violence?

Question 21

Why did music play such a large role in the youth rebellion of the 1960s?

Question 22

In what ways did Lyndon Johnson's Great Society invite criticism of liberal reform as "tax and spend"?

Question 23

Defend or attack the use of civil disobedience as a strategy in the civil rights movement, using Martin Luther King, Jr.'s early career as an example of the technique.
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