Deck 31: A Season of Discontent

Question 1

The largest segment of higher education in California is the

A)2-year colleges (junior colleges,city colleges,and community colleges).
B)California State University (CSU).
C)University of California (UC).
D)private colleges and universities.

Answer 1

2-year colleges (junior colleges,city colleges,and community colleges).

Question 2

The mission of California's 2-year community colleges is to

A)prepare students for transfer to a 4-year college.
B)award students an associate of arts or science degree.
C)train students for employment in a vocational field.
D)all of the above

Answer 2

all of the above

Question 3

During the 1960s and 1970s,San Francisco

A)lagged behind Los Angeles in developing mass transit.
B)refused to become part of the BART District.
C)developed an advanced "digital corridor" to Oakland.
D)rebelled against expanded freeway construction.

Answer 3

rebelled against expanded freeway construction.

Question 4

The growth of California's population in the 1960s

A)was greatest in the northern part of the state.
B)was concentrated in suburban communities rather than in traditional city centers.
C)reached its peak in the late 1960s.
D)all of the above.

Question 5

The essential issue in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement was

A)the Vietnam War.
B)an attempt to establish a People's Park.
C)student attempts to set up a Third World College.
D)the right of students to engage in political activities on University property.

Question 6

From 1969 through 1975,California experienced

A)a serious economic slowdown.
B)a rapid increase in the state's population.
C)few negative effects of a national economic recession.
D)an upsurge in popularity among most Americans.

Question 7

During the 1960s Los Angeles experienced a major popular outcry against the expansion and use of freeways.

Question 8

As a result of an apportionment law passed by the state legislature in 1965,control of the senate passed to

A)northern California.
B)the Central Valley.
C)southern California.
D)an alliance of Republican senators from the Bay Area.

Question 9

The hippie movement reached its peak

A)before the widespread use of LSD.
B)in the early 1970s.
C)during the "summer of love" in 1967.
D)at the time of the Free Speech Movement in 1964.

Question 10

The main reason for the decline in student radicalism in the early 1970s was

A)serious internal quarrels among student radical leaders.
B)increased government spending on higher education.
C)student satisfaction that their goals had been accomplished.
D)the gradual winding down of the Vietnam War.

Question 11

By the mid-1970s California was the most urbanized state of the United States.

Question 12

During the Vietnam War

A)the federal government applied price and wage controls.
B)a massive deflation depressed wages.
C)taxes were substantially increased.
D)more than 5,800 Californians were killed in combat.

Question 13

The college students who protested at the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Francisco

A)destroyed two police cars several other vehicles.
B)were expelled from UC Berkeley.
C)were washed down the stairs of City Hall with fire hoses.
D)all of the above

Question 14

The Master Plan for Higher Education

A)defined the mission of the various segments of the state's public colleges and universities.
B)established "re-education centers" for campus radicals.
C)mandated a sharp reduction in enrollment following the overexpansion of the 1970s.
D)provided increased funding for "advanced placement" (AP)courses in public high schools.

Question 15

Mario Savio was a

A)leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley.
B)member of the UC Board of Regents and president of the Bank of America.
C)student radical shot by police during the People's Park riot on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue.
D)chancellor of the UC Berkeley campus during the 1960s.

Question 16

The Black Panther Party

A)shunned the use of violence to protect blacks.
B)became weakened by a bitter quarrel between Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P.Newton.
C)advocated black separatism.
D)was originally formed in New York.

Question 17

By the end of the 1960s the positive popular image of California led to an upsurge in population growth.

Question 18

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution

A)banned the burning of the American flag.
B)declared English to be the nation's "official language."
C)lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
D)declared racial segregation to be against public policy.

Question 19

Two California ports which led the way in the handling of containerized cargo were

A)San Francisco and San Diego.
B)Oakland and Long Beach.
C)Santa Barbara and Monterey.
D)Santa Monica and Costa Mesa.

Question 20

An important element in the growth of the state population in the 1950s and 1960s was expansion of the

A)refugee population from Southeast Asia.
B)fertility rate.
C)defense and aerospace industries.
D)dairy industry (particularly cheese-making).

Question 21

Eldridge Cleaver was the founder of the Black Panther Party.

Question 22

The disastrous People's Park affair occurred near the campus of the University of California,Santa Barbara.

Question 23

Trace the rise and fall of radicalism in California during the 1960s.Who were the radicals,what issues did they address,and why did the movement decline?

Question 24

Explain the population shift toward southern California in the past three or four decades.What caused the shift,and what were its political effects?

Question 25

An essential factor in the spread of the hippie movement of the 1960s was the popularization of drugs such as LSD and marijuana.

Question 26

Describe the major trends in California education since World War II.

Question 27

What were the reasons for the decline in the growth rate of California's population at the end of the 1960s?

Question 28

As a result of the population boom of the 1950s and early 1960s,the "federal" system of representation in the California State Senate became grossly inequitable.

Question 29

One of the positive and permanent aftereffects of the radical era of the 1960s was raising the voting age to 21.

Question 30

California's colleges and universities balanced their budgets by hiring large numbers of underpaid part-time instructors.

Question 31

The leaders of the Free Speech Movement advocated that Berkeley student rebels use violent methods of resistance.